CEO salaries and executive compensation

Oracle’s new Gen X and Millennial CEOs get stock options worth $350 million—but they’ll have to keep the stock soaring to collect
C-Suite

Oracle’s new Gen X and Millennial CEOs get stock options worth $350 million—but they’ll have to keep the stock soaring to collect

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September 22, 2025
CEO of $22.5 billion Ramp calls advisors like OpenAI’s Fidji Simo and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella when he needs business advice
C-Suite

CEO of $22.5 billion Ramp calls advisors like OpenAI’s Fidji Simo and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella when he needs business advice

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September 18, 2025
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Success

Pope Leo warns that the world is in ‘big trouble’ if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire

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September 15, 2025
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s turnaround plan—and whether analysts think he’s earning his $100 million pay package
Banking

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol’s turnaround plan—and whether analysts think he’s earning his $100 million pay package

By Molly Liebergall and Morning Brew
September 12, 2025
Young man in a blue shirt with a microphone
Big Tech

Opendoor brings back its founders and welcomes a new CEO from Shopify—who could earn $2.8 billion if he sends the stock soaring

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September 11, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Success

OpenAI may soon be the most valuable private company—but Sam Altman’s net worth won’t jolt, as the CEO holds no equity and makes just $76,001 a year

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August 21, 2025
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol.
Companies

Starbucks’ CEO is ditching a merit system and giving all salaried staff a flat 2% pay raise instead

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August 21, 2025
Life360 co-founder Chris Hulls in a black shirt.
C-Suite

‘I disdain corporate speak’: Tech founder disregards comms and legal in tell-all sign-off post about the heavy weight of being CEO

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August 12, 2025
Tesla CEO Elon Musk listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
C-Suite

Elon Musk retains title as the highest-paid CEO in history with $26 billion pay package—and the only thing he has to do is show up for two years

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August 4, 2025
The SEC’s ‘Frankenstein patchwork of rules’ for disclosing executive perks is due for a makeover
Finance

The SEC’s ‘Frankenstein patchwork of rules’ for disclosing executive perks is due for a makeover

By Courtney Vien and CFO Brew
July 29, 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Success

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says he’s created more billionaires in his team than any CEO in the world

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July 28, 2025
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol smiles
C-Suite

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made 6,666 times more than the median employee at his coffee chain last year

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July 25, 2025
Stanford dropout Sam Altman says college is ‘not working great’ for most people—and predicts major change in the next 18 years
AI

Stanford dropout Sam Altman says college is ‘not working great’ for most people—and predicts major change in the next 18 years

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July 24, 2025
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Tech

Elon Musk wants more control of Tesla so activist investors can’t boot him—but not so much the board can’t fire him if he goes ‘crazy’

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July 24, 2025
Elon Musk wearing black in the Oval Office in May, 2025.
C-Suite

Elon Musk’s Tesla finally sets a shareholder meeting date amid doubts about his long-denied $56 billion pay package

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July 10, 2025

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