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Emma Burleigh

Emma Burleigh is a reporter at Fortune, covering success, careers, entrepreneurship, and personal finance. Before joining the Success desk, she co-authored Fortune’s CHRO Daily newsletter, extensively covering the workplace and the future of jobs. Emma has also written for publications including the Observer and The China Project, publishing long-form stories on culture, entertainment, and geopolitics. She has a joint-master’s degree from New York University in Global Journalism and East Asian Studies.

Hiring manager interviews applicant
Success
Shocked Zillow CEO says even senior hires don’t do their homework for interviews: ‘They’re asking pretty basic questions that you could answer in 10 minutes on Google’
By Emma BurleighFebruary 18, 2026
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Success
Airbnb CEO says AI is ‘the best thing that ever happened to’ his company—he warns other founders: ‘If you don’t disrupt yourself, someone else will’
By Emma BurleighFebruary 17, 2026
Podcast host Mel Robbins
Success
Mel Robbins says feeling stuck ‘doesn’t mean you’re broken’—it’s the biggest mindset mistake people over 40 make
By Emma BurleighFebruary 16, 2026
Keke Palmer
Success
Keke Palmer became a millionaire at 12—but even with $1 million, she’d still only pay $1,500 in rent and drive a Lexus: ‘I live under my means’
By Emma BurleighFebruary 15, 2026
Denise Martin in front of her granny pod
Success
Meet the grandmother living out of a 400-ft ‘granny pod’ to save money and help with child care—it’s become an American ‘economic necessity’
By Emma BurleighFebruary 15, 2026
Actress Jennifer Garner
Success
Actress Jennifer Garner just took her $724 million organic food empire public. She started her career making just $150 weekly as a ‘broke’ understudy
By Emma BurleighFebruary 13, 2026
Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of Google DeepMind
Success
The CEO of Google DeepMind juggles another job as the founder of a multibillion-dollar startup by starting a second workday at 10 p.m.
By Emma BurleighFebruary 12, 2026
Kroger CEO Greg Foran
Success
Meet the serial CEO taking over Kroger: He started his career stacking supermarket shelves and went all in on retail at 17 thanks to his persistent mom
By Emma BurleighFebruary 11, 2026
Head coach Mike MacDonald
Success
Seahawks head coach turned down a cushy career in finance at KPMG for a football internship—12 years later, he won the Super Bowl at 38
By Emma BurleighFebruary 10, 2026
Sam Darnold #14 of the Seattle Seahawks
Success
Super Bowl champion Sam Darnold says his plumber dad played with him every day after work, no matter how tough his day was—and that taught him resilience
By Emma BurleighFebruary 9, 2026
Joanna Griffiths, the founder and president of Knix
Success
The founder of $400 million company Knix sees a hypnotherapist to ‘rewire’ her brain and work through her fear of failure
By Emma BurleighFebruary 8, 2026
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
Success
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky says CEOs don’t have to be ‘miserable’—that’s why he got rid of emails and banned meetings before 10 a.m.
By Emma BurleighFebruary 7, 2026
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Success
Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos have seen more than $66 billion swiped from their net worths since the start of this year as AI-driven slump sees tech billionaires’ wealth free-fall
By Emma BurleighFebruary 6, 2026
Nestlé CEO Philipp Navratil
Success
Nestlé’s CEO drinks 8 coffees a day, but says Gen Z staffers are his secret to staying sharp by ‘learning constantly’
By Emma BurleighFebruary 5, 2026
Investing icon Kevin O'Leary
Success
Kevin O’Leary blasts attacks on billionaire entrepreneurs as a ‘huge mistake’—He says they don’t get enough credit for the jobs they’ve created
By Emma BurleighFebruary 4, 2026
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