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Robinhood was built for the last great retail investing boom: commission-free stock trades, fractional shares, options and crypto, all compressed into a clean mobile interface that made markets feel more accessible to everyday investors. Now it is positioning for the next one. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/geRkpNjZ 📸: Guerin Blask for Forbes

Makeup maven Estée Lauder revolutionized cosmetics with her eponymous company, founded in 1946. Today, the $14.3 billion (2025 sales) business is run by a hired-hand, though several Lauder family members still sit on the board. The Lauder family ranks among a record 54 multi-generational families worth at least $10 billion on our America’s Decabillionaire Families list. Read more about America’s richest families: https://lnkd.in/g-AiWqTH Illustration: Robert Bruno for Forbes #ForbesDecabillionaires

WATCH: Two people wearing masks scaled the Empire State Building on Wednesday and unfurled a banner on top of its spire. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gbYr9pNX

From retention to relevance. At Cannes Lions, Forbes sat down with Emmanuel Orssaud, CMO of Duolingo, to discuss why the brand stopped competing on outcomes and started owning what truly sets it apart: making learning fun.

A letter from the IRS said he owed six figures.⁣ ⁣ For VicBlends, it became one of the biggest business lessons of his career: save your money, check the details and make sure the right people are around you.⁣ ⁣ Watch the full conversation with the master barber and entrepreneur on The Under 30 Podcast: https://lnkd.in/g2kNaesM

Forbes P.M.: The Top 10 Richest People In The World - The numbers behind the 2026 World Cup - Trump reveals more than $100M in bitcoin investments

Soccer’s biggest spectacle is also one of the world’s biggest money machines. Behind the 2026 World Cup is a sprawling commercial engine: record-setting stars, sky-high ticket demand, billion-dollar revenue projections, renamed stadiums and new ways to turn even stoppages in play into major business. Explore the numbers behind the tournament: https://lnkd.in/gbuF_nJE 📸: Pat Elmont and Karl Bridgeman/FIFA via Getty Images; Tony Gutierrez via Associated Press

The Marriott family is one of America's richest families. John Willard "J.W." Marriott and his wife Alice got their start opening a nine-stool A&W root beer stand in Washington, D.C. with $6,000 in 1927. The family shifted to hotels in 1957, when they opened the world's largest motor hotel in Arlington, Virginia. Today, Marriott International operates nearly 9,800 properties in 145 countries and territories across the globe under 30-plus names, including Westin, Sheraton, Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis. See Forbes’ full ranking of the wealthiest families in the U.S. here: https://lnkd.in/g-AiWqTH Illustration: Robert Bruno for Forbes #ForbesDecabillionaires

At Cannes Lions, Forbes caught up with Laura Jones, CMO of Instacart, to discuss why the strongest brands go beyond convenience.

Forbes sat down with Vineet Mehra, CMO of Chime, at Cannes Lions to discuss why AI won't replace the most valuable asset in marketing: human taste.