Claire Smilow has spent years scouting talented people before they become the next big thing in tech. That instinct paid off in 2019, when she was blown away by a sophomore at MIT who already had a strategic and commercial vision. Smilow played the long game in seeing his talents through—and it led to a
At 9 p.m. on a recent Friday night, Max Harding had just returned from a barefoot run in the woods. The eccentric 20-year-old Californian was back in a large barn in rural Pennsylvania — still barefoot — alternatively working on his startup and asking me about the point of life. Though not an especially adept
A low-hire, low-fire labor market has made breaking into the workforce brutally hard for Gen Z. But while most young people are struggling to land their first opportunity, some have jumped the line by building their own small businesses and startups—and young founders are now ramping up hiring even as companies across industries slow theirs.
The landscape for money is shifting, and top executives say that the Great Wealth Transfer, the new generation of entrepreneurs, and veterans are paving the way. At Fortune’s 26th annual Most Powerful Women conference in Santa Barbara, Deloitte U.S. federal health sector leader Beth Meagher said that women are poised to play a huge role
Millionaire Timothy (or Tim) Armoo made his first fortune at 17, before he could even legally vote. He blew through every penny of it before he turned 19. “I made my first bit of money at 17—that was the first business that I meaningfully sold,” Armoo told Fortune. “And then I lost all that money
The entrepreneur behind TikTok and Douyin is now the richest person in Asia—and AI is helping fuel his rise to the top. Zhang Yiming, the founder of TikTok parent company ByteDance, has just overtaken Indian tycoon Gautam Adani as the richest person in Asia, according to Bloomberg, who currently boasts a net worth of $104.8
