Sydney Lake

Sydney Lake

Sydney Lake is an associate editor at Fortune, where she writes and edits news for the publication's global news desk. At Fortune, she previously wrote about real estate, housing, and higher education. Before joining Fortune, Sydney served as the assistant editor of Virginia Business magazine and interned on the production desk at CQ Roll Call. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and leadership studies from the University of Richmond and her master's degree in digital media management from the University of Southern California.

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Red Lobster CEO sitting in restaurant

Red Lobster’s 36-year-old CEO started as a Goldman Sachs intern. He reveals 3 bold moves he’s cooking up for the seafood chain’s comeback

Asian woman looking at cosmetics

Trade wars have Americans so nervous even six-figure earners are flocking to dollar stores

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 28: Spencer Rascoff speaks onstage during WSJ’s Future of Everything 2025 at The Glasshouse on May 28, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Match Group CEO says Gen Z is different and he’s making drastic changes to Tinder to keep up

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 30: Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Musk, who served as an adviser to Trump and led the Department of Government Efficiency, announced he would leave his role in the Trump administration to refocus on his businesses. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Elon Musk eviscerates Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ calling it a ‘massive, outrageous, pork-filled’ spending plan and a ‘disgusting abomination’

Spanx founder Sara Blakely

6 ‘unhinged’ things Sara Blakely did that ultimately shaped the success of her $1.2 billion Spanx empire

Junior analysts, beware: Your coveted and cushy entry-level Wall Street jobs may soon be eliminated by AI

Walmart CEO speaking

Walmart CEO started his career unloading trailers at the warehouse—he says raising his hand led to his success

Brandon Sawalich is the president and CEO of Starkey.

A $1 billion hearing aid company is reinventing itself using AI—to destigmatize hearing loss while offering the ultimate personal assistant

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 29: Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, speaks during the WSJ’s Future of Everything 2025 at the Glasshouse on May 29, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Travel & Leisure

United’s CEO proclaims the budget airline model is dead and argues they ‘screw the customer’

customers walking into and out of Kohl's store

Kohl’s shocks investors reporting a not-too-bad quarter even after it fired its CEO just 100 days into the job

Chris Rogers of Instacart

Meet Fidji Simo’s replacement as Instacart CEO: A former Apple director who helped drive iPhone market adoption

Young woman is using smartphone and smiling while taking a break from unpacking cardboard boxes in her new apartment

Cash-strapped recent college grads: These are 10 of the most affordable U.S. cities to live that also have low unemployment rates

three women in panel discussion on stage at conference

Gaming industry needs more women in its ranks to become more ethical and less toxic, industry executives say

women speaking in panel on stage at a conference

There are more women who move to Riyadh to create a new business than natives who start companies there, startup founder says

Google CEO Sundar Pichai during the press conference after his meeting with Polish PM Donald Tusk at Google for Startups Campus In Warsaw in Warsaw, Poland on February 13, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says there won’t be just one winner in the AI race