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Lululemon’s outspoken founder is used to making headlines with his interviews.Dennis “Chip” Wilson founded the athleisure brand in 1998 and left the company in 2013 after a series of controversial remarks. Since his departure, the 70-year-old billionaire has continued to express his opinions about the brand.With an 8% stake in the…

Tiffany Chng and Olivia Yiong said they went from being work besties to regular besties and then work besties again.The duo, both 31, met in 2018 and became inseparable while working at GuavaPass, a fitness app. Yiong was laid off when Guavapass was acquired by ClassPass in 2019.Two years later,…

When the cameras start rolling at the Critical Role studio in Los Angeles, Ed Lopez and Ben Van Der Fluit are never in front of them.There are eight far more famous faces that front the operation. Critical Role’s cofounders, a team of self-professed nerdy voice actors, have been streaming their…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kiana Mei, 20, a small-business owner from Australia. It has been edited for length and clarity.When I turned 15, like all my friends, I wanted to get a job at a café to earn money. But my father pushed me to…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Michael Stausholm, founder and CEO of SproutWorld. It has been edited for length and clarity.Back in 2013, I saw a Kickstarter campaign for a plantable pencil. Three young students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had invented the pencil in…

Bobbi Brown built a billion-dollar beauty brand only to find herself feeling pushed out of it in 2016.Though she is one of the beauty industry’s most influential founders, she coped after exiting Estée Lauder in the same way many would after leaving a job.”My neighbors came over and I drank…