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Preston Fore

Preston Fore is a reporter at Fortune covering success, with a focus on education, personal finance, and entrepreneurship. Since joining the company in 2023, he has written extensively on career trends, Gen Z in the workforce, and the evolving higher education landscape. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Preston graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in global studies and journalism.

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A tech podcast inspired AI workers to donate $40 million to improve the lives of chickens, pigs, and other factory-farmed animals

By Preston ForeJuly 30, 2026

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He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead

By Preston ForeJuly 29, 2026

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In South Korea, teenagers are skipping college for semiconductor school—they’re landing six-figure Samsung jobs at 17 and bonuses of up to $400,000

By Preston ForeJuly 28, 2026

Andy Jassy

As millions of Gen Zers face unemployment, CEOs of Amazon, Citi, and McDonald’s say opportunity is still there—if you have the right mindset

By Preston ForeJuly 25, 2026

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Defense tech investors thought the war in Iran could make them millionaires. Instead, they faced a Wall Street bloodbath

By Preston ForeJuly 25, 2026

Sanae Takaichi

Despite Tokyo’s push for a 4-day week for better work-life balance, Japan’s prime minister boasts sleeping just ‘zero to three’ hours a night

By Preston ForeJuly 23, 2026

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Blackstone president Jon Gray tells Gen Z to think like founders at work—but a growing number are skipping the corporate ladder to become one for real

By Preston ForeJuly 22, 2026

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Jamie Dimon says six-figure shipyard jobs are the new ‘American Dream’—but candidates will need to endure hours of extreme heat, cold, and rain

By Preston ForeJuly 21, 2026

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Christopher Nolan was rejected from film school as a teen. Today, the Oscar-winning director behind ‘The Odyssey’ is worth $250 million

By Preston ForeJuly 20, 2026

Andrew McAfee

MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

By Preston ForeJuly 19, 2026

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Red Lobster’s 37-year-old CEO waited tables before joining the C-suite—he says it was a crash course in managing ‘difficult people and situations’

By Preston ForeJuly 19, 2026

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With a $15 billion net worth, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but that middle-class workers will get just modest raises

By Preston ForeJuly 17, 2026

Jamie Dimon surrounded by construction workers.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 300,000 workers are needed to rebuild American shipbuilding—with jobs paying $100,000 without a college degree

By Preston ForeJuly 16, 2026

Jon Gray

Blackstone’s president tells Gen Z that just being nice could land them a promotion because ‘people want you to win if you treat them in a good way’

By Preston ForeJuly 15, 2026

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars could come sooner than fixing the ‘broken’ workplace, CEO says—as worker disengagement costs $10 trillion a year

By Preston ForeJuly 14, 2026

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Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax was designed to hit the wealthy, but it’s sending most New Yorkers to their estate lawyers

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