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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.

Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang says ‘a lot’ of six-figure jobs in plumbing and construction will soon be unlocked because someone needs to build new AI centers

By Preston ForeAugust 1, 2026

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Jensen Huang says this is the greatest time in history to start a business—and his advice is to stop overthinking it: ‘How hard can it be?’

By Preston ForeJuly 31, 2026

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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

Eddie Smith Jr driving a boat

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

Worker in a full cleanroom suit uses a wafer manufacturing tool.

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

An F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14, makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln

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

Welder on a navy boat

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

Christopher Nolan wearing a black suit

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

Red Lobster CEO Damola Adamolekun on stage siting on a couch

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

Alex Karp gestures

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

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Jensen Huang says ‘a lot’ of six-figure jobs in plumbing and construction will soon be unlocked because someone needs to build new AI centers

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By Preston ForeAugust 1, 2026

Personal Finance

Millennials say they’ll refuse to care for aging boomer parents—but they’ll be forced to as their inheritance shrinks to 40 cents on the dollar

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By Nick LichtenbergJuly 31, 2026

The labor market could become so backward that the economy will have to shed jobs to keep unemployment steady

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By Jason MaAugust 1, 2026