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dbt Labs founder and CEO Tristan Handy.
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CEO of $4.2 billion tech giant says defying Silicon Valley’s ‘move fast and break things’ mantra was essential to growing his business

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March 7, 2025
YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known as Mr. Beast.
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MrBeast is the world’s top YouTuber with an $85 million empire—but he says the average person ‘would be miserable’ living his life

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March 6, 2025
Thrive Market’s millennial CEO built a Costco model for Whole Foods shoppers with 1.6 million American customers
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Thrive Market’s millennial CEO built a Costco model for Whole Foods shoppers with 1.6 million American customers

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March 5, 2025
Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Harvard University at its 2017 366th Commencement Exercises.
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From dorm rooms to boardrooms: This U.S. college has created more billionaires than anywhere else, including Mark Zuckerberg and Jamie Dimon

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March 4, 2025
Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra
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Poshmark’s CEO lets his Gen Z workers choose what he wears—he says it helps him ‘immerse’ into the next generation’s thinking

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March 3, 2025
Elon Musk.
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Billionaires earning $10 billion per day in January are suddenly watching their net worth get wiped out—Elon Musk has lost $90 billion alone

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February 28, 2025
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
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Bill Gates says Microsoft might not have taken off if he hadn’t dropped out of Harvard—or spent his nights sneaking out to code until 2 a.m. at 13

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February 20, 2025
Baked by Melissa founder once shirked the CEO role: ‘I didn’t think I was good enough.’ Now she’s not looking back
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Baked by Melissa founder once shirked the CEO role: ‘I didn’t think I was good enough.’ Now she’s not looking back

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February 17, 2025
A young Bill Gates caught on camera
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Bill Gates says he got into every Ivy League school he applied to, but tailored a different ‘persona’ for each application: ‘Each was a performance’

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February 7, 2025
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 30: People exit a Starbucks store in Manhattan
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A top Starbucks analyst went on a stealthy mission to test the company’s vibe shift and saw three signs of tactical changes

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January 28, 2025
A Bay Area couple is facing years in prison after allegedly stealing from investors, according to criminal and civil complaints.
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Tech couple that allegedly stole $60 million claimed to work with the NBA, NHL, PGA, PwC, and Coca-Cola. The SEC says it was all part of an elaborate scheme

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January 26, 2025
judge slamming gavel
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Tech founder and his wife allegedly stole millions to pay for a lavish wedding, a new Tesla, and private schools—while failing to even make payroll for employees

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January 24, 2025
What Donald Trump and Elon Musk backing H-1B visas means to me as an immigrant entrepreneur
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What Donald Trump and Elon Musk backing H-1B visas means to me as an immigrant entrepreneur

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January 17, 2025
The founder of activist short-seller Hindenburg Research, Nate Anderson.
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Founders keep saying they learned the same life lesson after extraordinary career success: ‘I had isolated myself’

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January 17, 2025
Sam Altman gesticulates during the NYT Dealbook Summit
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Sam Altman says he ‘stalked’ his OpenAI cofounder to convince him to join the company

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January 16, 2025

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