Success
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Michelle Obama clarifies her famous ‘Go high’ motto: It’s not about anger or pain, but more about putting a safety lock on a gun
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, former first lady Michelle Obama addressed her family’s haters: “When they go low, we go high.” It’s a simple yet profound motto she and her family adopted to address those who act cruelly, and they’ve chosen to respond with dignity, principle, and grace rather than stoop to their bullies’…
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Kevin O’Leary says being liked has nothing to do with success—Steve Jobs taught him: ‘You can’t worry about whose feelings you bruise’
CEOs take on all sorts of personas, from the benevolent leader to the cutthroat business executive. Millionaire entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary is famous for his brutally honest, intimidating aura on-screen as a Shark Tank investor—and some of that leadership style rubbed off on him from working with the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. “I don’t think…
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Gen Z grad landed an internship by wearing her university baseball cap to her pizza joint job. Now she works at Cisco
When every internship she applied to needed experience she didn’t have yet, one Gen Z grad took matters into her own hands and used a creative method to land a job. Gone are the days when you can walk into a job just weeks after throwing your graduation cap into the air. In today’s overcrowded…
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The Gen Z cofounder of $1.6 billion Whop says his platform has minted over 650 millionaires—he wants to make work fun and money worries obsolete
There’s a legion of workers sitting behind their desks and unloading trucks, fantasizing about one day chasing their dream careers. Now, hundreds of people have found million-dollar success by pursuing their passions on digital marketplace Whop. And its CEO, Steven Schwartz, wants to bring his vision to the masses. “The future’s gonna look like everyone…
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Jamie Dimon says remote work breeds ‘rope-a-dope politics’ and stunts young workers’ growth
Jamie Dimon, who has led America’s largest bank, JPMorgan, for 20 years and through multiple recessions, blasted remote work and offered a stern warning for any younger generations who want to move up the career ladder: Get into the office. “If you go to a meeting with me, you got my full friggin’ attention the…
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CEO of $20 billion AI firm Perplexity says the secret to success is ‘sleeping with that fear’ that your competitor will steal your idea
Building a billion-dollar company is hard enough—but keeping others from stealing your big idea and doing it better might be even harder, says Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas. As Sam Altman and Mark Cuban predict AI will create a wave of new billionaire (and even trillionaire) founders, Srinivas says that looming threat should serve as motivation,…
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The ‘AI superstar’ CEO behind a self-driving truck unicorn on why Gen Z is a better hiring bet than industry veterans
Raquel Urtasun is a Gen Xer, but she’s putting her faith in Gen Z. The 50-year-old began her career in academia, working alongside the “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton, before building out Uber’s self-driving technology division. Now, the cofounder and CEO of the autonomous trucking unicorn Waabi, she realizes there’s a lot of fear and…
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Ex-Disney star Bridgit Mendler says being rejected hundreds of times by Hollywood gives her the same ‘traditional background’ as other space CEOs
To Gen Z, Bridgit Mendler is a Disney Channel star—known from her hit childhood roles on Good Luck Charlie and Lemonade Mouth. But in Silicon Valley, she’s known as the founder and CEO of Northwood, a space startup that recently closed a $100 million Series B funding round. Looking back now, at 33, she says…
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American taxpayers have spent $33 billion on sports stadiums. They got fewer seats—and higher prices
When the Buffalo Bills open their $2.2 billion Highmark Stadium this September, they’ll be opening the NFL’s smallest venue: 60,108 seats, down from the 71,608 the old stadium held. And to make that happen, New York State and Erie County paid $850 million in public funds, resulting in 11,500 fewer seats, with personal seat licenses…
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Olympic champion Shaun White says AI is ‘leveling the playing field’ for professional athletes
Olympic snowboarder Shaun White said he came from “pretty humble beginnings” without the same advantages as his rivals. The San Diego native didn’t live in the snowy mountains, and it was expensive to afford lift tickets, lodging, and food for a family of five growing up. “You’re seeing athletes there with full-time coaches,” White told…