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Chess master and co-founder of Chess.com, Danny Rensch

Chess.com cofounder says it took a pinch of delusion to bring the traditional game online—and it’s a ‘requirement for every successful entrepreneur’

Chess.com cofounder Danny Rensch says that “necessity breeds genius.” An onslaught of life crises and a dash of self-delusion pushed him to create the platform beloved by 235 million users.

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Chess.com cofounder says it took a pinch of delusion to bring the traditional game online—and it’s a ‘requirement for every successful entrepreneur’

Future of Work

The fastest athletes in the world can botch a baton pass if trust isn’t there—and the same is true of AI, Blackbaud exec says

Creative workers won’t be replaced by AI—but their roles will change to become ‘directors’ managing AI agents, executives say

‘Godmother of AI’ says degrees are less important in hiring than how quickly you can ‘superpower yourself’ with new tools

40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate

Success

Ryan Serhant, a real estate mogul who’s met over 100 billionaires, reveals his best networking advice: ‘Every room I go into, I use the two C’s‘

Apple CEO Tim Cook out-earns the average American’s salary in just 7 hours—to put that into context, he could buy a new $439,000 home in just 2 days

40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate

Hinge CEO says he bribed students with Kit Kats to get the $550-million-a-year business off the ground: ‘I had to beg and borrow a lot‘

C-Suite

Ryan Serhant, a real estate mogul who’s met over 100 billionaires, reveals his best networking advice: ‘Every room I go into, I use the two C’s‘

Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week

Apple CEO Tim Cook out-earns the average American’s salary in just 7 hours—to put that into context, he could buy a new $439,000 home in just 2 days

How classic digital transformation lessons apply to AI—and what’s different this time around

Workplace Culture

Creative workers won’t be replaced by AI—but their roles will change to become ‘directors’ managing AI agents, executives say

Amtrak is slashing executive bonuses to give out $900 apiece to over 18,000 rank-and-file workers

DOGE isn’t dead—it’s been absorbed into the bloodstream of the government, federal employees say

Sheryl Sandberg breaks down why it’s a troubling time for women in the workplace right now

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AI’s hidden recession: How fewer jobs and cultural backlash create a governance crisis

The broken narrative of higher education bears little resemblance to students’ real lives

Success doesn’t kill insecurity—even billionaires and Oscar-winners beg for feedback between takes, MasterClass CEO says

Data-center operator CoreWeave is a stock-market darling. Bears see its finances as emblematic of an AI infrastructure bubble

U.S. Olympic gold medalist Hezly Rivera shares her secret to switching her mindset to calm mode before performing

Top housing exec rips Americans who ‘want things that we don’t want to pay for’ and neglect the blue-collar trades at our peril

MacKenzie Scott has donated more than $19 billion—but it’s barely made a dent in her net worth because of the power of Amazon shares

The housing affordability crisis is so bad that the average American first-time homebuyer is 40 years old

Fortune 500 Power Moves: Which executives gained and lost power this week, Nov. 1-7, 2025

Netflix cofounder says he stopped work at 5 p.m. every Tuesday for 30 years to stay ‘sane,’ no matter the crisis: ‘Nothing got in the way of that’

Not all degrees are a waste of time and money: This ‘life skills’ university has become a magnet for the Wall Street elite

There’s no real difference between lab-grown and natural diamonds, jewelry CEO argues, besides its raw material: ‘Millennials are smarter than that’

Ten years ago, millennials bought first homes at 31. Now, Gen Z may wait until 40 as the housing market grows increasingly out of reach

Zohran Mamdani visits Puerto Rico for annual NYC political power broker summit

‘They ain’t worried about the miners or people in West Virginia or coal miners anywhere’: Black lung sufferers despair over DC’s distance

Scott Galloway says it’s actually good to have imposter syndrome: ‘If you’re not in rooms you don’t deserve to be in, you’re not trying that hard’

Meet a 32-year-old who quit her job a year ago and is still looking after 700 applications and counting in the ‘low-hire, low-fire’ job market

Mark Zuckerberg says ‘The Social Network’ nailed his wardrobe: ‘Every single shirt or fleece they had in that movie is a shirt or fleece that I own’

Gen Alpha won’t ever have to write an email when they join the workforce in 2030, new research reveals—they’ll be sending voice notes to their boss instead

Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package and the race to the bottom among states with weak corporate governance laws

The way to get middle managers to embrace AI? Invest in people, not technology, first

Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire: Tesla shareholders approve unprecedented $1 trillion pay package—despite disapproval from investors and even the Pope

Laid off? Tech recruiting exec shares 4 tips for getting back on your feet—and on the job market

Jamie Dimon predicts AI will shorten the workweek: ‘My guess is the developed world will be working three and a half days a week’

Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give away $600 billion to charity—but the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett era of philanthropy may be over

‘October’s pace of job cutting was much higher than average’: Definitive layoff report reveals ‘DOGE impact’ on labor market

Why this company says the state of AI security is ‘grim’

Zohran Mamdani is New York’s first millennial Mayor—experts share how the young leader’s style will differ from his boomer predecessors

Jamie Dimon says he still reads customer complaints himself because his staff filters too much: ‘The bureaucracy does want to control you’

An apology to Gen Z, from the Harvard scholar behind ‘Bowling Alone’ book: ‘You didn’t cause the problem, we caused this problem’

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