Founders

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Hella Cocktail Co founders
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This Gen Xer turned $2,500 on a credit card into a multimillion-dollar business and quit his 9-to-5 for good

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June 1, 2025
ReliaQuest CEO Brian Murphy leaning against a desk, with the company logo above it
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This CEO went from bagging groceries at Publix to founding a $3.4 billion cyber company—after skipping the Ivy League and teaching himself to code

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June 1, 2025
Ryan Lupberger, CEO and Co-Founder of Clean Cult
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This millennial runs a $53 million eco-friendly business backed by Zac Efron and Kevin Hart—He’s never been promoted, and flies planes to unwind

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May 29, 2025
Daniel Lubetzky walking with graduation regalia
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Shark Tank’s newest star gives Gen Z grads a reality check—that they need to ‘wake up earlier and stay up later’ to achieve their dreams

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May 23, 2025
Telegram founder Pavel Durov smiles while wearing an all-black outfit
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Telegram’s CEO built two dominant social networks from scratch before 40 and has fathered more than 100 biological children. He’s also facing up to 10 years in prison

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May 22, 2025
Woman with Same Ole Line Dudes in Diddy trial line.
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This Gen Xer charges $38 an hour to wait in line—including for the Diddy trial and sample sales. Now he’s made a business empire out of standing around all day

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May 18, 2025
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
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Airbnb’s Brian Chesky says CEOs don’t have to be ‘miserable’—that’s why he got rid of emails and banned meetings before 10 a.m.

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May 15, 2025
David Blake, founder and co-CEO of Degreed
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Forget coffee, $1.4 billion tech company chief says he naps instead: ‘I can take them just about anywhere’

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May 14, 2025
Nick Jonas has invested in Olipop, Snackpass, and Magic Spoon—he says he won’t back a founder without a killer story
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Nick Jonas has invested in Olipop, Snackpass, and Magic Spoon—he says he won’t back a founder without a killer story

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May 12, 2025
Tariffs
Leadership

Surviving tariffs: 5 steps small businesses should take now

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May 1, 2025
Building a team
Leadership

Here are the three biggest hiring mistakes most startups make early on and how to avoid them

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May 1, 2025
Workera CEO and founder Kian Katanforoosh
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Despite running a $55.5 million software company, this millennial CEO still has roommates

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April 30, 2025
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Perplexity CEO shares the Elon Musk–inspired mantra that helped him build the $9 billion rival to OpenAI

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April 29, 2025
Kim Jong-Un in 2018.
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North Korean IT workers are spamming tech firms with fake résumés. One founder says he came up with ‘a foolproof way’ of weeding them out

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April 10, 2025
Cofounder of $12 billion crypto company says Gen Z new hires ‘create an absurd amount of chaos’ and make him want to pull his hair out—but he’s betting on them anyway
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Cofounder of $12 billion crypto company says Gen Z new hires ‘create an absurd amount of chaos’ and make him want to pull his hair out—but he’s betting on them anyway

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April 10, 2025

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