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‘We’ve given them the short end of the stick’: Business school professor says AI could eliminate many jobs for young people—even as they lead innovation

Despite being innovation leaders, young workers face an AI transition that prioritizes "better, cheaper, faster" over breakthrough thinking, according...

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Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year

Billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, says the bottom 50% of Americans should pay no federal income tax—and he plans to pitch the idea to...

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Despite a $500 million net worth, Shaq just finished his fourth degree. He warns graduates: ‘Your character will take you further than your resume’

The NBA legend and businessman just earned another degree from LSU at 54—but he says character and humility matter more than credentials.

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Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’:

Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of “entitlement” forced a sweeping reset—including cutting the HR team, he says, which was “creating...

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Dr. Bernice King on why companies that walked back DEI were never truly committed: ‘If you retreat that quick…that reveals who you really are’

The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. says corporate retreats from DEI initiatives expose which companies genuinely cared.

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Tom Brady tells Gen Z to treat their careers like the Super Bowl: ‘You may only get one chance to impress your boss or land a promotion’

The seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady admits success can be fleeting while pointing to Blackberry and Blockbuster. ‘Sometimes there isn’t...

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Will the future of work for Gen Z include space? Tech leaders predict space work and travel could be just a decade away

As the number of Gen Z’s entry-level jobs shrinks, billionaires like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk say the real growth is soon leaving Earth.

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Goldman Sachs’ CEO once scooped ice cream at Baskin-Robbins—he picked up a second job at McDonald’s after his dad gave him a time management lesson

Before becoming Goldman Sachs CEO, David Solomon scooped ice cream, flipped burgers at McDonald’s, and DJed on the side.

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Gen Z wants AI-proof jobs. The president of a 50-property hotel chain says hospitality is hiding in plain sight

Kurt Alexander, president of Omni Hotels, says hospitality offers AI-resistant careers for young workers with the right attitude—something that...

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Before ‘Star Wars’ made him a multimillionaire, Harrison Ford struggled to make ends meet—so he spent 15 years working a trades side-gig

Before Harrison Ford became Han Solo and earned $1,000 a week for the role, he spent 15 years as a woodworker to pay the bills.

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Blackstone COO Jon Gray predicts ‘huge boom’ in blue-collar jobs—his own data center company is hiring 30,000 new roles

As AI threatens office jobs, Blackstone’s COO says it’s also creating thousands of high-paying trades jobs.

14.05.2026 6

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Despite having a $165 million net worth, Scarlett Johansson says work-life balance doesn’t exist—and the first step to success is admitting that

“Admitting that there is no work-life balance is the first step to getting there in a way because it's just not possible,” Scarlett Johansson...

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Delta’s CEO let AI write a speech for Gen Z college grads—but he threw it away and started over with pencil and paper for one key reason

As AI reshapes the job market, Delta CEO Ed Bastian warned Gen Z graduates about over relying on the technology that lacks ‘soul.’

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Microsoft’s CFO admits she joined the tech giant without even knowing her salary—and then missed her first day of work

Amy Hood accepted a Microsoft job in 2002 without knowing her salary. Two decades later, her compensation now tops $29 million.

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Trump wants to cut federal loans from college programs that don’t pay off. College cosmetology, fine arts, and music programs are at risk

As student debt surpasses $1.7 trillion, a Trump-backed rule would strip federal aid from degree and certificate programs with weak earnings outcomes.

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CEO writes hundreds of thank you notes to staff and still eats in the break room—which ‘always, for whatever reason, blows new employees away’

First Watch CEO Chris Tomasso isn’t afraid to pick up pen and paper—something similarly embraced by top business leaders at Chevron and even OpenAI.

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MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

CEOs who cut entry-level jobs risk long-term fallout, warns MIT’s Andrew McAfee—as IBM and Salesforce double down on Gen Z talent.

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Public schools in Texas banned cellphones. One district has already seen 200,000 more library books checked out

Library book checkouts at one Texas school district jumped nearly 25% just months after a cellphone ban—but for many Gen Z and Gen Alpha students,...

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warns a ‘great’ meeting is usually a bad one—here’s how he ends them instead

The leader of the U.S.’s largest bank says meetings should always end with clear action items—otherwise, they were probably a waste of time.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution

Jensen Huang went from washing dishes at Denny's to building the world’s most valuable company—now he says the field he studied in college will be...

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Justin Trudeau warns AI boom could create hundreds of trillionaires—and it will mean there’s something ‘fundamentally wrong with the world’

The former Canadian prime minister warns that as AI accelerates efficiency, it could disproportionately accrue to the top 1%.

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Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI—and even teachers make the list

Sorry, Gen Z: AI is expected to soon reshape dozens of popular professions—and possibly make some tasks obsolete.

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Apple cofounder Ronald Wayne—whose stake would be worth up to $400 billion had he not sold it in 1976—says that at 91, he has no regrets

Ronald Wayne helped Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak create Apple—but sold out just 12 days in. He never became a billionaire, but tells Fortune he has...

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Apple cofounder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976—today it’d be worth up to $400 billion

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are often known as the brains behind the nearly $4 trillion tech giant, Apple, but the company’s original third...

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This CEO lived on canned soup and took just two days off for his daughter’s birth. Now he admits he lost sight of proper work-life balance

Ron Schneidermann, CEO of test prep company Acely, is urging Gen Z to do it differently.

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Forget LinkedIn—Amazon’s Andy Jassy started a chicken wing eating club to network when he first moved to Seattle for work

Before the Amazon C-suite, Andy Jassy was hosting weekly chicken wing nights to network with his peers—a lesson for Gen Z in the power of genuine...

