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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
Linda Yaccarino spent 2 years as Elon Musk’s X CEO. She says his ‘insatiable sense of urgency’ is the secret to his trillionaire success
By Preston ForeOctober 7, 2026
Warren Buffett
Success
Retired Warren Buffett now spends his evenings glued to YouTube—watching Glenn Close clips, 1950s commercials, and Uzbekistani talent shows
By Preston ForeOctober 6, 2026
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Success
Despite being decades away from retirement, Gen Z is the most worried that AI will derail their financial future—51% fear it will cut their nest egg
By Preston ForeOctober 5, 2026
Steve Wozniak
Success
Apple’s Steve Wozniak says he cofounded the tech giant after 5 rejections from HP—not to ‘make money.’ For years, his paycheck was just $50
By Preston ForeOctober 3, 2026
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Success
‘We need to trust our employees’: This billionaire CEO went from counting cars in the parking lot past 6pm to embracing hybrid work
By Preston ForeOctober 3, 2026
Ben Affleck wearing a suit jacket, behind a purple background
Success
Ben Affleck says predictions that AI will wipe out jobs—or kill us all—are just propaganda: ‘In fact, more people technically are being employed’
By Preston ForeOctober 2, 2026
Stacy Dillow, executive vice president and chief people officer at HPE
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Fortune 500 chief people officers say AI has killed org charts, and employees who will thrive need to ‘unlearn’
By Preston ForeOctober 1, 2026
Ynon Kreiz speaking
Success
Paramount’s new co-CEO once hired a barista he met at a café with no résumé. His advice to Gen Z: ‘Look up and make eye contact’
By Preston ForeOctober 1, 2026
Linda Hubbard
Success
Carhartt CEO warns schools are steering Gen Z students away from a lucrative career path: Skilled trades can pay 32% more
By Preston ForeSeptember 30, 2026
Construction workers build out the rooftop chillers and water lines feeding them atop Dallas TX4, which is under construction at the NTT Data center campus in Garland, Texas
Success
Google data center lead says ‘hundreds of thousands’ of skilled trade jobs are open across the U.S.—and they’re ‘just waiting to be filled’
By Preston ForeSeptember 29, 2026
Josh Simon headshot
Success
He was Disney’s most junior employee when he rewrote the CEO’s op-ed. Now he’s a CEO, with advice for Gen Z: ‘Don’t really ask for permission’ 
By Preston ForeSeptember 29, 2026
Elon Musk in the Oval Office
Success
Elon Musk says money might ‘not even matter’ in the future—but tells Gen Z to study arts, sciences, and engineering to know what to ask AI and robots
By Preston ForeSeptember 28, 2026
Ethan Thornton views production of the Glide, a high-altitude glider.
Newsletters
How a Gen Zer built a $3.7 billion defense tech startup backed by Sequoia
By Preston ForeSeptember 28, 2026
Jane Fraser
Success
Citi CEO Jane Fraser swears by Warren Buffett’s golden rule for dealing with conflict at work: ‘Never, ever respond to that email in anger’
By Preston ForeSeptember 26, 2026
Peter Thiel
Success
Peter Thiel says Germany has a ‘fear of success’ problem—and it explains why entrepreneurs don’t scale like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg
By Preston ForeSeptember 25, 2026
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