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This ‘hidden’ career path is in dire need of more workers—and it can pay Gen Z over $300,000 with no degree required

Six-figure salaries are within reach for Gen Z, but only if they’re willing to brave extreme weather, noisy tarmacs, and the smell of jet fumes.

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Bill Ackman’s $35 billion hedge fund has under 50 employees and all of them — from janitors to receptionists — own millions in company stock

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman says employee loyalty pays dividends—and he's willing to invest millions in stock awards and allowing summer remote...

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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says he’s ‘definitely pro’ wearing shorts into the office as Gen Z gets slammed for dressing inappropriately for work

While Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says he’s ‘pro’ wearing shorts in the office, 42% of workers disagree—and even one Gen Zer says ‘it feels so wrong.'

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Crypto billionaire Michael Saylor says he made $15 billion last year with ChatGPT—and has one rule: ‘Don’t try to outwork the robots’

In the age of AI, the key to building wealth isn’t trying to compete with machines—it’s using them to your advantage, says billionaire Michael Saylor.

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Forget work-life balance: Gen Z say their top priority is actually career growth, with 93% aspiring for the C-suite

Career growth is a higher priority for Gen Z than work-life balance, workplace culture, and even salary, according to a KPMG survey of interns.

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Despite dropping out of MIT to build $159 billion fintech Stripe, its CEO has a warning for Gen Z who want to copy him: ‘That was a poor intuition’

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison left MIT twice before building a $159 billion fintech firm—but says being a dropout isn’t key to seizing AI opportunity.

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Palantir shares jump 13% as U.S. AI demand sends revenue soaring past targets

Revenue surged 93% year over year as U.S. commercial sales climbed 149%, prompting Palantir to lift its full-year outlook above Wall Street...

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp celebrates 93% revenue growth as stock soars after blockbuster earnings: ‘For the first time people believe us’

Palantir’s AI software business delivered a blockbuster quarter, with revenue soaring 93% and shares jumping 14% after hours.

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Sam Altman reveals the investing advice billionaire Peter Thiel gave him that helped him amass a $3.3 billion net worth without OpenAI equity

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman owns no equity and earns a $76K salary—but says Peter Thiel and Paul Graham taught him how to build billions in investment...

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Crumbl CEO says he shuts shop on Sundays and prioritizes game nights with his 7 kids in pursuit of balance: Life can’t be ‘just go, go, go’

Crumbl cofounder Jason McGowan says his Mormon faith isn't the only reason his $1 billion-a-year cookie empire shuts down on Sundays—it's also about...

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Jensen Huang says ‘a lot’ of six-figure jobs in plumbing and construction will soon be unlocked because someone needs to build new AI centers

The AI boom is threatening white-collar, entry-level jobs—but the Nvidia CEO says it's creating a six-figure opportunity for electricians and...

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Jensen Huang says this is the greatest time in history to start a business—and his advice is to stop overthinking it: ‘How hard can it be?’

The billionaire CEO has spent the last three decades building Nvidia —but says one simple mindset helped turn a diner-booth idea into a $4.7...

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AI workers just got together and donated $40 million to save factory-farmed chickens

A viral tech podcast led to an influx of $40 million toward improving the lives of chickens, pigs, and other animals raised in industrial agriculture.

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He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead

Instead of selling Grady-White Boats for $400 million, Eddie Smith Jr. was inspired by Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard to donate profits to charity.

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South Korean teens are skipping degrees for semiconductor school—they’re landing six-figure jobs at 17 while their friends regret going to college

At one South Korean vocational high school, 96.4% of graduates land jobs—with many headed to Samsung and earning six-figure paychecks and $400K...

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As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, CEOs of Amazon, Citi, and McDonald’s say opportunity is still there—if you have the right mindset

From Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to Amazon boss Andy Jassy, Fortune 500 leaders have shared their advice for workers to thrive in today’s shaky job...

