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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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Future of Work
Fortune 500 Chief People Officers say AI has killed org charts, and employees who will thrive need to ‘unlearn’
By Preston ForeOctober 1, 2026
Ynon Kreiz speaking
Success
Paramount’s new co-CEO once hired a barista he met at a café with no résumé. His advice to Gen Z: ‘Look up and make eye contact’
By Preston ForeOctober 1, 2026
Linda Hubbard
Success
Carhartt CEO warns schools are steering Gen Z students away from a lucrative career path: Skilled trades can pay 32% more
By Preston ForeSeptember 30, 2026
Construction workers build out the rooftop chillers and water lines feeding them atop Dallas TX4, which is under construction at the NTT Data center campus in Garland, Texas
Success
Google data center lead says ‘hundreds of thousands’ of skilled trade jobs are open across the U.S.—and they’re ‘just waiting to be filled’
By Preston ForeSeptember 29, 2026
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Success
He was Disney’s most junior employee when he rewrote the CEO’s op-ed. Now he’s a CEO, with advice for Gen Z: ‘Don’t really ask for permission’ 
By Preston ForeSeptember 29, 2026
Elon Musk in the Oval Office
Success
Elon Musk says money might ‘not even matter’ in the future—but tells Gen Z to study arts, sciences, and engineering to know what to ask AI and robots
By Preston ForeSeptember 28, 2026
Ethan Thornton views production of the Glide, a high-altitude glider.
Newsletters
How a Gen Zer built a $3.7 billion defense tech startup backed by Sequoia
By Preston ForeSeptember 28, 2026
Jane Fraser
Success
Citi CEO Jane Fraser swears by Warren Buffett’s golden rule for dealing with conflict at work: ‘Never, ever respond to that email in anger’
By Preston ForeSeptember 26, 2026
Peter Thiel
Success
Peter Thiel says Germany has a ‘fear of success’ problem—and it explains why entrepreneurs don’t scale like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg
By Preston ForeSeptember 25, 2026
Ali Ghodsi
Success
Like Jamie Dimon, Databricks CEO hates days with too many meetings. He says it means he gets nothing done and he’s just got ‘monkeys on his back’
By Preston ForeSeptember 24, 2026
Hisayuki Idekoba in Tokyo
Success
Indeed CEO says the job market is stuck in a ‘vicious cycle’ if 1,000 qualified candidates can’t get hired: ‘Something’s wrong’
By Preston ForeSeptember 21, 2026
Warren Buffett (left) with Bill Gates
Success
Philanthropy leader at Warren Buffett and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge says children of billionaires are pushing them to give their wealth away faster
By Preston ForeSeptember 20, 2026
Richard Brown headshot
Success
Meet a 71-year-old who retired as a radiologist and professor, and now runs a banana-skewer business: ‘I never want to retire. Why would you do that?’
By Preston ForeSeptember 20, 2026
Ann-Marie Campbell
Success
A Home Depot exec is going viral on X for her ‘perfect’ resume. She started out as a cashier and has worked her way up to a $1 million salary
By Preston ForeSeptember 18, 2026
Mary Barra
Success
GM CEO Mary Barra says America has a ‘societal problem’ with skilled trades—and is putting $200 million behind training Gen Z to work with their hands
By Preston ForeSeptember 17, 2026
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