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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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Success
He went from washing lab equipment for $10 an hour to leading a $30 billion healthcare company. His advice to Gen Z: Raise your hand
By Preston ForeNovember 7, 2026
Richard Branson
Success
Billionaires Ray Dalio and Richard Branson hate workplace gossip—but men who do it could face a steeper career penalty than women, study finds
By Preston ForeNovember 6, 2026
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Success
Abdul El-Sayed’s commencement speech in 2007 was so good it led Bill Clinton to tell him to go into politics at just 22 years old
By Preston ForeNovember 5, 2026
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Success
Rhode Island’s new Governor Helena Foulkes spent 25 years at CVS and lost her first election—she says failure and bad bosses made her a better leader
By Preston ForeNovember 4, 2026
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Success
Jeff Bezos used one simple question to decide whether to quit Wall Street and start Amazon: What will I regret when I’m 80?
By Preston ForeNovember 3, 2026
Senator Mark Warner gestures passionately in front of a "Broken Promises, Higher Costs" sign in a Senate hearing.
Success
From Wall Street heirs to telecoms tycoons, at least half of major U.S. Senate candidates are millionaires—and some are worth upwards of $200 million
By Preston ForeNovember 2, 2026
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Success
Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO could turn staff into millionaires—but the AI firm is asking candidates what they’d do if stock fell to zero
By Preston ForeNovember 1, 2026
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Success
Welcome to the school where Gen Z learns philanthropy as billionaire wealth explodes—with a 100% job placement rate
By Preston Fore and Sydney LakeOctober 31, 2026
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Success
Gen Z doesn’t think their degrees will land them work anymore, so they’re becoming their own bosses instead—and these college towns are thriving
By Preston ForeOctober 30, 2026
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Success
Mark Cuban says Gen Z should think more like Jeff Bezos and stop chasing the perfect job: ‘Just get a job’—even at McDonald’s or Dairy Queen
By Preston ForeOctober 29, 2026
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Success
Sam Altman shares his ‘chronic disappointment’ in MBA students—they’re stuck on what ‘was cool five years ago,’ instead of embracing AI possibilities
By Preston ForeOctober 28, 2026
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Success
As AI threatens entry-level jobs, Gen Z is souring on if another degree can help—U.S. business school applications have plunged 25%
By Preston ForeOctober 27, 2026
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Success
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has two Gen Z kids—and his AI warning for the entire generation is: ‘You can’t run away from it, and you can’t wish it away’
By Preston ForeOctober 26, 2026
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Success
Ex-PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi worked from midnight until 5 a.m. as a receptionist to pay for her Yale degree—and she says ‘respect went up’ because of it
By Preston ForeOctober 25, 2026
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Success
KFC’s president started washing dishes at 13 but dreamt of being the ‘female Richard Branson’—so she quit jobs that wouldn’t embrace her personality
By Preston ForeOctober 24, 2026
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