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KKR cofounder once impressed Roy Disney with a habit most analysts skipped—it turned a 1-hour meeting into all-day mentorship: ‘I thought I’d died and gone to heaven’
By Preston ForeJune 30, 2026
Ex-Google engineer says Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai share the same trait—it’s the lesson he swears by as a $7.2 billion AI CEO
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Ex-Google engineer says Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai share the same trait—it’s the lesson he swears by as a $7.2 billion AI CEO
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJune 28, 2026
John Collison, president and co-founder of Stripe
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Stripe cofounder says Gen Z will need two college majors to compete thanks to AI—and investing legend Charlie Munger called it first
By Emma BurleighJune 26, 2026
Meet Micron, the under-the-radar chipmaker that just reported a 346% sales surge and helped stop a global AI selloff
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Meet Micron, the under-the-radar chipmaker that just reported a 346% sales surge and helped stop a global AI selloff
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJune 26, 2026
Ikea’s billionaire founder was so frugal that he bought clothes from flea markets and took free salt and pepper from restaurants
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Ikea’s billionaire founder was so frugal that he bought clothes from flea markets and took free salt and pepper from restaurants
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJune 25, 2026
Americans are fleeing the U.S. at record rates—an ex-Google engineer who left India to build a $7.2 billion AI firm says they’re making a huge mistake
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Americans are fleeing the U.S. at record rates—an ex-Google engineer who left India to build a $7.2 billion AI firm says they’re making a huge mistake
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJune 22, 2026
Dario Amodei
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Dario Amodei has only 1 direct report, his chief of staff—and everyone else reports to his sister: ‘It’s incredibly freeing’
By Preston ForeJune 18, 2026
Aravind Srinivas, co-founder and chief executive officer of Perplexity
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‘I have nothing to lose’: Perplexity CEO says fear of failure is ‘the stupidest thing’ holding you back
By Emma BurleighJune 17, 2026
Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just cemented a $60 billion deal with SpaceX
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Cursor’s 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just cemented a $60 billion deal with SpaceX
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJune 16, 2026
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Kevin O’Leary says being liked has nothing to do with success—Steve Jobs taught him: ‘You can’t worry about whose feelings you bruise’
By Emma BurleighJune 14, 2026
Whop CEO Steven Schwartz
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The Gen Z cofounder of $1.6 billion Whop says his platform has minted over 650 millionaires—he wants to make work fun and money worries obsolete
By Emma BurleighJune 14, 2026
CEO says anyone who works from home is grabbing groceries or at the vet 30% of the time—and shows off his busy office at Friday 5 p.m. to prove it
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CEO says anyone who works from home is grabbing groceries or at the vet 30% of the time—and shows off his busy office at Friday 5 p.m. to prove it
By Orianna Rosa RoyleJune 4, 2026
Former IHOP CEO Julia Stewart
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Ex-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 BurleighMay 30, 2026
Frustrated man in work meeting
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Real estate billionaire was called the ‘worst analyst’ at Goldman Sachs—now he says the criticism was the best thing that ever happened to him
By Emma BurleighMay 27, 2026
Like Bill Gates, this billionaire is cutting his kids inheritance to 8 figures because he’d rather give more to philanthropy than his great-grandkids
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Like Bill Gates, this billionaire is cutting his kids inheritance to 8 figures because he’d rather give more to philanthropy than his great-grandkids
By Orianna Rosa RoyleMay 27, 2026
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As Big Tech showers employees with perks to win the talent war, Nvidia built a nearly $5 trillion company by making people pay for their own lunchplaceholder alt text
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJuly 1, 2026
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By Sydney LakeJune 25, 2026
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