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SuccessFlexjet’s chairman was living with his parents—then he borrowed $500 from his dad to help buy a company, and became a billionaire
By Emma BurleighOctober 1, 2025
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SuccessAmerica will see its largest mass resignation in history as 100,000 federal workers are set to quit their jobs today
By Emma BurleighSeptember 30, 2025
Mike Bloomberg
SuccessBillionaire Mike Bloomberg was fired after dedicating 15 years of his career to Salomon Brothers—the next morning, he founded his media empire
By Emma BurleighSeptember 23, 2025
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan
SuccessZoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI
By Emma BurleighSeptember 15, 2025
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SuccessAI expert says it’s ‘not a question’ that AI will take over all jobs—but people will have 80 hours a week of free time
By Emma BurleighSeptember 9, 2025
Gen Z worker is fired from company
SuccessSilicon Valley’s graying workforce: Gen Z staff cut in half at tech companies as the average age goes up by 5 years
By Emma BurleighSeptember 7, 2025
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SuccessUnemployed graduates are flocking to this business degree to stand out in the current job market. Unlike most MBAs it requires zero work experience
By Emma BurleighSeptember 3, 2025
CEO Laurent Freixe purses his lips during a general shareholders meetingof Nestle in Switzerland.
C-SuiteNestlé fired its scandal-clad CEO without a payout—a ‘really unusual’ move, corporate governance expert says
By Eva RoytburgSeptember 2, 2025
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SuccessSalesforce CEO Marc Benioff says his company has cut 4,000 customer service jobs as AI steps in: ‘I need less heads’
By Emma BurleighSeptember 2, 2025
Former IHOP CEO Julia Stewart
SuccessEx-Applebee’s exec was told she’d never be CEO—she bought the chain and fired her naysayer: ‘We don’t need two of us, so I’m gonna have to let you go’
By Emma BurleighAugust 22, 2025
Older worker sad at laptop
SuccessA quarter of young Boomers and Gen Xers who’ve been laid off in the last decade are still unemployed—and 11% have taken pay cuts to work
By Emma BurleighJuly 22, 2025
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SuccessJames Gunn said he thought his ‘career was over’ when Disney fired him: ‘I didn’t think I was gonna make another dime in this industry’
By Dave SmithJuly 21, 2025
Gen Z student doing online interview
SuccessGoldman Sachs wants students to stop using ChatGPT in job interviews with the bank
By Emma BurleighJune 11, 2025
Demis Hassabis, chief executive officer of Google DeepMind
SuccessTop 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
By Emma BurleighJune 6, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta
SuccessMeta wants to replace its human workers with AI to review privacy and societal risks
By Emma BurleighJune 2, 2025
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