Leadership
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This 39-year-old quit his lineman job during the pandemic and built a $50 million company in his backyard
On December 30, 2020, Josh Smith did something most people would consider reckless. He walked away from his job as a journeyman lineman for the power company — a union position, with union pay, in the middle of a pandemic — and bet everything on a knife company he’d been dreaming about for two decades.…
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Former Tesla president shares the secret to success he learned from his former boss, Elon Musk: ‘He demands to only work with world-class talent’
With a sprawling empire spanning electric vehicles, rockets, artificial intelligence, and social media, Elon Musk has built a reputation as one of the most influential—and unconventional business leaders of the modern era. And as SpaceX eyes a potentially record-setting public offering, the billionaire’s path to potentially becoming the world’s first trillionaire is once again fueling…
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Beyond the diploma: Skills that actually get graduates hired
The class of 2026 is walking into one of the most unforgiving job markets in recent memory — and HR leaders are increasingly worried that the traditional on-ramps into corporate America are buckling under the weight of AI, shrinking entry-level roles, and a generation losing faith in the system. At Fortune‘s Workplace Innovation Summit this…
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Indeed chief economist says we’re entering an era of ‘great mismatch’ thanks to a generational imbalance of workers
The modern workforce has no shortage of white-collar tensions—from return-to-office mandates to AI anxiety and Slack etiquette wars. But another issue is quietly creeping into the workforce—one rooted not in technology or bureaucracy, but in age. America’s population is aging rapidly, and there aren’t enough young workers to backfill their critical roles; Svenja Gudell, chief…
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Steve Wozniak says he didn’t cofound Apple to ‘make money’—he only did it because he was rejected by HP 5 times, and for years his pay was just $50
Together with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne, Steve Wozniak set Apple on a path toward changing the world in 1976, when the trio officially founded the computer company. And while Apple is one of the world’s most valuable businesses today—with a market capitalization of roughly $4.5 trillion and globe-changing products like the iPhone, iPad, and…
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Top economist Tyler Cowen on the biggest problem of the AI age: not mass unemployment but adjusting to a new reality
The dystopian scenario has become familiar: artificial intelligence sweeps through the economy, machines take the jobs, and workers are left behind. Tyler Cowen doesn’t buy it — but his alternative isn’t exactly reassuring. “AI will not bring mass unemployment,” the George Mason University economist and Bloomberg columnist said during a keynote at the Sana AI…
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Founder of Ms. Anti Work says her ‘lazy girl job’ allowed her to only work a few hours a day—and she built her media company on the side
America is famed for its workaholic, career-centered culture where dedication to a job is worn as a badge of honor. However, young professionals have been pushing back against the grind by embracing a softer approach with trends like the “lazy girl” or “snail girl” jobs: white-collar gigs with a favorable work-life balance. Gabrielle Judge, a…
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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
For roughly 76 million American households, federal income taxes could eventually disappear—if a proposal by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ever becomes reality. The now Blue Origin owner argued in a recent interview with CNBC that the bottom half of U.S. earners should pay no income tax, saying that working Americans shouldn’t be placed under…
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MacKenzie Scott gave away more than $7 billion last year—but her secretive style got her snubbed from a top donors list
Thanks to multiple historic donations last year and an eye-popping volume of philanthropic gifts, MacKenzie Scott has etched her way to becoming one of the world’s most generous philanthropists. But the Chronicle of Philanthropy doesn’t see it that way. Although Scott donated more than $7 billion to more than 120 organizations last year through her…
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Sheryl Sandberg tells Gen Z the 10-year career plan is dead as AI wipes out entry-level jobs: ‘Don’t script your career when the future is uncertain’
For generations, graduates have been advised to map out their careers: Pick a job, plot the promotions, and know exactly where you want to be in 10 years. But ex-Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg thinks that advice is dangerously outdated. “Don’t script your career when the future is uncertain,” the former chief operating officer of Meta…