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Defense tech investors thought the war in Iran could make them millionaires. Instead, they faced a Wall Street bloodbath

Firms like Northrop Grumman are struggling on the market despite record military spending. Investors are now watching Congress—and a new generation...

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Japan’s prime minister sleeps just ‘zero to three’ hours a night—even as Tokyo pushes a 4-day workweek to fight ‘death by overwork’

As workers push for better work-life balance and four-day workweeks, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is moving in the opposite direction.

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Jamie Dimon says six-figure shipyard jobs are the new ‘American Dream’—but candidates will need to endure hours of extreme heat, cold, and rain

Shipyard jobs can pay upwards of $100K without a college degree—and nearly a quarter of a million maritime workers are needed. But it comes with...

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Today he’s the brains behind ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Oppenheimer,’ but the Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan was actually rejected from film school

Before Christopher Nolan became one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, he faced rejection: 'Film school didn’t want me.'

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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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Red Lobster’s 37-year-old CEO waited tables before joining the C-suite—he says it was a crash course in managing ‘difficult people and situations’

As Red Lobster rebounds from its “endless shrimp” bankruptcy, CEO Damola Adamolekun shares lessons from waiting tables and meeting Warren Buffett.

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With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises

Palantir CEO Alex Karp expects his fortune to grow to $300 billion thanks to AI—he says the U.S “biggest problem” is wealth going to unrelatable...

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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 300,000 workers are needed to rebuild American shipbuilding—with jobs paying $100,000 without a college degree

The American Dream now runs through the skilled trades, according to Jamie Dimon—and his bank is investing $24 million to ramp up training in...

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Blackstone’s president tells Gen Z that just being nice could land them a promotion because ‘people want you to win if you treat them in a good way’

Jon Gray, Blackstone's president and COO, says elite degrees may get you in the door, but caring more will set you apart for success.

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Gallup CEO says colonizing Mars may be closer than fixing today’s ‘broken’ workplace—where disengagement levels are as high as 2020

Four in five workers are disengaged. And Gallup CEO Jon Clifton warns there’s no recovery in sight: ‘We're closer to colonizing Mars.’

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This former U.S. soccer player built a $20 billion-a-year company. Now, he says resilience matters more than talent—and points to Lionel Messi as proof

Jim Kavanaugh, a former U.S. Olympian, says the habits that made him a top athlete also helped him build World Wide Technology, a multibillion-dollar...

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Americans are quietly abandoning the daily habit that billionaires say set them up for success—and it could have lasting consequences

Billionaires swear by books—but two in five Americans didn’t read a single one in 2025. Experts warn its decline among Americans, especially Gen...

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One Wall Street firm is paying its Gen Z interns fresh out of college $8,600 a week—more than the typical American makes in nearly two months

Susquehanna is offering master's and Ph.D. interns up to $86,000 for a 10-week summer, plus free housing, complimentary meals, and other perks.

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Harry Styles fans flew to Amsterdam, paid a 21% premium for hotels, and sent inflation soaring. One Gen Zer paid $1,000 for a tiny ‘box’ hotel room

Young people may be struggling with financial milestones, but Harry Styles fans in the Netherlands proved their spending power can catch bankers'...

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Self-made multimillionaire says Canadians ‘give no money away’ compared with Americans—research shows U.S. giving is more than twice as high

“If you are rich in the U.S., you give money away, but I could name you 100 very rich Canadians who give no money away,” ex-finance CEO Bill...

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Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warns the U.S. university system is falling behind China’s: ‘It generates a lot of worker bees’

The college dropout turned billionaire entrepreneur says while America teaches kids to dream big, China is teaching them to actually build.

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He went from working in a factory to being rich enough to retire at 32—but 3 decades later, this millionaire still works and takes public transport

Bill Holland, who led Canada's CI Financial for more than a decade, still rides public transit—a frugal mantra shared by Warren Buffett and Elon Musk.

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Ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi worked from midnight until 5 a.m. as a receptionist to pay for her Yale degree—and she says ‘respect went up’ because of it

The former PepsiCo CEO says grinding through overnight shifts as a Yale receptionist earned her respect no social connection could buy.

