Leadership
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Gen Z grad landed an internship by wearing her university baseball cap to her pizza joint job. Now she works at Cisco
When every internship she applied to needed experience she didn’t have yet, one Gen Z grad took matters into her own hands and used a creative method to land a job. Gone are the days when you can walk into a job just weeks after throwing your graduation cap into the air. In today’s overcrowded…
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The Gen Z cofounder of $1.6 billion Whop says his platform has minted over 650 millionaires—he wants to make work fun and money worries obsolete
There’s a legion of workers sitting behind their desks and unloading trucks, fantasizing about one day chasing their dream careers. Now, hundreds of people have found million-dollar success by pursuing their passions on digital marketplace Whop. And its CEO, Steven Schwartz, wants to bring his vision to the masses. “The future’s gonna look like everyone…
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More and more of Musk’s companies end up under the same roof. Here’s a look at his sprawling empire
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and now first-ever trillionaire, controls a lot of different businesses. Electric vehicles. Brain implants. Underground tunnels. A social media platform once called Twitter. And a rocket maker that blasted off its trading from Wall Street this week. Over time, more and more of these ventures have found themselves under…
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Jamie Dimon says remote work breeds ‘rope-a-dope politics’ and stunts young workers’ growth
Jamie Dimon, who has led America’s largest bank, JPMorgan, for 20 years and through multiple recessions, blasted remote work and offered a stern warning for any younger generations who want to move up the career ladder: Get into the office. “If you go to a meeting with me, you got my full friggin’ attention the…
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CEO of $20 billion AI firm Perplexity says the secret to success is ‘sleeping with that fear’ that your competitor will steal your idea
Building a billion-dollar company is hard enough—but keeping others from stealing your big idea and doing it better might be even harder, says Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas. As Sam Altman and Mark Cuban predict AI will create a wave of new billionaire (and even trillionaire) founders, Srinivas says that looming threat should serve as motivation,…
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The ‘AI superstar’ CEO behind a self-driving truck unicorn on why Gen Z is a better hiring bet than industry veterans
Raquel Urtasun is a Gen Xer, but she’s putting her faith in Gen Z. The 50-year-old began her career in academia, working alongside the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, before building out Uber’s self-driving technology division. Now, the cofounder and CEO of the autonomous trucking unicorn Waabi, she realizes there’s a lot of fear and…
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SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen quietly engineered its historic IPO and became an overnight billionaire
While Elon Musk has extended his lead as the world’s richest man, the SpaceX IPO that made him a trillionaire has quietly boosted the wealth of thousands of his employees—from welders to his longtime lieutenants. Among that throng of people is Bret Johnsen, who has served as the company’s only chief financial officer and acted…
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AI can be a ‘secret sauce’ or a way of ‘democratizing mediocrity’—Here’s how business leaders are getting the best of the technology
Much of the marketing world is handing over creative tasks to AI with fairly mixed results. But Dan Murphy, who leads marketing at canned beverage brand Liquid Death, said AI models can’t get close to the unique original concepts human writers do. In the world of chief marketing officers, AI might not be the panacea…
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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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Why companies are treating AI as a strategic partner rather than a passive technology, and how to avoid an ‘AI hangover’
In corporate America, AI has moved far past the hype cycle into practical implementation. Autonomous agents are handling complex, real-world tasks on behalf of companies that go beyond simple data insights. But building operational AI at scale requires more than just raw algorithmic power. At Fortune Brainstorm Tech this week, executives from third-party logistics giant…