Success
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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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‘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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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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Before ‘Star Wars’ made him a multimillionaire, Harrison Ford struggled to make ends meet—so he spent 15 years working a trades side-gig
Harrison Ford is known to the world for helping turn characters like Han Solo and Indiana Jones into cultural legends. But before blockbuster Hollywood fame and multimillionaire status, Ford and his growing family were struggling to make ends meet. “Acting was not yet paying the bills,” he said this week during a commencement address at…
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Blackstone COO Jon Gray predicts ‘huge boom’ in blue-collar jobs—his own data center company is hiring 30,000 new roles
As generative AI threatens to upend the white-collar workforce, it’s creating a surge of opportunity in one corner of the labor market: the skilled trades. That’s at least according to Jon Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone—the biggest publicly-traded alternative asset manager—who predicted a “huge boom in blue-collar employment certainly over the next…
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Steve Jobs had a ‘beer test’ he used for interviews at Apple—if he didn’t want to drink with you, you didn’t get the job
Most job candidates walk into interviews armed with polished answers, rehearsed weaknesses, and a list of researched questions aimed to impress. But Apple’s Steve Jobs reportedly had a far less conventional way of deciding who got hired: the “beer test.” Instead of trying to catch candidates out with a trick question or quizzing them on…
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Despite having a $165 million net worth, Scarlett Johansson says work-life balance doesn’t exist—and the first step to success is admitting that
As workers search for the elusive balance between career ambitions and personal life, one of Hollywood’s highest-paid stars has a reality check. For Scarlett Johansson, the idea of perfectly balancing work and life is more fantasy than reality. “I think actually admitting that there is no work-life balance is the first step to getting there…
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Shaq’s father once gave his White Castle burgers to a homeless vet—and it inspired the NBA legend’s business and philanthropy empire
One small interaction or passing conversation can stick with entrepreneurs throughout their entire careers. For NBA legend Shaquille “Shaq” O’Neal, that lesson came from his father—and he’s lived by it throughout his journey spanning sports, business, and philanthropy. “My father was a drill sergeant, but he always told me to honor people. Treat people with…