Success
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Apple cofounder Ronald Wayne—whose stake would be worth up to $400 billion had he not sold it in 1976—says that at 91, he has no regrets
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the names most closely tied to Apple, one of the most valuable companies in history. But 50 years ago, when they were putting pen to paper and officially founding the company, there was a third, lesser-known signature on that document: Ronald G. Wayne. At the time, Wayne was an
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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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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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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
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‘Godmother of Silicon Valley’ Esther Wojcicki, mother of the YouTube and 23andMe CEOs, shares her secret to raising future leaders
Every parent wants their child to succeed, but some parents, like Esther Wojcicki, are especially adept at inspiring greatness in their child. Dubbed the “Godmother of Silicon Valley,” Wojcicki is the mother of Susan Wojcicki, the late YouTube CEO who left a secure job at Intel to help start Google out of her garage. She’s
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Nearly half of working-age Americans don’t have a retirement account—even 40% of workers nearing their 60s don’t have any money stored away
American workers have dreams of throwing in the towel by their mid-60s and spending the rest of their days in cushy retirement—but it’s become less of a reality for most. In fact, many professionals aging towards their workforce exit could make the leap with thin financial safety nets. Nearly half of working-age Americans in the