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Chess.com cofounder says it took a pinch of delusion to bring the traditional game online—and it’s a ‘requirement for every successful entrepreneur’

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December 14, 2025
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne's signatures on the bottom of Apple's founding contract.
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Apple cofounder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976—today it’d be worth up to $400 billion

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December 12, 2025
Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs
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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’

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December 11, 2025
Zhenghua Yang
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At 18, doctors gave him three hours to live. He played video games from his hospital bed—and now, he’s built a $10 million-a-year video game studio

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December 10, 2025
Reed Hastings
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Netflix cofounder started his career selling vacuums door-to-door before college—now, his $440 billion streaming giant is buying Warner Bros. and HBO

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December 5, 2025
Anthropic is all in on ‘AI safety’—and that’s helping the $183 billion startup win over big business
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Anthropic is all in on ‘AI safety’—and that’s helping the $183 billion startup win over big business

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December 2, 2025
Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield
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Slack cofounder says workers and CEOs can get stuck doing ‘fake’ work like pre-meetings and slide shows

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November 25, 2025
How a jazz musician built a startup solving employee retention—with a platform that plays to every strength
Workplace Culture

How a jazz musician built a startup solving employee retention—with a platform that plays to every strength

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November 25, 2025
Marc Benioff
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29-year-old founder spammed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff 53 times—it worked and now he spends 30 minutes a week ‘hustling’ and shooting cold emails

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November 25, 2025
Brian Halligan, chief executive officer and co-founder of Hubspot Inc., speaks during the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.
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The Deadhead who became a $38 billion CEO: What HubSpot cofounder Brian Halligan learned from Jerry Garcia and passed on to his MIT students

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November 25, 2025
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As boomers are forced back to work because they can’t afford to retire, Robinhood CEO says Gen Zers are opening retirement accounts at just 19 years old

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November 24, 2025
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November 23, 2025
Google cofounder Larry Page
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Google cofounder Larry Page overtakes Jeff Bezos as the third richest person in the world following an Alphabet stock surge

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November 21, 2025
Turing cofounder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth
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The CEO of $2.2 billion AI company Turing can’t live without ChatGPT, swears by his Kindle, and has only taken 2 weeks of vacation in 7 years

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November 13, 2025
Alexis Ohanian ignored Paul Graham’s warning that Reddit’s ‘terrible’ name would be ‘poison’. Now it’s a $38 billion business 
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Alexis Ohanian ignored Paul Graham’s warning that Reddit’s ‘terrible’ name would be ‘poison’. Now it’s a $38 billion business 

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November 11, 2025

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