Leadership
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EXCLUSIVE: An hour in the Oval Office with the CEO-in-Chief, President Trump
President Trump can’t believe Jensen Huang doesn’t own his own plane. Hours before he departs for his highly anticipated China summit, the president has been arranging for the billionaire cofounder of Nvidia to join the who’s who of Fortune 500 CEOs preparing to travel to Beijing. Also in the group are Citigroup’s Jane Fraser, arguably…
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This community college student is America’s entrant in the Olympics of skilled trades. ‘I always wanted to be the first female to do something’
Growing up, Mikala Sposito dreamed of being a trailblazer. “I always wanted to be the first female to do something,” she said. That dream is about to be realized. The 21-year-old from Dexter, Michigan, will be the first woman to represent the United States in welding at the WorldSkills Competition in China. Sposito, a student…
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Gen Z is right about the job hunt—it really is worse than it was for millennials, with nearly 60% of fresh-faced grads frozen out of the workforce
Gen Z is slammed for complaining about how tough it is to work five days in-office, or even get a job in the first place—but their suspicions may be true. Research has confirmed, their older millennial critics had a far easier time locking down a gig to begin with. About 58% of students who graduated…
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Zillow CEO doubles down on remote-work model: ‘There is talent everywhere in this country’
While some business leaders are leaning hard on return-to-office mandates, Zillow’s CEO is taking the opposite approach and seeking talent wherever they are based. CEO Jeremy Wacksman, who has led the company since August 2024, said the decision to cultivate a remote-first workforce—an effort the company calls “CloudHQ”—has led to stronger demand for its jobs…
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‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix
“What, like it’s hard?” While it’s an iconic line from her career-making film Legally Blonde, it’s also a mantra that Reese Witherspoon lives by. The actress-turned-media-company owner has long had the grit required to ideate, found, and ultimately sell a near-billion-dollar company that flipped Hollywood’s script on its head. By the time Witherspoon was 34,…
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Gen Z calls degrees ‘useless’—but 20 years of data tells a different story: graduates are still the least likely to be unemployed
Gen Z and millennials alike have been writing off their degree as worthless. And it’s not hard to see why: Entry-level corporate jobs have been slashed, promotions are “peanuts”, and the new wave of young millionaires are trade workers turned business owners and AI entrepreneurs. But actually, graduates are still the least likely to be…
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‘You’re not a hero, you’re a liability’: Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary warns Gen Z founders to stop glorifying hustle culture
Gen Z founders chasing their big break are facing a modern-day catch-22: protect their mental health or sacrifice work-life balance in pursuit of success. Shark Tank investor and millionaire Kevin O’Leary has clear advice for Gen Z founders weighing how to spend their time. “The worst advice I hear young founders talk about all the…
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Top Chef’s Tom Colicchio got a 15x return on a tech company most Americans have never heard of. He thinks his own industry is broken
About a decade ago, Tom Colicchio started writing checks. Not large ones at first, and not on his own thesis—he is the first to say he doesn’t have the wherewithal to evaluate a company. His method was to find people who did, watch what they were putting in, and ride alongside if the conviction looked…
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Gen Z wants AI-proof jobs. The president of a 50-property hotel chain says hospitality is hiding in plain sight
As leaders like Elon Musk predict that work will be optional in a few years, more workers may soon find themselves lounging at the resorts of their choosing. But in the meantime, as the class of 2026 transitions from students to the newest members of the workforce, the hunt is on to find AI-proof career…
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AI’s cyborg problem: you have to embrace it to really succeed but 90% of people can’t or don’t want to
A few weeks ago, I became briefly famous for the wrong reasons. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about how I use AI in my work as an editor at Fortune — prompting drafts, synthesizing interviews, and accelerating a reporting process that used to take me twice as long. The response was swift, loud,…