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Preston Fore is a reporter at Fortune covering success, with a focus on education, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. Since joining the company in 2023, he has written extensively on career trends, Gen Z in the workforce, and the evolving higher education landscape. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Preston graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in global studies and journalism.
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Success
Gen Z men studying an MBA will see a 75% salary bump—that’s 25% more than women with the same qualification
By Preston ForeJune 2, 2025
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Success
This CEO went from bagging groceries at Publix to founding a $3.4 billion cyber company—after skipping the Ivy League and teaching himself to code
By Preston ForeJune 1, 2025
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Barack Obama says work-life balance isn’t real for successful people
By Preston ForeMay 30, 2025
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Nvidia CEO reveals the person who will replace you thanks to AI—he warns, ‘every job will be affected, and immediately’
By Preston ForeMay 29, 2025
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Denny’s CEO says she starts any new gig by ‘walking around with a little journal’ and asking staff the same questions
By Preston ForeMay 28, 2025
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Success
High school students are totally behind and addicted to their phones—it’s making teachers crazy and driving them to quit
By Preston ForeMay 25, 2025
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Success
Shark Tank’s newest star gives Gen Z grads a reality check—that they need to ‘wake up earlier and stay up later’ to achieve their dreams
By Preston ForeMay 23, 2025
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The CEO of MNTN got his start teaching himself how to code: He just took the company public with Ryan Reynolds
By Preston ForeMay 22, 2025
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Gen Z creators may soon have a new $20,000-paying side-gig thanks to this new Instagram feature
By Preston ForeMay 21, 2025
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Forget becoming a self-made billionaire—working for others is a fast-track to ultra-wealth like Tim Cook and Satya Nadella
By Preston ForeMay 20, 2025
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Gen Zers are missing out on hundreds of thousands in free money by ignoring this company policy
By Preston ForeMay 18, 2025
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Success
Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg started their own schools—but fixing the education system is harder than it looks
By Preston ForeMay 17, 2025
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Millionaire music icon Usher says degrees still matter—but that the piece of paper won’t actually give Gen Z ‘power’
By Preston ForeMay 16, 2025
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One computer science course in high school can boost Gen Z’s future earnings by 8%—regardless of what career path they go down after graduating
By Preston ForeMay 15, 2025
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AMD CEO Lisa Su tells Gen Z grads ‘don’t walk, run’ towards the hardest challenges at their workplace for a fast track to promotions
By Preston ForeMay 14, 2025
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