The Foolproof Leadership Strategy to Grow Your Business (Sanely)

If your team can’t function without you in the room, you don’t have a team, you have a dependency.

Inside Harvard Business School’s Founder Foundry

Join us as we sit in on Reza Satchu's popular Founder Mindset course.

Michael Polsky’s Latest Reinvention, Politics Be Damned

Invenergy’s founder is betting on engineering, not ideology, to power the future.

Grievance Politics Clock In to Work

And they're creating new challenges for business owners.

Y Combinator’s Request for New Startups

Here's what YC partners are looking to invest in.

Gen-Z’s Career Minimalism

They don't see management in their five-year plan.

That Time AI Ran a Passive Income Small Business

Hilarity ensued!

Consultants Are the New C-Suite

Layoffs have sent an elite pool of talent into the consulting world.

Hiring is Broken. And Not the Way You Think

The old rules of job hunting don’t work anymore. Here’s what it means for anyone trying to hire in today’s market.

The Fight of Their Lives: Entrepreneurs Rebuilding After Fires, Floods, and Hurricanes

Business owners from Altadena, California, to Asheville, North Carolina, share firsthand accounts of how they’re picking up the pieces—and refusing to be defeated.

Feeding a $6 Billion Innovation Machine

The company, known for its viral gadgets (Ninja Slushi, anyone?) has an array of programs teaching students product design, pitching, and more.

The Founders Getting the Party Started

Shreya Murthy and Joy Tao have bottled the chaotic energy of a generation into their popular party-planning app, with a dose of Timothée Chalamet for good measure.

The Spiciest Startup in Media

As late-night TV fades, the new chief creative officer of First We Feast is reinventing the business, one viral celebrity interview at a time.

Alexis Ohanian Saves the World

Reddit’s co-founder is older, wiser, and looking for opportunities to fund companies that build the kind of society he wants for his daughters.

Canva Deigns an AI-Powered Rocketship

Three Aussie founders built Canva by being very mindful of how they hire—and whom they keep.

The Man Silicon Valley Reads Every Morning

After a rare medical syndrome sidelined Ni’s career, he created a popular suite of tech newsletters that boasts seven million subscribers.

Jenni Kayne’s $140 Million California Chic

The designer’s eponymous company built a massive following with 50 shades of beige. As her palette grows, will her ambitions?

How Tecovas Mainstreams Western Culture

The Green Gummy Guru

Grüns, the gummy vitamin startup, is growing as fast as an AI company.

How Todd Graves built Raising Cane’s into a juggernaut that’s surpassed KFC

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