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Jeff Bezos
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Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year
By Preston ForeAugust 22, 2026
Billionaire biotech pioneer Robert Langer
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Moderna co-founder is a billionaire once again at $1.7 billion—he once turned down 20 high-paying job offers to ‘have more of an impact on the world’
By Emma BurleighAugust 20, 2026
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Reed Hastings says he learned why companies aren’t families after laying off one-third of Netflix: ‘You would never lay off two of your kids’
By Preston ForeAugust 18, 2026
Entrepreneur James Dacombe
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Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his startup at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe
By Emma BurleighAugust 17, 2026
Jeffrey Sprecher, President and Founder, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange
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Meet the self-made billionaire who bought a nearly bankrupt company off Warren Buffett for $1,000 and turned it into a $85 billion giant
By Emma BurleighAugust 16, 2026
Actress Jennifer Garner
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Jennifer Garner cofounded a $732 million business at 45, and says her age came with perks: ‘I’m blissfully not motivated by needing to be in charge’
By Emma BurleighAugust 13, 2026
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How a book that inspired Warren Buffett and a $14,000 side hustle helped billionaire Bill Ackman get started as an investor
By Emma BurleighAugust 11, 2026
Ronnen Harary
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The best time to start a business is in your 20s—not 30s—says cofounder of $2 billion toy giant Spin Master: ’No one sees you as competition’
By Emma BurleighAugust 11, 2026
Tarek Mansour
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Kalshi’s 30-year-old CEO says most business advice is ‘trash’—he doesn’t read management books or listen to podcasts: ‘I’m gonna make it up as I go’
By Preston ForeAugust 11, 2026
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Mark Zuckerberg says the future will have an ‘abundance of jobs’—and predicts a wave of new careers like world builders and personal biologists
By Preston ForeAugust 10, 2026
Andrew Feldman, Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems
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CEO of $49 billion AI company says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ people think you can work 38 hours a week, have work-life balance, and be successful
By Emma BurleighAugust 9, 2026
Michael Saylor,
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Crypto billionaire Michael Saylor says he made $15 billion last year with ChatGPT—and has one rule: ‘Don’t try to outwork the robots’
By Preston ForeAugust 6, 2026
Marc Rowan, chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management
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Apollo CEO has a $11.1 billion net worth today—but he started out with a series of hospitality jobs, from valet parking to working in a party store
By Emma BurleighAugust 5, 2026
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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu once thought his $87 billion company would only make $100 million. He tells founders to be ‘greedy’ and dream bigger
By Emma BurleighAugust 4, 2026
Patrick Collison
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Despite dropping out of MIT to build $159 billion fintech Stripe, its CEO has a warning for Gen Z who want to copy him: ‘That was a poor intuition’
By Preston ForeAugust 4, 2026
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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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