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.
SuccessA 25-year-old content creator turned a layoff into an opportunity. Now an influencer on LinkedIn, she says the platform can be more profitable than TikTok
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SuccessVanna White only works 34 days a year filming ‘Wheel of Fortune’—and was making a $3 million salary
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SuccessChina’s six-year-olds are already being offered AI classes in school in a bid to train the next generation of DeepSeek founders
By Emma BurleighMarch 10, 2025
SuccessThis 25-year-old was fired from her day job—Now, she and others are their own boss with the help of AI tutors
By Emma BurleighMarch 9, 2025
SuccessCEO of $4.2 billion tech giant says defying Silicon Valley’s ‘move fast and break things’ mantra was essential to growing his business
By Emma BurleighMarch 7, 2025
SuccessMrBeast is the world’s top YouTuber with an $85 million empire—but he says the average person ‘would be miserable’ living his life
By Emma BurleighMarch 6, 2025
SuccessAmazon CEO says he’s cutting middle managers because they want to ‘put their fingerprint on everything.’ That’s music to the ears of Gen Z
By Emma BurleighMarch 4, 2025
SuccessFrom dorm rooms to boardrooms: This U.S. college has created more billionaires than anywhere else, including Mark Zuckerberg and Jamie Dimon
By Emma BurleighMarch 4, 2025
SuccessPoshmark’s CEO lets his Gen Z workers choose what he wears—he says it helps him ‘immerse’ into the next generation’s thinking
By Emma BurleighMarch 3, 2025
SuccessGen Z men are turning to the kitchen instead of college—they can make $170,000 without the burden of student debt
By Emma BurleighMarch 2, 2025
SuccessBillionaires earning $10 billion per day in January are suddenly watching their net worth get wiped out—Elon Musk has lost $90 billion alone
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