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Success
Chess.com cofounder says it took a pinch of delusion to bring the traditional game online—and it’s a ‘requirement for every successful entrepreneur’
By Emma BurleighDecember 14, 2025
Zhenghua Yang
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At 18, doctors gave him three hours to live. He played video games from his hospital bed—and now, he’s built a $10 million-a-year video game studio
By Preston ForeDecember 10, 2025
Reed Hastings
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Netflix cofounder started his career selling vacuums door-to-door before college—now, his $440 billion streaming giant is buying Warner Bros. and HBO
By Preston ForeDecember 5, 2025
Anthropic is all in on ‘AI safety’—and that’s helping the $183 billion startup win over big business
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Anthropic is all in on ‘AI safety’—and that’s helping the $183 billion startup win over big business
By Jeremy KahnDecember 2, 2025
How a jazz musician built a startup solving employee retention—with a platform that plays to every strength
Workplace Culture
How a jazz musician built a startup solving employee retention—with a platform that plays to every strength
By Alexandra KirkmanNovember 25, 2025
Marc Benioff
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29-year-old founder spammed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff 53 times—it worked and now he spends 30 minutes a week ‘hustling’ and shooting cold emails
By Jessica CoacciNovember 25, 2025
Brian Halligan, chief executive officer and co-founder of Hubspot Inc., speaks during the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.
Success
The Deadhead who became a $38 billion CEO: What HubSpot cofounder Brian Halligan learned from Jerry Garcia and passed on to his MIT students
By Eva RoytburgNovember 25, 2025
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Success
As boomers are forced back to work because they can’t afford to retire, Robinhood CEO says Gen Zers are opening retirement accounts at just 19 years old
By Emma BurleighNovember 24, 2025
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Success
Founder of $100 million company never unplugs from work, but encourages her team to have work-life balance: ‘They didn’t sign up to be entrepreneurs’
By Emma BurleighNovember 23, 2025
Google cofounder Larry Page
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Google cofounder Larry Page overtakes Jeff Bezos as the third richest person in the world following an Alphabet stock surge
By Emma BurleighNovember 21, 2025
Turing cofounder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth
Success
The CEO of $2.2 billion AI company Turing can’t live without ChatGPT, swears by his Kindle, and has only taken 2 weeks of vacation in 7 years
By Emma BurleighNovember 13, 2025
Alexis Ohanian ignored Paul Graham’s warning that Reddit’s ‘terrible’ name would be ‘poison’. Now it’s a $38 billion business 
Startups & Venture
Alexis Ohanian ignored Paul Graham’s warning that Reddit’s ‘terrible’ name would be ‘poison’. Now it’s a $38 billion business 
By Rachel VentrescaNovember 11, 2025
Lyft Chief Executive Officer David Risher
Success
Lyft’s CEO got the top job after initially turning it down—Here’s the six-week process that made him chief executive
By Emma BurleighNovember 11, 2025
Ring cofounder Jamie Siminoff
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Ring’s founder went from shoveling horse stalls to selling to Amazon for $1.15 billion and says work-life balance is a myth
By Preston ForeNovember 10, 2025
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Success
Reddit’s CEO has just become a billionaire—a staggering 20 years after co-founding the company fresh out of college with $12,000
By Emma BurleighNovember 3, 2025
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