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Multimillionaire 'Sinners' director was $200,000 deep in student debt and 'making no money' around the filming of 'Creed'

“I was always 200 grand in debt for film school," the now-multimillionaire director behind "Creed" and "Black Panther" revealed. "It was bad.”

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Even Fortune 500 CEOs agree that traditional meetings are a waste of time. Here’s how Jamie Dimon, Jensen Huang and Brian Chesky are killing unproductive catch-ups

Fortune 500 CEOs share their strategies for meetings that are actually useful.

Fortune

Boost productivity with these 7 sleep hacks from the world's most successful people

Sleep is a productivity tool available to everyone. Here we uncover the sleep hacks of millionaires, world-leading thinkers and big-time CEOs.

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Multimillionaire musician Will.i.am invested early in Tesla, Twitter and OpenAI—now he’s betting on Gen Z grads for his next investment

Will.i.am has an estimated net worth of $50 million, thanks to hit singles and solid investments in the likes of Anthropic and Pinterest. He revealed to Fortune where he’s investing next.

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Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am reveals his biggest investment mistake: turning down Airbnb founder Brian Chesky and losing out on millions

Will.i.am was nearly an early investor in Airbnb. Had he not passed on CEO Brian Chesky's offer, the rapper would have made millions.

Fortune

AI's big selling point of boosting worker productivity is so far a phantom

It looks like a return to Solow's Paradox as CEO views of AI's advantage diverge.

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Airbnb’s 43-year-old CEO rejects fellow tech titans’ lack of sleep

Brian Chesky has a hack for managing the hectic day-to-day of a $100 billion Fortune 500 brand.

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Founders keep saying they learned the same life lesson after extraordinary career success: 'I had isolated myself'

It’s lonely at the top—especially when it feels like your own fault.

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Sam Altman says Airbnb’s CEO and a ‘legendary’ VC saved OpenAI and ‘stopped me from making several mistakes’ after he was briefly fired in 2023

Immediately following his brief firing from OpenAI, Altman considered starting another AI company, something Chesky and Conway helped talk him out of.

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Why Airbnb’s CEO believes spotlighting top performers is good leadership

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky argues that employee favoritism when done through a fair and equitable process allows leaders to spotlight top performers and use them as role models for other workers.

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Why Airbnb's CEO believes one-on-one meetings are 'flawed'

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky finds the most productive meetings are smaller groups where everyone participates.

Fortune

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky doesn’t believe in giving employees full autonomy

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says founder mode is his preferred management style.

Fortune

Airbnb Stock Tumbles, Expedia Jumps As Both Travel Firms Post Mixed Q3 Results

Airbnb stock tumbled while Expedia jumped following dueling third quarter earnings reports from the travel stocks Thursday.

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Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King say their 48-year friendship fueled their career success

Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King became friends early in their media career. That friendship helped them reach new heights, they say.

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Sequoia’s Alfred Lin on the art and math of spotting outliers

Alfred Lin, who just celebrated his 14th year at Sequoia Capital, talks about the frameworks he uses to identify outlier startup founders.

Fortune

Why Paul Graham’s ‘founder mode’ became a rallying cry

Companies can be run in two ways, “founder mode” and “manager mode,” Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham wrote, citing a recent talk by Airbnb cofounder Brian Chesky as his inspiration.

Fortune

The merits and perils of 'founder mode'

Founders are debating the merits and perils of outsourcing key leadership tasks to more experienced managers.

Fortune

Startup guru Paul Graham delivers scathing rebuke of Silicon Valley's conventional wisdom about founders

"VCs who haven't been founders themselves don't know how founders should run companies, and C-level execs, as a class, include some of the most skillful liars in the world."

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Airbnb’s Brian Chesky had a major leadership gripe early on in his career: ‘There’s no appreciation for learning how to be a CEO’

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has spent the past 17 years disrupting the lodging and temporary rental space.

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Airbnb just listed a life-sized Polly Pocket house–and it doesn’t have a roof

While the two-story, 42-foot-tall structure is complete with a retro fridge, it’s missing a key amenity for “slumber party fun”: a bed.

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Is Wall Street Bullish or Bearish on Airbnb Stock?

Airbnb has underperformed many of its peers and the broader market over the past 52 weeks, but Wall Street analysts are optimistic about the stock's prospects.

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Your company is not your family. And you should be thankful it’s not

I’ve worked with family-owned businesses, and their internecine battles and succession struggles ain’t great

Fortune

Airbnb’s CEO pairs people up to combat workplace loneliness

"Giving people a shared journey to be on together I think is really important."

Fortune

Airbnb CEO reflects on fumbled messaging during layoffs: “You don’t fire members of your family”

CEO Brian Chesky reflects on his comments about feeling “love” for laid-off workers.

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The AI Chatbot Can Help You Book That Mediterranean Cruise

Online travel companies led by Booking Holdings and Expedia are embracing generative AI to help their customers.

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