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Kayla Itsines became a millionaire at 22 and sold her fitness app for $400 million—buying a gas station paid her rent

Fitness mogul Kayla Itsines says the first investment that made her money, and paid her rent, was a gas station: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

By Emma Burleigh

January 30, 2026

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Meet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race

By Oscar Täckström

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CEO of $90 billion Waste Management hauled trash and went to 1 a.m. safety briefings—‘It’s not always just dollars and cents’

By Amanda Gerut

The Brooklyn Bridge and One World Trade Center along the Manhattan skyline in New York, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025. New York City is staring down a $10 billion budget gap next fiscal year, reflecting slowing tax collections and uncertainty over federal funding streams. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Bridgewater, D.E. Shaw among top hedge fund gainers of 2025

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Italian tourists pose with their euro notes in front of the Bulgarian National Bank as part of the celebrations for Bulgaria being the 21st country to adopt the euro currency after 19 years of European Union membership, in Sofia, Bulgaria, on January 1, 2026. (Photo by Denislav Stoychev/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Cash machines in this former communist country issue euros for the first time after becoming the 21st member of the currency union

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WPP CEO Read to retire as ad group looks to reignite growth

By Benoit Berthelot and Bloomberg

June 9, 2025

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WPP CEO Read to retire as ad group looks to reignite growth

The CEO of Sweet Loren’s gives every new hire a personality test—and they don’t get the job if they’re too corporate

Scale AI’s 30-year-old billionaire founder still shops at Shein and pulls up to work in a Honda Civic: ‘Act broke, stay rich,’ Lucy Guo says

Trivago watched its revenue forecast plummet from $1 billion to nearly zero—so the company tapped a set of former interns to turn it around

Top Google exec says AI will rival humans in just 5 years and predicts we’ll ‘colonize the galaxy’ in 2030—but he draws the line at robot nurses

Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasts the 4-day week as the ‘stupidest idea’ because the digital economy means we’re always working

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI is ready for entry-level jobs—but unbothered Gen Z have made it their new work friend

Keke Palmer started working at 9—she didn’t take a vacation for 15 years as the breadwinner and still lives like she’s not a millionaire

Can’t afford marketing, or just hate it? Learn what your customers most need to know, and tell them that

Coca-Cola’s ex-CEO is spending retirement swimming with sharks and climbing with gorillas—and he’s not slowing down

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says his dad did him ‘a service’ by never complimenting him—it’s a lesson he’s kept while building the $82 billion giant

Wall Street CEO tells interns to ‘act immediately like this is 100% your full-time career’—it’s one of 20 top tips Rich Handler has for Gen Z

This Stanford professor built a ‘Terminator’ AI fund manager that crushed 93% of human stock pickers. He says junior analysts’ jobs are in jeopardy

Costco’s CEO started his career as a forklift driver. Now he’s leading a $254 billion giant rising up the Fortune 500

Rolls-Royce CEO fired managers and held staff brainstorms as part of a ‘4 pillar’ turnaround plan that led to 600% share price jump

The maker of Taser is the highest paid CEO, taking home $165 million—his new pay package and soaring stock made him a billionaire last year

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

Jimmy Fallon dropped out of college in his last semester—he says he survived on $7 a day just to get stage time, before making the millions

Billionaire YouTuber MrBeast says he actually has ‘very little money’ and is borrowing cash from his mom to pay for his wedding

As Gen Z blows rent on Taylor Swift tickets, they say they feel ‘judged’ and blame schools for not teaching them how to budget

This millennial launched her fashion brand House of CB on eBay at 17 years old—now it’s making $200 million a year and worn by the Kardashians

A 21-year-old asked his grandmother for money to open a street-food stall. Now, it’s the world’s largest fast-food chain, eclipsing McDonald’s

Meta wants to replace its human workers with AI to review privacy and societal risks

Gen Z men studying an MBA will see a 75% salary bump—that’s 25% more than women with the same qualification

As boomers are forced to ‘unretire’ because they’ve not saved enough, 6-year-olds in Germany could soon have retirement accounts

Gen Z nepo babies are bragging about their generational wealth on TikTok—but there’s a major catch

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

This Gen Xer turned $2,500 on a credit card into a multimillion-dollar business and quit his 9-to-5 for good

This CEO went from bagging groceries at Publix to founding a $3.4 billion cyber company—after skipping the Ivy League and teaching himself to code

Gen Z and boomers are driving a leadership vacuum that’s threatening productivity and morale at work

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