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‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon

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December 15, 2025
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Meetings are not work, says Southwest Airlines CEO—and he’s taking action, by blocking his calendar every afternoon from Wednesday to Friday 

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December 15, 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg says the ‘most important thing’ he built at Harvard was a prank website: ‘Without Facemash I wouldn’t have met Priscilla’

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December 6, 2025
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Meet Jared Isaacman, the billionaire tapped by Donald Trump and Elon Musk to usher in a new era of space travel—and he has strict rules about meetings

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November 6, 2025
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IBM’s CEO disagrees with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s disdain for texting in meetings: ‘Telling people they can’t use their technology would be weird’

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November 4, 2025
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Gen Zers are using AI to skip meetings, get promoted faster and win bigger salary hikes. But they don’t feel great about it

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October 28, 2025
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says if you check your email in meetings, he’ll tell you to close it: ’it’s disrespectful’

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October 17, 2025
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82-year-old CEO grew a $7.8 billion fortune from company shares—now she’s selling stock to charity and signed Warren Buffett’s pledge to give away 99%

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August 19, 2025
GoTo Foods CEO Jim Holthouser
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Forget cold plunges: this CEO says the Gen Z habit of starting the day with memes is his favorite morning routine

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August 5, 2025
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When running AI giant OpenAI becomes too overwhelming, Sam Altman turns to pen and paper—it’s a habit shared by Bill Gates and Richard Branson

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July 24, 2025
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban
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Billionaire Mark Cuban reads around 700 emails every day in his quest for near inbox zero—and prefers that to ‘boring’ meetings

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July 23, 2025
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Jamie Dimon hates how cell phones have ruined productivity in meetings—and experts are rejoicing at someone finally stating the obvious

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April 9, 2025
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Vimeo CEO says not using adverbs helps put the focus on customers—here’s why he thinks it helps companies to not ‘lose their way’

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April 6, 2025
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Vimeo’s CEO says he has one very strict rule for meetings—and it mirrors the Jeff Bezos playbook 

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April 4, 2025
Beware of ‘intergalactic committees’—small, focused teams are the best way to get work done
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Beware of ‘intergalactic committees’—small, focused teams are the best way to get work done

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February 21, 2025

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