Founders

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Phoebe Gates
Success

Bill and Melinda French Gates gave their Gen Z daughter this piece of business advice before she launched her own $8 million startup

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September 17, 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

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September 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

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September 13, 2025
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, chief executive officer and co-founder of Klarna
Success

Klarna’s $17 billion IPO has just turned 40 staffers into overnight millionaires—while Nvidia, Canva, and Palantir workers are seeing similar gains

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September 11, 2025
YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup
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YC co-founder who backed Airbnb, Dropbox, and Reddit says high school isn’t the time to launch a startup

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September 8, 2025
Jensen Huang signs with a marker.
Success

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sent research reports on Sundays to SoundHound’s CEO for feedback—an unusual ritual that helped grow the $5 billion AI firm

By Preston Fore and Orianna Rosa Royle
September 5, 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

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September 5, 2025
Why Zocdoc made one of its founders CAIO: ‘You have a little bit more political capital’
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Why Zocdoc made one of its founders CAIO: ‘You have a little bit more political capital’

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September 3, 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

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August 30, 2025
Leslie Feinzaig
Commentary

I’m rooting for female founders’ comebacks. And for the end of branding women, from girlboss to tradwife and all the way down

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August 27, 2025
Photo of Alexis Ohanian
Success

Millionaire Alexis Ohanian walked out of the LSAT 20 minutes in, went to a Waffle House, and decided he was ‘gonna invent a career.’ He founded Reddit

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August 27, 2025
Photo of Thomas Healy
Success

The world’s youngest self-made billionaire says the secret to closing deals is exploiting investors’ greed and fear of missing out

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August 26, 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 Royle
August 26, 2025
Former IHOP CEO Julia Stewart
Success

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’

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August 22, 2025
Photo of Lior Lewensztain
Success

Gen Z want ‘secure’ jobs in health care—but this CEO left the industry after realizing he could make millions getting Americans to eat more fruit

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August 22, 2025

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