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‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon

“The whole enterprise could’ve been extinguished then,” Bezos recalled.

By Dave SmithDecember 15, 2025
Gen Z workers collaborate in the office.
PwC U.K. is giving Gen Z grads ‘resilience’ training in their first 6 months on the job, to get better at handling criticisms and office politics
By Emma BurleighDecember 15, 2025
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Meetings are not work, says Southwest Airlines CEO—and he’s taking action, by blocking his calendar every afternoon from Wednesday to Friday 
By Preston ForeDecember 15, 2025
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he went to ‘night school’ for an hour every day with Barack Obama and even turned in homework
By Preston ForeDecember 15, 2025
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Sorry, six-figure earners: Elon Musk says that money will ‘disappear’ in the future as AI makes work (and salaries) irrelevant
By Orianna Rosa RoyleDecember 15, 2025
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SuccessEventbrite’s CEO walked away from Hollywood to build a $225 million ticketing company with her own money: ‘If it’s a disaster, we’ll just be broke’
By Emma BurleighJuly 30, 2025
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SuccessGen Z can retire as millionaires, ‘Shark Tank’ star Rashaun Williams says—they just need to quit doom spending and follow his 3 tips
By Preston ForeJuly 30, 2025
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By The Associated PressJuly 30, 2025
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SuccessNvidia’s soaring stock generated two more billionaires in Jensen Huang’s C-suite
By Eleanor PringleJuly 30, 2025
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SuccessThe CEO of Brooks Running calls Warren Buffett boss. He also calls him ‘the GOAT of capitalism’
By Nick LichtenbergJuly 30, 2025
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SuccessCaitlin Clark’s WNBA rookie card sold for a record-breaking $660,000 at auction—it’s more than she’ll earn from the job in four years
By Emma BurleighJuly 29, 2025
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SuccessUnion Pacific’s CEO started as a teen track worker—now he’s leading an $130 billion empire and says Gen Z interns need curiosity to be like him
By Preston ForeJuly 29, 2025
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By Orianna Rosa RoyleJuly 29, 2025
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Workplace CultureGen Z says they’re into ‘conscious unbossing.’ Something else is actually playing out in the workplace, Glassdoor says
By Nick LichtenbergJuly 29, 2025
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AIMany students in China are choosing to learn AI mostly out of ‘guilt or shame,’ not because they enjoy it, study finds
By Sasha RogelbergJuly 29, 2025
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C-SuiteCompetitive cricketer turned assistant brand manager is now heading a $368 billion giant. Meet P&G’s new CEO Shailesh Jejurikar
By Amanda GerutJuly 28, 2025
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SuccessGoogle CEO is the newest billionaire: He tells Gen Z the secret to success is putting yourself in uncomfortable situations
By Preston ForeJuly 28, 2025
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SuccessNvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s created more billionaires in his team than any CEO in the world
By Emma BurleighJuly 28, 2025
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By Eleanor PringleJuly 28, 2025
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SuccessAI is driving mass layoffs in tech, but it’s boosting salaries by $18,000 a year everywhere else, study says
By Nino Paoli and Nick LichtenbergJuly 27, 2025
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SuccessDenny’s CEO asks potential hires these questions at the interview—if they can’t answer, it’s an immediate red flag
By Preston ForeJuly 27, 2025
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By Nick LichtenbergJuly 27, 2025
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Success‘Shark Tank’ icon Kevin O’Leary reveals the 3 things he looks for when investing his millions into a founder
By Emma BurleighJuly 27, 2025
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SuccessDelta’s struggles with the airport lounge and the angst of the upper middle class in the age of ‘elite overproduction,’ explained
By Nick LichtenbergJuly 26, 2025
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SuccessIn his 20s, the boss of this 4,100-employee Fortune 500 company tried to refuse a promotion to CEO—his advice to new grads is stay ‘humble’
By Eleanor PringleJuly 26, 2025
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SuccessGen Z content creators are bringing in millions from their side hustles—and questioning the need for a college degree
By Meredith HoJuly 26, 2025
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SuccessYouTube’s founders split over $650 million when they sold to Google in 2006—had they held out, they could have taken a slice of $550 billion
By Preston ForeJuly 25, 2025
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SuccessIt’s not just Gen Z: these founders hated their 9-to-5 so much they launched their own companies
By Emma BurleighJuly 25, 2025
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C-SuiteStarbucks CEO Brian Niccol made 6,666 times more than the median employee at his coffee chain last year
By Chris MorrisJuly 25, 2025
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SuccessAre college athletes employees of their schools? Trump signs executive order asking labor authorities to figure it out
By Will Weissert and The Associated PressJuly 25, 2025
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SuccessGoogle’s Sundar Pichai just became a billionaire—but could have been up an extra billion if he hadn’t sold stock
By Eleanor PringleJuly 25, 2025
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By Nino PaoliJuly 25, 2025
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