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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.

By Emma Burleigh

December 14, 2025

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America’s richest generation is only getting richer. Their wealth has soared over the past four decades, leaving millennials and Gen Z in the dust

New Nestlé CEO joined the company straight out of college—like Mary Barra and Doug McMillon, he climbed all the way to the top at a single company

Unemployed graduates are flocking to this business degree to stand out in the current job market. Unlike most MBAs it requires zero work experience

Manhattan’s offices are on track to be just as busy as pre-pandemic years as Wall Street and tech companies drag workers back to the office

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals the 5 AI prompts he uses that can ‘supercharge your everyday workflow’

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says his company has cut 4,000 customer service jobs as AI steps in: ‘I need less heads’

Naomi Osaka’s Labubu obsession shines at the U.S. Open

CEOs really are ditching Gen Z ‘first timers’ for AI, career coach to the Fortune 500 warns—here’s how grads can still land work

How Accenture CEO Julie Sweet communicated a major restructuring to 770,000 employees across 120 countries without ever sending a memo

How the midlife crisis was replaced by a decadelong rise in ‘young worker despair’ in the U.S.—and what it means for Gen Z

Will the future of work for Gen Z include space? Tech leaders predict space work and travel could be just a decade away

Business loses $2 billion a day from office rudeness, study says. Is your workplace ‘civil?’

Accenture CEO weighs in on why so many AI projects have failed with 3 red flags to watch out for

Luxury real estate star Fredrik Eklund reveals the latest trend for wealthy buyers: at-home ‘biohacking’

Gen Z are eyeing up ‘secure’ healthcare jobs to AI-proof their careers, but be warned: chiropractors, doctors and paramedics are the unhappiest workers

Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks CEO grew up in ‘survival mode’ selling newspapers and bean pies—now his chain sells a $12 cheesesteak every 58 seconds

You could buy a $1 billion Powerball ticket this Labor Day weekend

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI will ‘probably’ bring 4-day work weeks: ‘Every industrial revolution leads to some change in social behavior’

‘AI shame’ is running rampant in the corporate sector—and C-suite leaders are most worried about getting caught, survey says

Gen Z are dipping into their retirements, skipping meals and selling their belongings just to get by, new reports find

$16 billion Twilio CEO wakes at 4:30 a.m., works Sundays and runs laps around his house between meetings to blow off steam

As CEOs predict AI will rival humans in 5 years, Shark Tank’s Daniel Lubetzky tells Gen Z to get off TikTok and study Greek philosophers to get ahead

Nvidia’s China-based rival posts 4,300% revenue jump as chipmaker’s earnings reported no H20 chip sales to the country

A tax company in Kansas City gave thousands of workers the afternoon off to celebrate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement

Forget 40 hours: The Dutch get their work done in just 32 hours a week—and women made it possible

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet says there’s one thing you should never do if you get offered a big job you don’t feel ready for

Flexible work offers competitive advantage to Best Small and Medium Workplaces

Billionaire Larry Ellison underwrote the richest recruiting flip in college football history

Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House, and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career.’ He founded Reddit

‘Hushed hybrid’: Even as RTO mandates grow, workers still aren’t fully showing up to the office—a sign managers are too burnt out to enforce policies

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