Sarah Jackson

Jan 5, 2025 | businessandamerica.com | Katie Balevic |Sarah Jackson |Avery Hartmans |Hillary Hoffower |Taylor Nicole Rogers

Dec 18, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Dominick Reuter |Sarah Jackson

Staff at major companies have asked their leaders if there are plans to follow Amazon’s full return to office. Firms like Meta, Google, and Microsoft have a hybrid setup — however, execs say they’re eyeing productivity. Research findings on the subject are varied, and the debate will likely continue in 2025.

Dec 7, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Tami Brehse |Kylie Kirschner |Jaures Yip |Sarah Jackson

A group of early 2000s PayPal employees and founders came to be known as the “PayPal Mafia.”The members have all gone on to impact Silicon Valley by founding and developing major companies. The group includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and the founders of both YouTube and Yelp. What do the founders of YouTube, Yelp, Tesla, and LinkedIn have in common? Apart from creating some of the biggest companies in tech, they all share a common résumé line item: they’ve all worked at PayPal.

Dec 1, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Sarah Jackson |Sindhu Sundar |Lakshmi Varanasi |Samantha DeLouya

Bill Gates, the Microsoft cofounder, shares three kids with his ex-wife Melinda French Gates. They include a recent med school graduate and a fashion startup cofounder. Here’s what we know about the children of one of the world’s richest men. Bill Gates’ story is a quintessential example of the American entrepreneurial dream: A brilliant math whiz, Gates was 19 when he dropped out of Harvard and cofounded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen in 1975.

Nov 29, 2024 | businessandamerica.com | Sarah Jackson

Jensen Huang is becoming more of a household name as Nvidia’s value skyrockets amid the AI boom. The CEO has some unusual management practices, including having 60 direct reports and no 1-on-1s. Here are some of Huang’s most notable tips when it comes to business leadership and management. Nvidia overtook Apple and Microsoft separately earlier this month to briefly become the world’s most valuable company.