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Three dads started selling hats from a garage with $750—now they’ve sold $35 million worth, partnered with Gary Vee, and grown a community of fathers

What began as three friends talking about the struggles of fatherhood evolved into Dad Gang—a brand now that’s made $35 million selling over 1...

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Even as Elon Musk calls philanthropy ‘very hard,’ every day Americans gave a record $617 billion—despite feeling the squeeze over the cost of living

Donations from individuals hit $394B last year, but a 17% rise in bequests points to a shift in philanthropy driven by the Great Wealth Transfer.

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YouTube’s founders split over $650 million when they sold to Google in 2006—had they held out, they could have taken a slice of $550 billion

YouTube’s cofounders could all be part of the billionaire club alongside Google's Sundar Pichai had they kept the business: It’s grown some 333x...

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This investor won’t back startups unless staff are in the office 6 days a week: ‘Not because I don’t have empathy, because they’re going to fail’

SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin warns that companies allowing employees to work just 20 hours a week at home are destined to fail in the AI era.

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Wall Street billionaire turned an hour meeting with Disney’s cofounder into an entire day together—all he did was read a report most analysts ignored

Before building the $80 billion Wall Street giant KKR, Henry Kravis met with Walt Disney’s brother Roy and learned the importance of doing your...

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Dave Portnoy quit an $80K sales job to start Barstool—he hand-delivered papers in a secondhand van while living with his girlfriend’s mom for 6 years

Dave Portnoy left his cushy 9-to-5 and spent years delivering papers and even scooping dog waste before success. Now he’s worth $250 million.

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Cristiano Ronaldo is soccer’s first-ever billionaire: He went from begging for burgers outside McDonald’s to landing a $400 million contract

From humble beginnings to ultra wealthy status, Ronaldo’s $1.4 billion net worth proves the world’s most-followed athlete is also a wise businessman.

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Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away faster

A historic $124 trillion wealth transfer is underway, and many heirs are using their influence to pressure older generations to spend down fortunes...

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Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk

AI is eating entry-level jobs fast. And a new survey of 600 recruiters shows an MBA may no longer be the escape hatch it once was.

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Google CEO tells graduates to stop obsessing over first jobs because ‘very few moments are make or break’ in life—a lesson he learned in Vegas

Before leading the $4 trillion tech giant, Sundar Pichai says a spontaneous college trip to Las Vegas taught him a lesson Gen Z graduates need to...

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Amazon exec says AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs—and is hiring 11,000 grads and interns, and has more developers than 2 years ago to prove it

Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, is rejecting predictions of an entry-level job bloodbath, as he hires thousands of Gen Z talent.

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Team USA’s goalkeeper passed on Manchester United, the club that helped shape David Beckham’s career, for Harvard—and has zero regrets

Instead of joining the English club known for David Beckham, Matt Freese picked Harvard—but says the unconventional path is his secret goalkeeping...

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By 7 a.m., Bank of America’s CEO has already read 5 newspapers, his email inbox, and hit the gym—he says if you’re late to meetings, you’re ‘selfish’

Brian Moynihan says punctuality is a cornerstone of workplace respect, joining JPMorgan and Southwest CEOs with strong feelings about meetings.

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NBC’s Tom Llamas climbed from 15-year-old intern to the top anchor chair—and still isn’t satisfied: ‘If you’re not growing, you’re dying’

NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas shares his career advice for Gen Z, work-life balance philosophy, and why success starts with hustle.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says electricians and plumbers will be needed by the hundreds of thousands in the new working world

The $5 trillion tech CEO warns the future won’t be powered by tech bros—but rather the blue-collar workers.

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Cape Verde’s Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when he was recruited on LinkedIn to play soccer—he thought it was spam, now he’s at the World Cup

Roberto Lopes was working at a bank when a cold message changed his life. Seven years later, he's helping Cape Verde make World Cup history.

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