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Earlier this year, Oprah Winfrey nabbed the number one spot on the Forbes list of the country’s 250 Greatest Self-Made Americans — and this week, at a Forbes event in Philadelphia, Winfrey talked about why the keys to her success have been lessons learned from her challenging early years.
“I thought my life was over, and I had tried to actually harm myself, to do whatever I could because I had so much shame about it,” Winfrey said of being raped and sexually abused starting at age 9 and giving birth to a son at 14 who died soon after. But she also said that she would’ve been pulled out of school if she had had to raise her child, so she now looks at the tragedy as a second chance for her to go back to school, where she discovered her talent in debate and public speaking—which led to a radio job, a scholarship to Tennessee State University and eventually her national media brand.
Winfrey’s wide-ranging conversation with Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane can be watched in full here, but in the meantime, I want to leave you with her reflections on how poet Maya Angelou reframed how to think about a legacy: When Winfrey once told Angelou that her Leadership Academy would be her greatest legacy, Angelou countered that "you have no idea what your legacy will be" because legacy isn't tangible like a building or a dollar amount but, "every life you have touched.”
Cheers to that!
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Companies added IVF coverage when workers were scarce. Employers now have the upper hand, but the national focus on the declining birthrate could protect these benefits. Dr. Neel Shah, chief medical officer at women and family health platform Maven Clinic (a 12-year-old, VC-backed and female-founded unicorn), insists that his firm isn’t seeing any widespread retreat from fertility coverage. “As a general market trend, [Maven] is seeing employers double down on this benefit because it is always important to be able to recruit a reproductive-age workforce,’’ Shah says.
Sarah Guo, founder of Convictio,n speaks on stage during the Italian Tech Week 2025. (Photo by Nicolò Campo/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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In 2022, Under 30 alum Sarah Guo walked away from a high profile investing job at Reid Hoffman’s venture fund Greylock to start her own firm, Conviction. Her first check went to a then little-known legal AI startup called Harvey. Four years and an AI boom later, Harvey is now valued at roughly $11 billion. And it’s exactly the kind of conviction-driven bet that earned Guo the No. 56 spot on this year’s Forbes Midas List, which ranks the world’s top 100 venture capital investors.
In the newest episode of C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sat down with Shuo Wang, the billionaire cofounder and Chief Revenue Officer of Deel, a global payroll company, to break down the playbook behind one of the fastest-growing tech startups in history. Wang shares her remarkable journey—from moving to the U.S. at 16 and helping her mom’s small business to studying mechanical engineering and robotics at MIT and eventually cofounding Deel. Wang talked about how Deel rapidly hit $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue and revealed why Slack, of all things, is one of her most important tools.
Women are using AI, but the people who get ahead with it may be the ones who have the time, money, workplace access and confidence to keep experimenting—in other words, men. A gender split from Goodwater’s consumer AI survey, focused on working-age adults ages 18 to 60, showed men in this sample are more likely than women to use AI every day, pay for it, trust a wider range of tools and apply it to work, finance and coding.
This isn’t specifically a ForbesWomen story, but as it’s a question we’ve been curious about, we’re sharing it with you now: When will the juggernaut SpaceX stock start showing up in 401(k)s, and how could it affect our savings? According to this Forbes analysis, SpaceX will be eligible for the Nasdaq-100—a stock market index tracking 100 of the largest non-financial companies, like Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft—after 15 trading days, meaning it could be included as soon as early July. That would include SpaceX in funds that track the Nasdaq-100, such as the Invesco QQQ Trust, one of the world’s largest ETFs available in many IRAs and some 401(k) plans.
1. Don’t fall for corporate BS. New research out of Cornell has produced—we kid you not—a “Corporate BS Receptivity Scale” that explains which types of employees are more likely to fall for empty language and vacuous mission statements from the c-suite. Word of warning to those who trust authority figures: don’t let your trust get abused.
2. Own your credibility. Your employer might own your title, but as we know from Bureau of Labor Statistics data, median job tenure is just under four years—and it is slightly shorter for women. Meanwhile, AI-induced job cuts are proving that a resume from one of the top companies no longer insulates the person holding it. Protect your professional life by taking inventory of what you are genuinely known for, the thing you could talk about all day, the expertise that would still be true if the company vanished tomorrow.
3. Troubleshoot your stuck job search. Job candidates at all ages are having a challenging time in today’s job market. Here are five questions to ask to pinpoint why yours is feeling so difficult, starting with, “how much time are you spending on your search?”t questions you should ask yourself before making the jump.
Against a backdrop of falling sales in the U.S., Lululemon’s growth in the pivotal Chinese market could be in question after the athleisure giant made an error in their promotional yoga festival held on the Great Wall. What happened?
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