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David Adelman
Commentary
I turned my $2,000 bar mitzvah money into a $2 billion student housing company. Here’s what I learned
By David J. AdelmanSeptember 20, 2025
Sara Blakely smiles on stage
Success
Billionaire Sara Blakely says she launched Spanx with just $5,000 from selling fax machines—and never took on a single investor: ‘I bet on myself’
By Dave SmithSeptember 20, 2025
Brineworks wind plant.
Energy
Exclusive: Climate-tech startup Brineworks raises $5.87 million
By Nino PaoliSeptember 19, 2025
Will Shu
Success
Deliveroo CEO Will Shu turned 100-hour weeks on Wall Street into a $4 billion food empire. Now he’s cashing out with $250 million
By Preston ForeSeptember 18, 2025
Sara Blakely
Success
Spanx billionaire founder kept the brand a secret—even from family—for a year. If she hadn’t, she says she’d probably still be selling fax machines
By Preston ForeSeptember 16, 2025
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
Success
The founders who cashed out on YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram—and missed out on becoming today’s billionaires
By Preston ForeSeptember 13, 2025
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Success
Klarna’s cofounder worked at Burger King and lived on welfare before starting the buy-now, pay-later firm. It’s now worth $16 billion after IPO
By Preston ForeSeptember 12, 2025
Burned out
Commentary
We studied America’s entrepreneurs and found too many of them were burned out, anxious and depressed. We need a well-being revolution
By Samantha Dewalt, Willy Das and Daniela Gimenez-JimenezSeptember 12, 2025
YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup
Success
YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup
By Jessica CoacciSeptember 8, 2025
Meet the millennial couple who risked their savings and got a $1 million loan to buy the world’s oldest operating drive-in theater
Success
Meet the millennial couple who risked their savings and got a $1 million loan to buy the world’s oldest operating drive-in theater
By Gene Puskar, Mingson Lau, Holly Ramer and The Associated PressSeptember 6, 2025
Big Dave's Cheesesteaks CEO and founder Derrick Hayes
Success
Multimillion-dollar restaurant CEO splurged on Range Rovers and McLarens—but now he’s ‘mindful’ about spending because the economy is unpredictable
By Emma BurleighSeptember 5, 2025
Andrew Filev
Commentary
My $2.25 billion exit taught me that Silicon Valley’s obsession with 100-hour weeks is actually sabotage. It’s a marathon, not a sprint
By Andrew FilevAugust 30, 2025
Big Dave's Cheesesteaks founder and CEO Derrick Hayes
Success
Big Dave’s Cheesesteaks CEO grew up in ‘survival mode’ selling newspapers and bean pies—now his chain sells a $12 cheesesteak every 58 seconds
By Emma BurleighAugust 30, 2025
Tommy Fleetwood of England celebrates with the Fedex Cup trophy after winning the final round of the TOUR Championship 2025 at East Lake Golf Club on August 24, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Success
Tommy Fleetwood finally snapped his historic winless streak—163 consecutive PGA Tour losses—and got $10 million richer in the process
By Nino PaoliAugust 27, 2025
Brian Chesky
Success
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he’s still in founder mode—he personally handpicks staff, treats them as direct reports, and decides who stays
By Jessica Coacci and Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 26, 2025
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Mark Cuban says he has the solution to growing income inequality, and it's to reward every employee—from CEO to janitor—with company stockplaceholder alt text
By Sasha RogelbergJuly 20, 2026
Success
‘I want to die broke’: Billionaire philanthropist Denny Sanford dies after giving away $4 billionplaceholder alt text
By Sydney LakeJuly 20, 2026
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OpenAI says its AI models secretly broke out of a secure test environment and hacked into AI company Hugging Face in order to cheat on an evaluationplaceholder alt text
By Jeremy Kahn and Emily ForliniJuly 21, 2026
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