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John Summit
Success
John Summit went from working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in a $65,000 job to a multimillionaire DJ—‘I make more in one show than I would in my entire accounting career’
By Jessica CoacciOctober 18, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc
Success
Meta is hiring entry-level roles that pay up to $290,000 a year and require little prior experience
By Emma BurleighOctober 17, 2025
Mackenzie Scott
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MacKenzie Scott has sold nearly half of her stake in Amazon, as the billionaire philanthropist casually donates over $110 million to DEI causes
By Jessica CoacciOctober 15, 2025
This entrepreneur saw losing her desk job as ‘my ticket to freedom.’ Now her products are sold in 9,000 stores
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This entrepreneur saw losing her desk job as ‘my ticket to freedom.’ Now her products are sold in 9,000 stores
By Alexandra KirkmanOctober 15, 2025
Peter Thiel
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Peter Thiel says he warned Elon Musk to ditch donating to The Giving Pledge because Bill Gates will give his wealth away ‘to left-wing nonprofits’
By Jessica CoacciOctober 13, 2025
This millennial went from being a builder on $5 an hour to launching (and selling) Wingstop UK for $532 million—with zero restaurant experience
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This millennial went from being a builder on $5 an hour to launching (and selling) Wingstop UK for $532 million—with zero restaurant experience
By Orianna Rosa RoyleOctober 12, 2025
Scope3 CEO Brian O'Kelley
Success
Gen Z are getting fired straight out of college—but this billion dollar founder was fired 3 times in his 20s and says it was the best training
By Emma Burleigh and Orianna Rosa RoyleOctober 10, 2025
Larry Ellison
Success
Meet Larry Ellison, the 81-year-old tech billionaire-turned-media mogul
By Jessica CoacciOctober 8, 2025
Marc Andreessen
Success
Billionaire investor Marc Andreessen says AI destroying jobs and making everyone poor is a ‘fallacy’—and even if that did happen, prices would drop
By Emma BurleighOctober 8, 2025
Jeremy Barker
Success
Murphy Door CEO’s small-business rule that turned the firefighter’s side hustle into $60 million in revenue
By Ashley LutzOctober 8, 2025
Jesse Itzler
Success
This multimillionaire once cleaned meat trucks for $7 an hour, but a coffee shop encounter proved ‘You’re just one move away from changing your life’
By Preston ForeOctober 6, 2025
Chess.com cofounder and chief chess officer Danny Rensch
Success
How the cofounder of Chess.com went from being a child prodigy in a religious cult to building a 225 million player empire
By Emma BurleighOctober 5, 2025
Photo of Seth Berkowitz
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Insomnia Cookies CEO made millions selling his company to Krispy Kreme, but has a warning for entrepreneurs: ‘It can be lonely; it’s a solitary life’
By Emma BurleighOctober 3, 2025
Mark Cuban on AI powering new American Dream: ‘Great democratizer’ for Gen Z
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Mark Cuban on AI powering new American Dream: ‘Great democratizer’ for Gen Z
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezOctober 2, 2025
Hollywood actor Henry Golding
Success
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ star Henry Golding carried around a notebook with random advice strangers gave him—and he’s lived by one musing his entire career
By Emma BurleighSeptember 28, 2025
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Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away fasterplaceholder alt text
By Preston ForeSeptember 20, 2026
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Meet a 71-year-old who retired as a radiologist and professor, and now runs a banana-skewer business: ‘I never want to retire. Why would you do that?’placeholder alt text
By Preston ForeSeptember 20, 2026
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Elon Musk’s DOGE swiped $329 million in humanitarian funding from Nepal, leaving a Gen Z tech revolution to transform the budding country’s economyplaceholder alt text
By Sasha RogelbergSeptember 20, 2026
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