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LinkedIn’s new CEO Daniel Shapero says the company you keep has a bigger impact on your career than job titles

New LinkedIn CEO Daniel Shapero says his best early career move wasn’t chasing promotions—it was choosing the right people, even if it meant...

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Elon Musk thinks college is ‘basically for fun’—but his former Tesla HR chief tells Gen Z even their liberal arts degrees are more valuable than ever

As tech founders like Elon Musk push back on the value of degrees, former Tesla exec Valerie Capers Workman says they're dead wrong.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells Gen Z that if they want to be successful, they have to ‘pay their dues’ first

Before he ran Amazon, Andy Jassy wanted to be a pro athlete. Now he's telling Gen Z that not having a plan isn't a crisis—it's a competitive...

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Dana Perino was terrified to leave the White House — until George W. Bush changed how she thinks about her career

Former White House press secretary Dana Perino says George W. Bush taught her to stop rigid career planning and focus on now.

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Pope Leo warned the world is in ‘big trouble’ if Elon Musk becomes the first trillionaire

The top 1% increased their wealth by nearly $34 trillion over the last decade—enough to eliminate annual poverty 22 times over.

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This CEO pirated video games as a teen and became a hacker for the Air Force. Now he’s built a $3 billion cyber firm

Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan bootstrapped his way from online hacker forums to a $3 billion valuation—without an Ivy League degree.

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This CEO has teamed up with Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey to build an AI degree that could rival Harvard—and it will only cost $10,000 to attend

Khan Academy CEO Sal Khan is reinventing college with an AI-focused bachelor's degree program, built with Google, Microsoft & McKinsey, for under...

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Coca-Cola chairman calls work-life balance a ‘weird phrase’ and says success is down to survival—’kind of like Squid Game’

The path to the top can feel long, uncertain, and brutally competitive. Just ask Coca-Cola chairman, James Quincey, who compared it to Squid Game.

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Palantir CEO says working at his $316 billion software company is better than a degree from Harvard or Yale: ‘No one cares about the other stuff’

Sorry, Apple, Google, and OpenAI, Palantir’s billionaire boss Alex Karp says a job at his AI firm is the "best credential in tech."

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‘It tastes like a Twinkie’: Major tech podcaster Kara Swisher says AI is overhyped for one simple reason—humans don’t like it

Fears about AI’s revolution of the job market may be overblown, according to veteran journalist Kara Swisher—and it’s all thanks to a growing...

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Former Tesla president reveals the ‘single most important thing’ you can do for your career—it’s a habit Elon Musk and Warren Buffett share too

Forget an MBA: The true secret to a successful career starts with picking up that dusty book on your nightstand, according to former Tesla president...

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‘The Pitt’ star thought he’d ‘die’ with $80K in student debt—he was working 3 jobs, ready to ditch acting and move to the Alaskan wilderness

Patrick Ball, who plays senior resident Dr. Frank Langdon on “The Pitt,” admits he nearly quit acting altogether after struggling to make ends...

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Zoom CEO predicts a 3-day workweek is just five years away—and he’s happy about it: ‘I hate working 5 days’

“I do not think we need to work for 5 days because literally we all will employ so many digital agents,” Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said.

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Self-made billionaire MrBeast says his work-life balance is nonexistent and calls it a ‘miracle’ if he works less than 15 hour days: ‘I live to work’

Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, built a $5 billion media empire—but admits it has come at the cost of any real work-life balance.

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Artemis II’s astronauts are on their way home—a six-figure salary but no overtime or hazard pay awaits them back on Earth

Despite making history for the entire human race, Artemis II astronauts are paid a humble salary of about $152,000—on par with mid-career desk jobs...

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Lowe’s is investing $250 million to train plumbers, carpenters, and electricians as its CEO says skilled trades are ‘critical to the future’

Lowe’s CEO Marvin Ellison says AI can’t replace hands-on work or fix labor shortages — the company is quintupling its investment in the skilled...

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Gen Z is rewriting the American Dream, and their parents are funding it—using tuition money for down payments, instead

With tuition costs doubling over the last 30 years, student debt mounting, and Gen Z increasingly struggling to land jobs, some parents now believe a...

06.04.2026 10

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Meet the Gen Z grads reviving accounting—colleges are reporting near-perfect placement rates at $80K starting salaries

Once seen as boring and synonymous with tax season dread, accounting is now attracting Gen Z with high demand, near six-figure salaries, and...

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Only one U.S. university ranks in the world’s top 10 in STEM. Pfizer’s CEO is calling for change

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla warns U.S. and European universities are falling behind as Chinese institutions surge ahead in research output: “We need to...

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The world’s wealthiest families adopt these 7 key habits for success, according to JPMorgan

The secret to building serious wealth comes down to how often you pick up a book—a habit top minds like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett embrace.

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Gen Z millionaires are rushing into crypto—and they blame the risky bet on FOMO. Fear of missing out

As trillions shift to younger generations, high-net-worth Gen Z and Millennials are betting on crypto at far higher rates than Gen X and boomers.

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12 Fortune 500 CEOs worked for Pepsi. Delta’s Ed Bastian explains why it’s a leadership factory

On Fortune's Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, Bastian explained how PepsiCo's cutthroat talent culture prepared him to lead the most...

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Steve Jobs didn’t actually become a billionaire thanks to leading Apple—but rather from his work with a film company he bought off George Lucas

As Apple turns 50 years old, it wasn't the tech giant that made Steve Jobs a billionaire—but rather his $10 million bet on Pixar, long before the...

01.04.2026 20

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Forget free lunch and nap pods: AI startups are luring workers with soaring salaries—some recent computer science grads are making over $300,000

As Gen Z frets over the future of work thanks to AI, tech startups are dishing out sky-high six-figure salaries to secure top talent.

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