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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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One U.S. college is fixing tuition at just 10% of parental income: ‘We’re not hiding the cost of college behind secret formulas’
Many U.S. college degrees now come with a six-figure price tag, forcing families into debt and stunting the financial livelihood of young workers. But at one small liberal arts school in the U.S., students don’t have to choose between academic ambition and a lifetime of payments. Whitman College, a private college in Walla Walla, Washington,…
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Google CEO tells graduates to stop obsessing over first jobs because ‘very few moments are make or break’ in life—a lesson he learned in Vegas
There’s a lot weighing on Gen Z these days: landing a first job, navigating an AI-powered workplace, and figuring out whether traditional milestones like homeownership are still within reach. But instead of trying to come up with solutions to endless anxiety-inducing problems, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently offered a simple antidote to the workforce’s youngest…
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TIAA’s CEO made $26,000 in her first job but still maxed out her 401(k). She has advice for Gen Z
For young workers watching their salaries get eaten up by rent, groceries, and student loans, setting aside money for retirement can fall to the bottom of their list. But making little sacrifices over time is one of the best paths to ride out post-career days in comfort, according to TIAAPresident and CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett.…
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MacKenzie Scott alone accounted for one-third of America’s $19.2 billion in megagifts last year
Despite wanting to keep her gigantic philanthropy quiet, MacKenzie Scott’s giving keeps making a splash. Of the $19.2 worth of megagifts made by donors in 2025, Scott’s giving represented one-third, according to data provided to Fortune from Giving USA and the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff…
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Ikea’s billionaire founder was so frugal that he bought clothes from flea markets and took free salt and pepper from restaurants
As the saying goes, watch the pennies and the pounds look after themselves. But as it turns out, even some of the wealthiest people on the planet follow the money-saving mantra, well after they’ve made it. IKEA’s billionaire founder, Ingvar Kamprad, took his love for budget furniture home with him—literally. Despite having an estimated $58.7…
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Getting past the pilot: Why so many AI test projects have trouble scaling
It’s an increasingly common tale within corporations today: The AI project performs admirably in testing during the pilot phase, gets the green light for a broader rollout…and then stops working properly; Or it fails to deliver the expected business results. Finger pointing, recriminations, and embarrassment ensue. The problem is not always the technology. In fact,…
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‘Wipe out and change are different’: Amazon exec slams AI job apocalypse fears as he hires thousands of Gen Z grads
As Silicon Valley debates whether AI will replace millions of office workers, one of the executives building the technology’s underlying infrastructure says Gen Z shouldn’t buy into the apocalyptic job displacement predictions. Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web Services, argued that forecasts of mass white-collar job losses—including warnings from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodeithat AI could…
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Tesla cofounder JB Straubel’s first pitch to Elon Musk failed. Then he turned his ‘hobby’ into a $1.3 trillion success
Before Tesla became a $1.3 trillion juggernaut eyeing a potential megamerger with SpaceX, Elon Musk was writing a check to a then-27-year-old Stanford engineer who couldn’t get anyone to take his electric car idea seriously. JB Straubel had spent years building solar-powered vehicles in his spare time “basically as a hobby,” he told Fortune earlier…
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Now she’s worth $200 million. But Sarah Jessica Parker says being ‘one of eight kids that struggled financially’ growing up created her work ethic
Today, Sarah Jessica Parker has around a $200 million net worth, too many Manolo Blahniks to count, and a mega-mansion in Manhattan’s West Village. But before becoming Carrie Bradshaw and earning more than $1 million per episode of And Just Like That, the star says her family couldn’t always afford electricity or to celebrate Christmas.…