Leadership
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Dario Amodei only has 1 direct report, his chief of staff—and everyone else reports to his sister: ‘It’s incredibly freeing’
Dario Amodei has built Anthropic, the company behind Claude, into one of the most successful startups in history—reaching a staggering $965 billion valuation and positioning the company for an IPO. And all this time, he’s been growing the business while managing just one person: his chief of staff. Every other senior leader at Anthropic reports…
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Meet the CEO of US Polo Assn: He grew up in one of America’s poorest regions and now hosts Prince William and runs a $2.7 billion brand
Polo has long been called the “Sport of Kings”—a world of manicured lawns, champagne, and generational wealth. So you’d be forgiven for thinking the CEO of a $2.7 billion global heritage polo brand comes from old money connections, with an Ivy League education and a corner office inherited rather than earned. But U.S. Polo Assn’s…
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Anne Hathaway says she was spammed with ChatGPT-written thank you notes after hiring a recent role: ‘Nobody on that list gets that job’
Anne Hathaway has a warning for anyone using ChatGPT to help write their job application thank you notes: She can tell. In the age of AI, it’s never been easier to apply for thousands of roles at once. But as the Oscar-winning actress revealed while hiring for a recent role, it’s never been easier to…
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Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer once mocked Google Chrome, calling it a ‘rounding error’—Google CEO says the jab became fuel to keep going
Before Google CEO Sundar Pichai became the leader of the now-$4.5 trillion tech giant, he had to prove his worth as a leader—starting with a browser almost no one believed in. When Chrome launched in 2008, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was the industry dominator, with roughly 60% of global browser usage thanks to being the default…
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Kevin O’Leary slams work-life balance, saying it’s complete nonsense and founders should work ’25 hours a day, 8 days a week’
Kevin O’Leary has built a brand on saying the things other investors won’t. His latest target is the idea that founders can build something great while protecting their personal time. Speaking on Harvard Business School’s The Founder Mindset podcast, hosted by senior lecturer and serial entrepreneur Reza Satchu, the Shark Tank investor argued that anyone…
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‘I have nothing to lose’: Perplexity CEO says fear of failure is ‘the stupidest thing’ holding you back
As workers grapple with layoffs, AI disruption, and the constant pressure to prove their worth, self-doubt can feel like an unavoidable part of building a career. But Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of AI giant Perplexity, says that operating under the fear of failure only holds back success. He carved out his place in the trillion-dollar…
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The man who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union and helped wealthy Chinese move to Canada sees a familiar picture in America
Nuri Katz was a 24-year-old college student when he moved to Moscow in 1990 from his native Moscow. Though he didn’t plan to stay long, he ended up living there for two decades—long enough to watch the Soviet Union come apart at the seams. “I would have looked at you like you were crazy if…
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A 76-year-old was about to lose his entire $3 million retirement to a scam. TIAA’s AI caught it—but a human prevented disaster
Artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era for scammers. Within seconds, the technology can clone voices, generate convincing emails, and create realistic deepfakes capable of tricking victims into handing over life savings. Put simply by TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett on an episode of Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast: “There are so…
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He fled Iran for the American dream, became a millionaire, and could have retired—instead, he built the health tech that saved his father from cancer
Ardy Arianpour fled Tehran at six years old with his family and four suitcases. Forty years later, he’s helped scale a $1 billion acquisition, saved his father’s life with his own technology, and built a health data platform sitting on 150 million patient records. The 46-year-old founder and CEO of Seqster grew up in San…
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Citi, Ford, and Experian share their strategies for scaling AI agents
“To be able to trust, you need to be able to see what is happening.” This seemingly simple maxim is at the heart of today’s AI rollouts across the business landscape, according to Laura Heisman, the chief marketing officer of Dynatrace. “That’s probably the biggest conversation that everybody is having across all industries. We hear…