
– All about audio. On this year’s Fortune 500, there were nine new companies led by women. As discussed in yesterday’s newsletter, most of those companies joined the ranks of women-led Fortune 500 businesses after promoting women from within to the top job—with one exception (sort of).
SiriusXM is part of the Fortune 500 for the first time after spinning off from Liberty Media in September 2024. That adds SiriusXM CEO Jennifer Witz to the cohort of Fortune 500 chiefs; like her fellow female CEOs, she was promoted to the job in 2021 after two decades at the company (starting when it was still just Sirius).