Today marks the 29th anniversary of Amazon's IPO.
In 2012, Fortune named Jeff Bezos Businessperson of the Year. In the profile, Adam Lashinsky described Bezos as "the ultimate disrupter," constantly pushing Amazon into more and more industries. Bezos's efforts paid off: three months ago, Amazon claimed the #1 spot on the #Fortune500, ending Walmart’s 13-year run.
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"As you move higher up in the ranks at a company, of course, no one is actually asking if you have a four-year degree. They start looking at your experience. They start looking at whether you’re a lifelong learner, you know—problem solving, and so many other types of skills they’re looking for—and your results."
At the 2025 #FortuneWorkplaceSummit, IBM Chief Impact Officer Justina Nixon-Saintil said half of their open job roles don’t require four-year degrees.
Leaders will convene in Atlanta next week for the 2026 Workplace Innovation Summit, a high-energy event exploring how AI, humanity, and strategy converge to shape the future of work.
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Today is Mark Zuckerberg's 42nd birthday.
Zuckerberg's story is now-famous: dropping out of Harvard to cofound Facebook (now Meta) and building the social media website to one of the world's biggest tech companies, placing #22 on the 2025 #Fortune500 list.
Find out where Meta lands on the 2026 Fortune 500 list, publishing June 3.
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The first-ever #Fortune500 list was released in July of 1955.
Since then, we've released a ranking of the 500 largest U.S. companies by revenue ever year.
Take a look at some of our favorite covers over the years—and keep an eye out for the 2026 Fortune 500 list, dropping June 3rd.
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"With each investment, we start with a blank slate and ask, ‘What does the CEO need to do to be successful?’"
At the 2025 #FortuneCOOSummit, Blackstone Senior Managing Director Courtney della Cava described the intensive process of hiring the best CEOs.
Della Cava is an influential figure at Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager with $1 trillion in assets under management. During her tenure, she has transformed talent evaluation from an art based on intuition into a precise science.
"We need folks who are resilient. We need folks who can cognitively keep up," she said onstage.
The third-annual #FortuneCOOSummit returns June 1-2 in Scottsdale, bringing operations leaders together to reimagine how businesses run.
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One of the biggest successes in credit card history was cemented over a giant steak when American Express CEO Stephen Squeri met with Delta CEO Ed Bastian.
The conversation topic? How to “stop fighting over slices and grow the pie together,” recalls Bastian.
By 2019, Squeri and Bastian achieved such comfort that they extended their partnership to the end of 2029, and clicked so well that they are now buddies in pursuing both profit and fun.
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According to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, the biggest risk to professionals isn’t AI itself—it’s refusing to evolve alongside it.
“The two types of people who will not make the shift to AI are pure people managers, and people that [sic] are rigid and don’t want to change and evolve,” Chesky said recently on the Invest Like The Best podcast.
Chesky explained that as AI transforms company structures and how staffers do their jobs, bosses need to adapt to the new era, adopting a more technical approach rather than focusing solely on team leadership.
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@KKR is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its founding this month.
Take a look back at Fortune's July 1988 profile of the company, "Masters of the Buyout Game", which delves into the conglomerate's operations and the control cofounders Henry Kravis and George Roberts exert over everything from its holdings to a possible acquisition of Texaco.
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All the world’s a stage. Now that’s even true of the usually dull quarterly earnings call.
Increasingly, the day a company reports its earnings is also the day its CEO drops a selfie‑style video or LinkedIn essay translating the results for employees and customers.
But in February, Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff took it a step further, turning his routine fourth-quarter earnings call into an influencer-style production. Afterward, Salesforce’s social media team sliced the show into a short clip, extending a dry, hour-long phone call into snackable content.
As CEOs search for ways to control their own narrative in an era of always-on social media and pressure from artificial intelligence, the once‑stodgy earnings call is morphing into a new kind of corporate performance designed to be watched, clipped, and shared.
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“The merger of marketing and tech has never been greater."
Home improvement rarely starts with casual online browsing, Home Depot CMO Molly Battin tells Fortune. More often, it begins with a broken faucet, a paint job already underway, or a project that has suddenly become urgent.
As CMO, Battin oversees far more than advertising. Product sits within her organization as a shared function across marketing and technology, giving her influence over the digital tools customers use to search for products, plan projects, and shop through the app.
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Gone are the days when employee threats of resignations and a petition signed by thousands were enough to sway Google's position.
Google has agreed to allow its Gemini AI models to be used inside the U.S. military’s classified networks for “any lawful purpose", and employees tell Fortune the leverage that once allowed technology workers to influence significant sway over the company’s policies has eroded.
Though close to 600 employees signed an open letter opposing the deal, Google seems to be doubling down on its controversial deal with the Pentagon, telling staff in a memo that it “proudly” works with the U.S. military and plans to continue to do so.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been pushing back against the popular narrative that AI will wipe out huge swaths of the workforce.
But he also placed some blame on overly confident CEOs who assume they know everything.
“If we convinced all the young college graduates to not be software engineers, and it turns out the United States needs more software engineers than ever, that’s hurtful,” Huang said in a recent interview with the Special Competitive Studies Project. “So we have to be mindful of how we communicate the importance of this technology and what it’s able to do.”
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