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He left big law, became a DJ to pay his bills, and built sports clubs inside refugee camps. Now he wants more members than Bayern Munich
At 18, Jan van Hövell brought a soccer ball to the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana during a 2004 internship with the UN Refugee Agency. He said it was a terrible system, just one ball from one intern, and thousands of kids with nothing to do. “I was the one bringing my football, and we would…
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‘PTO-maxxing’ is the summer hack turning 15 vacation days into 49 days off
For years, American workers have racked up trend names for the various ways they’ve checked out of corporate life. There was “quiet quitting,” then “bare minimum Mondays,” and more recently the “date them till you hate them” trend, in which disengaged employees stick around long enough to fall out of love with jobs they’ve already…
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Real estate billionaire launched his entire career after being called the ‘worst analyst’ and quitting his cushy job at Goldman Sachs
Being laid off, fired, or ousted from a high-powered company can feel career-ending. But for some, it’s a springboard for success. Mexican-American real estate mogul Fernando De Leon tossed the towel on his Goldman Sachs job after being told that he wasn’t the best fit for the $293.4 billion bank—and the setback put him on…
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Ex-Disney star Hilary Duff warns saying yes too much actually hurt her career: ‘Just because something is a good paycheck, it doesn’t mean it’s right’
Hilary Duff was catapulted into stardom as the lead of Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire when she was just 13, and the franchise quickly expanded far beyond television—spawning movies, merchandise, video games, and a level of fame few teenagers experience. But now she regrets saying yes to too much when her career was at its peak.…
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This billionaire is capping his kids’ inheritance at 8 figures—like Bill Gates, he thinks generational wealth is bad for society
Dylan Taylor made his first million at 27. Last year, he became a billionaire at 53, after taking his space-holding company, Voyager Technologies, public on the New York Stock Exchange. But don’t expect his two children to inherit all of it. “I’m not a huge believer in generational wealth transfer,” the founder and philanthropist tells…
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Kevin O’Leary slams people who want work-life balance: ‘I hope they work for my competitors’
While some workers believe they have every right to slam their laptop shut at 5 p.m. every day, Kevin O’Leary is staunchly against it. The Shark Tank star and chairman of O’Leary Ventures is so against it, in fact, he’d be happy for employees who believe in work-life balance to work elsewhere. “People that shut…
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Standard Chartered CEO apologizes for calling some workers ‘lower value human capital’ in AI push
Workers are anxiously awaiting the fate of their careers as more employers tout the opportunity to automate certain roles, and even whole departments. Bill Winters, the CEO of Standard Chartered, for example, recently said that “lower value human capital” can be replaced by advanced tech at the global bank—but after uproar ensued, he’s now backtracking…
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Ex-Google engineer turned $7.2 billion AI CEO gets thousands of job applications a day but still can’t find candidates with a strong work ethic
Millions of Gen Z graduates are convinced they’ve drawn the short straw of the labor market: ghosting is rife in recruiting, entry-level roles feel scarce, and predictions of an AI job apocalypse are making it all worse. Yet Arvind Jain, ex-Google engineer and Rubrik co-founder, says he’s facing the opposite problem. “Students think it’s hard…
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Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasts the 4-day week as the ‘stupidest idea’ because the digital economy means we’re always working
Millionaire Shark Tankjudge Kevin O’Leary isn’t a fan of the shift to a four-day workweek, laughing off the idea in a Fox News appearance. Instead, he said in today’s modern workplace, everything is project-based, and tasks need to be completed by their deadline: “There’s no such thing as a workweek anymore.” If you have dreams…
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Forget quiet quitting—4 in 10 millennials are taking ‘quiet vacations’ and checking out of work (and the country) on company dime instead
Nearly 4 in 10 millennials secretly take time off work and go on vacation behind their bosses back. They’re taking their work phone to the beach, and checking in on their emails every so often to not get caught. Here’s how to tell if your worker is one of them this summer. It feels like…