Leadership
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Ex-Google engineer says Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai share the same trait—it’s the lesson he swears by as a $7.2 billion AI CEO
When Arvind Jain, the now co-founder of Rubrik and Glean, landed a job at Google, he felt like an “imposter”. The engineer had moved to America from a small town in Indiaand suddenly found himself surrounded by MIT and Stanford PhDs. So he made a point of quietly studying those around him. And one of…
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LinkedIn says real estate is one of the hottest industries for entry-level workers—One Gen Z sales agent made $75K his first year with no experience
This summer, millions of students are turning their tassels and heading into an uncertain job market. Aside from looking into the crowded fields of big tech and Wall Street, Gen Zers may have luck getting into real estate. Against all odds, the stubborn housing market has become a hotspot for young talent. In April, LinkedIn…
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One in 10 Gen Zers want their boss to be replaced by AI—they’re already being polite to ChatGPT just in case
Amid the frenzy that AI will result in mass job losses, there’s one role Gen Zers are secretly hoping the bots will replace: their boss. And 69% are already being polite to ChatGPT just in case. A 2025 study from essay writing service EduBirdie highlights that one in 10 Gen Z workers are pining for…
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Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away faster
Millennials and Gen Xers are facing down one of the greatest transfers of wealth in history—with some $124 trillion expected to change hands by 2048. But as wealth inequities simultaneously reach new extremes, the transfer has amplified questions about whether wealthy families are moving fast in their promises of impactful giving. According to a new…
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Stop blaming Gen Z for resisting RTO: 71% say they want a hybrid balance—and now they’re quietly leading the office comeback
Gen Z has been getting a lot of flak for their alleged workplace habits. Older generations assumed these newer entrants to the workforce don’t see the value of in-person exchanges—and that they’d be the loudest holdouts when return-to-office mandates landed. Years of data prove them wrong. Gallup’s most recent generational study found 71% of Gen…
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‘Don’t look at the résumé’: Elon Musk admits he’s ‘fallen prey’ to flashy credentials and says conversation matters most when hiring
In the race for tech dominance, finding the right workers isn’t so simple, says trilllionaire CEO Elon Musk. Musk is known for his micromanagement leadership style (which he has jokingly referred to as nanomanagement), and hiring is no different. In the early years of building SpaceX, he interviewed the first few thousand employees, before he…
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Gen Z’s hiring hell is real: 1 in 3 employers admit they’re replacing entry-level roles with AI—and tech and manufacturing jobs are most at risk
For Gen Z, the job market has looked more resilient than many feared. The unemployment rate hasn’t skyrocketed, and some of the bleakest predictions about AI wiping out entry-level jobs—including warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman—have been tempered by a labor market that has held up better than expected. However,…
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Stripe cofounder says Gen Z will need two college majors to compete thanks to AI—and investing legend Charlie Munger called it first
As AI takes over the routine tasks once designed to post-grad talent, leaders and young workers alike are questioning the value of a college degree. However, Stripe cofounder John Collison believes that going to school and doubling up on disciplines with two majors is the best way to stand out in the AI era—and the…
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Kids want to be influencers when they grow up, because they ‘gets lots of money’ and ‘they want to be famous’
A second grader in Norway drew a YouTube logo when my colleagues and I asked what they wanted to be when they grow up. When we asked why, the child explained that YouTubers are famous and make lots of money. When we asked second graders in Wisconsin this same question, we were surprised to often…
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Ken Griffin celebrates America’s 250th birthday with $26 million gift for new Roosevelt Library built into the Badlands
On July 4, 2026, as the United States marks its 250th birthday, a library will open in the North Dakota Badlands that looks less like a civic institution than a manifesto built in stone and steel. Designed by the international architecture firm Snøhetta, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora will be the nation’s only…