C-Suite
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On the day of a historic IPO, SpaceX’s president is already hinting at a Tesla merger: ‘That might make Elon Musk’s life a little easier’
On the day of SpaceX’s highly anticipated IPO, president Gwynne Shotwell hinted at a move many analysts increasingly expect—that Elon Musk’s two public companies will someday merge to form a Musk empire. In an interview with CNBC, she said a megamerger “might make Elon’s life a little easier, actually.” “There’s no question that there’s synergies…
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Upstate New York sticker mogul has a bronze Trump statue, MAGA hip-hop album and a presidential endorsement. The local machine wants the Marine
Republican political candidates routinely highlight their devotion to President Donald Trump. But in upstate New York, Anthony Constantino is taking it to another level. Constantino, a political newcomer and candidate in the June 23 Republican primary to succeed Rep. Elise Stefanik, boasts a giant “Vote for Trump” sign atop his successful sticker business in the…
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The chaos at CBS News shows the limits of ‘blow it up’ leadership
Bari Weiss never intended to play things safe. “I wanna blow this up,” she reportedly told colleagues early in her tenure as editor-in-chief of CBS News, the legacy broadcaster whose parent company, Paramount, bought her news and opinion site, the Free Press, in October. Paramount CEO David Ellison appointed Weiss to remake CBS News as…
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Jamie Laing thinks tomorrow’s Fortune 500 will be built by creators. He might be right
“The next big business owners are going to be content creators,” Jamie Laing, the reality star-turned-sweet entrepreneur, tells Fortune. “I don’t think Coca-Cola can really come up any more without a content creator helping build the brand.” Those may sound like fighting words from—surprise, surprise—a content creator. But there are signs the future may one…
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Opening offices in 120 countries is ‘not a badge of honor’—pick 30 instead says iconic former tech CEO
When startups hit hyper-growth phase, they look to go global. That’s a good strategy—until it’s not. According to Meg Whitman, who enjoyed a run as one of the dominant CEOs in Silicon Valley, her experience leading HP and eBay taught her that, when it comes to global expansion, there can be too much of a…
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Exclusive: Goldman Sachs intern acceptance rate falls below 1% for third straight year
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says artificial intelligence will “probably” reduce the number of people his firm hires in the coming years. His 2026 intern class tells a more complicated story. The bank accepted fewer than one in 100 applicants for its summer internship program this year, maintaining a sub-1% selection rate for the third…
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The CEO question that stumped a room full of COOs
One of the more striking moments at this year’s Fortune COO Summit came when Dennis Woodside, the CEO of Freshworks and a former COO of Dropbox, asked the room a simple question: Who wants to be a CEO? Not many hands went up. Woodside found that surprising. His view, he told the crowd, is that…
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says his highly disciplined daily routine has ‘fallen to crap’—and now unwinds on weekends at a ranch with no cell phone service
As OpenAI prepares for a potential trillion-dollar IPO, and revels its in recent victory over Elon Musk who claimed the company tried to “steal a charity”, CEO Sam Altman has had his hands full. But earlier this year, Altman, 41, said he’s taking things more slowly—at least on the weekends—focusing on his family and scaling…
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The CEO who loves AI autodidacts — and desperately needs his experts
Bob Bradway has a word for the kind of leader who will thrive in the AI era: “autodidact.” Curious. Self-taught. Comfortable with uncertainty. The kind of person who picks up a new tool on a Saturday and figures it out by Sunday — which, as it happens, is exactly what Bradway himself does. The Amgen…
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It’s not Buffett’s Berkshire anymore as Greg Abel splashes $16.8 billion in cash, hints at different way of doing business
Berkshire Hathaway‘s new CEO Greg Abel started off the week with a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison and then followed that up Monday with a $10 billion stock investment in Google’s parent company. Abel also hinted that he may depart from Warren Buffett‘s longtime hands-off operating model by consolidating Taylor Morrison with Berkshire’s existing site-built homebuilding…