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Daniel Kjellén is CEO and co-founder of Freda

I sold to Visa for $2 billion. I could be on a beach right now, but I’m risking my own money to solve the problem that held my first company back

Listen to European founders talk over dinner after a few glasses of wine, and you’d think the U.S. is a gung-ho frontier. The reality is different.

By Daniel KjellénOctober 24, 2026

Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs to focus on AI. Now it’s promising 30,000 entry-level roles in the UK by 2030

The Amazon Youth Promise is geared toward young workers, but will also provide job training to people “not in education, employment or training.”

By Kristen Parisi and HR BrewOctober 23, 2026

Anthropic joins Meta and OpenAI’s personal AI assistant race with Claude Duet

Claude Duet gives existing subscribers a personal assistant as Anthropic races to secure a place in users’ daily routines.

By Wen ShaoOctober 23, 2026

Let 17-year-olds change their minds. In the age of AI, it’s their best career move

Colleges make 17-year-olds bet their futures on a guess. AI just raised the stakes.

By Matt vandenBergOctober 23, 2026

More in Success

As 570,000 workers watched their jobs get culled this year, Torani CEO says ‘layoffs are a choice’—and that her company has never cut workers en masse

Melanie Dulbecco, the CEO of flavored syrup giant Torani, doesn’t buy the idea that laying off employees is always necessary.

By Emma BurleighOctober 23, 2026

Elizabeth Holmes documentary maker Nathan Fielder started out as a broker. He quit because it was ‘depressing’ and is now making millions

“You Can See Everything” is set to make $25 million in its second week. But its codirector, Nathan Fielder, had a fairly humble start in life.

By Preston ForeOctober 23, 2026

Claire Smilow helped BoxGroup earn a roughly $1 billion return on Cursor. Now she’s scouting college campuses for the next generation of founders

BoxGroup partner Claire Smilow delivered a massive return for her firm after betting early on Gen Z–led company Cursor. She’s scouting the next big thing at Harvard and MIT.

By Emma BurleighOctober 22, 2026

Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ was asked to give advice to Gen Z: ‘Buy half the house you can afford,’ and ‘If it flies or floats, rent it’

“Art in the eye of the beholder is cheap,” wrote Burry.

By Eleanor PringleOctober 23, 2026

More in C-Suite

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

See which Fortune 500 companies are making changes to their C-suite ranks.

By Fortune EditorsOctober 23, 2026

Companies risk a CFO talent crisis by automating junior finance roles

As AI replaces the entry-level work that trained generations of finance chiefs, CFOs are rethinking how they hire and develop junior talent before the pipeline runs dry.

By Sam BirchallOctober 23, 2026

Over 1,000 analysts competed to pitch Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and execs their ideas for community impact—and top teams win $650K for charity

Goldman Sachs has put $6 million of philanthropic grants “in the hands of our analysts,” one exec says.

By Emma BurleighOctober 22, 2026

Chick-fil-A hit $23.9 billion in sales while closed every Sunday. Its CEO explains why that won’t change, even if it costs the chain billions

Andrew Cathy told NBC’s Today the 80-year-old policy is “just too important” to reconsider, even as the family-owned chain outsells nearly every rival while open just six days a week.

By Heather OcchinoOctober 22, 2026

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Nearly half of retail workers say they were abused by customers in the past year—and more than 1 in 5 have skipped shifts to stay safe

Many retail workers also say they think their employers placed a higher priority on inventory safety than worker safety.

By Andrew Adam Newman and Retail BrewOctober 23, 2026

Newport Restaurant Group is 100% owned by its workers—and has paid them $33 million since 1995: ‘Nobody else gets the benefit’

Bartender Andy Staane has spent 24 years at Newport Restaurant Group, where every employee is an owner. As baby boomers prepare to hand off up to $5 trillion in small businesses, its CEO says ESOPs are a “proven model.”

By Muskaan ArshadOctober 21, 2026

‘An army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention’: Anthropic calls human attention the bottleneck in the botsitting world to come

Eighty percent of Claude session delays result from agents waiting on human input, and the median Anthropic employee spends 20% more time in meetings than a year ago.

By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezOctober 19, 2026

Deloitte U.S. human capital chief warns: Broken trust cuts employee motivation by more than half

Deloitte researchers have found that high-trust organizations have stronger engagement. But if one factor erodes, and it can start to collapse.

By Amanda GerutOctober 20, 2026