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Here’s who topped the Fortune 500 in CEO pay last year—from Goldman’s David Solomon to Disney’s Bob Iger

Here’s who topped the Fortune 500 in CEO pay last year—from Goldman’s David Solomon to Disney’s Bob Iger

Goldman’s David Solomon clinched the top position in early 2025 pay rankings.

By Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez

January 28, 2026

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, California on Sept. 17, 2025. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Why Meta is positioning itself as an AI infrastructure giant—and doubling down on a costly new path

By Sharon Goldman

Meet a 23-year-old electrician who was a ‘good student’ but skipped college to join Gen Z’s blue-collar revolution. He makes 6 figures

By Nick Lichtenberg

IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva speaks to reporters outside during the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

AI productivity gains are making the rich richer, and they’ll wipe out jobs—but the IMF chief sees a silver lining for low-wage workers

By Tristan Bove

Dario Amodei looking up

Anthropic’s head of Claude Code on how the tool won over non-coders—and kickstarted a new era for software engineers

By Beatrice Nolan

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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos donate $5 million to neurodivergent education leader

By James Pollard and The Associated Press

December 17, 2025

Tech CEO Bryan Johnson says he’ll make humans immortal by 2039—first he just needs to sort out ‘buggy’ issues like ‘mistakenly causing cancer’

Tech CEO Bryan Johnson says he’ll make humans immortal by 2039—first he just needs to sort out ‘buggy’ issues like ‘mistakenly causing cancer’

By Orianna Rosa Royle

December 17, 2025

Satya Nadella clasps his hands together and speaks in front of a lilac background on stage.

Satya Nadella called IQ without emotional intelligence a ‘waste.’ Research shows being vulnerable at work can even help CEOs win investor trust

By Sasha Rogelberg

December 16, 2025

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s wealth has soared past $600 billion—he’s now worth double the next richest person alive, Google’s cofounder Larry Page

By Emma Burleigh

December 16, 2025

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Arts & Entertainment

Reese Witherspoon says, ‘I don’t think my career would be possible’ in the age of AI and social media: ‘It’s a different world’

December 16, 2025

Chris Kempczinski

As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, McDonald’s CEO dishes out some tough love career advice for navigating the market: ‘You’ve got to make things happen for yourself’

By Preston Fore

December 16, 2025

TD Jakes

To heal a divided nation, America’s next chapter must rediscover a common unity

December 16, 2025

Little girl held in the arms of a man wearing a graduation cap and gown

The job market is so bad, people in their 40s are resorting to going back to school instead of looking for work

December 16, 2025

A close-up of Jeff Bezos

‘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

December 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 Burleigh

December 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 Fore

December 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 Fore

December 15, 2025

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Bad luck, six-figure earners: Elon Musk warns that money will ‘disappear’ in the future as AI makes work (and salaries) irrelevant

By Orianna Rosa Royle

December 15, 2025

Nicotine pouches offer huge promise—so long as the U.S. doesn’t repeat its mistake with vaping

Nicotine pouches offer huge promise—so long as the U.S. doesn’t repeat its mistake with vaping

By Max Cunningham

December 14, 2025

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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’

By Emma Burleigh

December 14, 2025

Nicholas Thompson

I took over one of the most prestigious media firms while training for an ultramarathon. Here’s what I learned becoming CEO of The Atlantic

By Nicholas Thompson

December 13, 2025

Lauren Antonoff

Once a college dropout, this CEO went back to school at 52—but she still says the Gen Zers who will succeed are those who ‘forge their own path’

By Preston Fore

December 13, 2025

Ryan Serhant lifts his arms at the premiere of Owning Manhattan, his Netflix show

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‘

December 12, 2025

Apple CEO Tim Cook

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

By Emma Burleigh

December 12, 2025

Tensed teenage girl writing on paper

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

By Preston Fore

December 12, 2025

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‘

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‘

By Orianna Rosa Royle

December 12, 2025

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg

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

By Emma Burleigh

December 12, 2025

Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs

Apple’s Steve Jobs told students to never ‘settle’ in their careers: ‘If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking’

By Emma Burleigh

December 11, 2025

Joe Lonsdale

Palantir cofounder calls elite college undergrads a ‘loser generation’ as data reveals rise in students seeking support for disabilities, like ADHD

By Preston Fore

December 11, 2025

A sign for Time magazine is displayed outside the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025 in New York.

Time names ‘Architects of AI’ as its 2025 Person of the Year, a year when the tech’s ‘full potential roared into view’

By Mike Catalini and The Associated Press

December 11, 2025

Rich couple making a toast with champagne glasses while eating aboard a private jet.

What it takes to be wealthy in America: $2.3 million, Charles Schwab says

December 11, 2025

the conversation

Rural America is deeply misunderstood: We aren’t depopulating and we’re not the reason 2024 swung to Trump

By Tim Slack, Shannon M. Monnat and The Conversation

December 11, 2025

Student discounts made him a millionaire, a heart condition made him rethink life—now this millennial founder spends half the year in the French Alps

Student discounts made him a millionaire, a heart condition made him rethink life—now this millennial founder spends half the year in the French Alps

By Orianna Rosa Royle

December 11, 2025

Jeff Williams, former Apple CEO

Jeff Williams, who retired from Apple after 27 years, less than a month ago, just got called up by Disney to join its board of directors

December 10, 2025

Sheryl Sandberg points with one hand as he sits in front of a light blue background during an interview.

Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In finds more women leaning out for the first time since the promotion survey began a decade ago: ‘Major moment of backsliding’

By Sasha Rogelberg

December 10, 2025

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