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The alleged Deel spy just admitted to passing along company secrets in a major scandal rocking the HR world

“I asked him what he meant. He said he would offer me a monetary award if I agreed to spy on Rippling for Deel.”

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

The world’s billionaires now hold more wealth than every country in the world except the U.S. and China—and they'd be even richer if it wasn't for tanking stocks

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg still dominate the billionaire ranks, but their fortunes have taken a hit as S&P 500 losses and boycotts chip away at their wealth.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

LinkedIn's cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you're 'not committed to winning’

Reid Hoffman, the visionary behind LinkedIn, is not a believer in work-life balance for serious startup entrepreneurs. With the exception of one nightly ritual, he even expected employees to constantly be working.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

Premier's 100 Top Hospitals 2025: Community Hospitals

Fortune partnered with Premier, Inc. on the 2025 ranking of the 100 Top Hospitals in the U.S.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

Tesla Braces For Impact

Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn't much for vacations. But he has spent whatever off-time he must have campaigning for the Republican Party in a hotly contested state Supreme Court election, including by pouring millions of his own dollars into the race.

InsideEVs · Apr 2, 2025

DOGE’s claimed contract savings of $24.8 billion are ‘overstated,’ BoA says

The cost-cutting team claims to have saved around $24.8 billion in contract cancellations and renegotiations as of March 30, up from $21.6 billion last week.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

Norway’s government is being pushed to rethink ‘illogical’ ethical ban on its $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund investing in defense

“We are currently facing the most serious security crisis since World War II," Tina Bru of Norway’s Conservation party told Fortune.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

Why a16z's 'speedrun' accelerator is playing a new game

A16z’s gaming accelerator this week opened applications for its 5th LA cohort, bumping up investment per company to $1 million from $750,000.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

Hundreds of federal buildings, some of them historic, are on the auction block as part of DOGE’s effort to privatize everything possible

DOGE staff are pushing the private-equity playbook of selling government buildings just to pay to lease them back.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025

Analysts at Trump ally Howard Lutnick’s former firm call RFK Jr. ‘an anti-vax, conspiracy theorist with inadequate training’

RFK Jr. was reportedly behind the ouster of FDA’s top vaccine official and said last week that around 10,000 employees will be laid off at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Fortune · Apr 2, 2025