Leadership
-
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky warns two types of people won’t survive the AI era: ‘pure people managers’ and workers who resist change
Tech leaders have spent the past few years warning workers that AI will threaten every single job, from computer programming and customer service to law and finance. But according to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, the biggest risk to professionals isn’t the technology itself—it’s refusing to evolve alongside it. And in his view, there are two…
-
Mark Zuckerberg once gave a Facebook engineer startup advice at 2 a.m. while ‘hanging out with all the interns’—she quit and raised millions after
When Sophie Novati landed her first job as an engineering intern at Facebook in 2011, the social media giant was firmly in its “move fast and break things” era. “The energy was buzzing early Facebook,” the now-tech entrepreneur recalls to Fortune. “There were so many people just trying to build and ship cool stuff.” “It…
-
Here are the best hiring hotspots for recent graduates—cities in the Midwest and South are even outpacing career hubs like New York City
Graduation season is in full swing, and millions of budding professionals across America are turning their tassels and setting out to land their first full-time gigs. Growing Midwest and Southern cities are outshining hubs like New York and L.A. as the best destinations for new workers. Birmingham-Hoover, Alabama, is the top U.S. metropolitan area for…
-
At 75, Ted Turner told Fortune he gave himself 5 more years. He got 12—and spent them warning the world was ending
Ted Turner was never one to soften a forecast, even when the subject was himself. “At 75, how much longer will I live? Till 80 maybe?” the CNN founder told Fortune‘s Pattie Sellers in a wide-ranging 2013 interview marking his 75th birthday. When Sellers pushed back—why not 90?—Turner allowed it was “a possibility,” but said…
-
Inside Home Depot’s marketing playbook: weather signals, influencers, and an app to drive bigger baskets
Molly Battin, Home Depot’s chief marketing officer, oversees far more than advertising. Product sits within her organization as a shared function across marketing and technology, giving her influence over the digital tools customers use to search for products, plan projects, and shop through the app. At Home Depot, the path to purchase often begins there—on…
-
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff turned his earnings call into a vodcast. Why other Fortune 500 CEOs might follow
All the world’s a stage. Now that’s even true of the usually dull quarterly earnings call. In February, Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff turned his routine fourth-quarter earnings call into an influencer-style production. Clad in a black leather jacket and seated high above San Francisco in the Salesforce Tower, Benioff streamed his financial updates…
-
Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong replacing ‘pure managers’ with ‘player-coaches’ is another sign the org chart is changing in a big way
On Tuesday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced he was laying off 14% of the company’s workforce—just under 700 people — and turning the company’s org chart upside down. Out went what Armstrong calls “pure managers.” In came “player-coaches,” flat hierarchies capped at five layers, and “AI-native pods” that could include one-person teams directing agents that…
-
America 250 Chair: Americans are giving less. July 4th can be a day to change that
Charitable giving, once a defining feature of American life, is quietly slipping out of fashion. In recent years, the share of Americans who donate to charity has fallen sharply. Two decades ago, roughly two-thirds of US households gave to charitable causes. Today, it’s closer to half. Among the ultra-wealthy, there is a new and growing…
-
Tokyo is throwing out its strict office dress code and asking workers to wear shorts amid the war in Iran energy crisis
As the summer rolls in, many dreams of jet-setting vacations are being dashed as fuel prices spike during the ongoing war in Iran. But it’s not the only way people are pivoting—workers in Japan are even being asked to ditch the slacks and opt for bare-legged attire at the office. The Tokyo metropolitan government recently…
-
GameStop’s billionaire CEO is an entrepreneur without a college degree who cofounded Chewy. Now he has his sights set on buying eBay for $56 billion
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is a billionaire entrepreneur who is known for taking big risks. Yet, his biggest challenge may be his attempt to revive the struggling gaming retail chain. With GameStop’s unsolicited $56 billion offer to buy eBay this week, Cohen, who has an estimated net worth of $5 billion, has once again been…