Leadership
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NASA advisor turned $65 billion founder says ex-Intel CEO Andy Grove helped him get out of a crisis: ‘That’s a lesson I will take to my grave’
When a business is on the brink of crisis, CEOs assemble their war rooms of execs and board members to strategize a way out. But Bloom Energy CEO K.R. Sridhar says leaders may be overlooking one secret weapon in their arsenal: their employees. Sridhar learned this lesson firsthand from former Intel CEO Andy Grove, whose…
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Meet the founder who started over at 50 and worked 20-hour days to build a multimillion dollar cookie dough empire—and still won’t take a day off
At 50, most people are thinking about winding down; Kathryn Bricken decided to start again. The Miami-born founder turned a side project—balling cookie dough with an ice-cream scoop in her garage—into Doughlicious, a multi-million-dollar sweet-treat brand that produces more than a million cookie dough and gelato bites every single week. Her route there was anything…
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‘You feel radicalized’: A Meta AI exec watched agents beat her top workers. Now she’s built a nonprofit to help Gen Z find jobs before they disappear
Every job is an AI job now. That’s at least how Clara Shih sees it. The former AI exec at Meta and Salesforce, has seen the future of the job market, and it’s a workforce fully enabled by AI. Shih has worked in AI for 20 years. But the turning point came for her last…
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Apple’s Steve Jobs told students to never ‘settle’ in their careers: ‘If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking’
More than four decades since Apple’s IPO, the company is now worth $4 trillion—but its rise was anything but a straight shot to the top. The business’ late cofounder Steve Jobs weathered near-bankruptcy, and was even ousted from the company he had built, before returning and setting the stage for Apple’s resurgence. But what kept…
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This CEO lived on canned soup and took just two days off for his daughter’s birth. Now he admits he lost sight of proper work-life balance
The grind to success can be long, punishing, and it can quietly take more than it gives. Ron Schneidermann knows that better than most. After scaling his first company, Liftopia, into a business with more than $60 million in annual revenue, he went on to become CEO of AllTrails, the popular hiking map app. And…
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Exclusive: Michael Boes talks being named the first-ever chief MAHA officer. ‘Nothing’s been off the table’
Michael Boes, a former adviser at the Health and Human Services Department who worked under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is stepping into a newly created role at Steak ’n Shake: chief MAHA officer. The job, announced this week, will revolve around the nutrition, ingredients, and healthfulness of the restaurant chain’s food offerings. Boes said the…
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‘This is a ‘come to Jesus moment’: Ford CEO says American carmakers are battling a perfect storm
Ford CEO Jim Farley, the leader of the 122-year-old company that democratized the car for everyday Americans, said carmakers are facing three “perfect-storm moments” that could prove existential. Farley took over as CEO in 2020, but has worked at the automaker since 2007. Before that, he spent nearly 20 years at Toyota. Now, he thinks…
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With entry-level jobs vanishing, Gen Z grads are ditching corporate America—piecing together careers with entrepreneurship, gig work and freelancing
College was once a one-way ticket to a secure, full-time job with health care and a 401(k). But in the AI age, it’s becoming less of a reality and more of a faraway dream. That’s most apparent to recent graduates. Today, instead of betting on a full-time job, more Gen Z graduates are looking to…
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Meta executive says he only gets stressed five times a year and that it’s actually a ‘useful signal’
CEOs and workers alike struggle with intense pressure from unmanageable workloads, mounting job responsibilities, and lofty business expectations. However Meta’s chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, is good at keeping his cool amid the heat in leading the $1.69 trillion business; If anything, stress is a helpful cue rather than a debilitating feeling. “I don’t feel…
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Forget LinkedIn—Amazon’s Andy Jassy started a chicken wing eating club to network when he first moved to Seattle for work
Moving to a new city and starting a new job can be one of the most intimidating parts of building a career. You have to make new friends, rebuild your local network, and, in Andy Jassy’s case, find the best spots for buffalo chicken wings. Now the CEO of Amazon, Jassy was just another new…