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3 Ways Startup Founders Can Find Success In A Rapidly Changing World

Starting a business has always required a high level of comfort with uncertainty. But over the past year, uncertainty has stopped being background noise and become the operating environment itself. And yet many startups are not retreating. They are adapting. After speaking with dozens of entrepreneurs,and being a founder myself, I found a common pattern: the startups navigating uncertainty best are the ones building globally distributed, AI-enabled teams. Three key lessons stood out.

How AI Integration and Technology Adaptation Enhance Long-Term Asset Management

Barings Chairman, CEO, and President Mike Freno sat down with Forbes to discuss how the firm's ownership structure enables long-term capital deployment. Freno also discussed strategic consolidation, expanding global partnerships, and navigating private credit market opportunities.

Art Meets Engineering: A Cash Back Content Series

"We build things that don't exist in the world." Meet Dave Sheinkopf and James DeVito, the founders of Smooth Technology. In this video, they share how they turned a passion for innovation into a creative studio that designs tech for global concert tours, red carpets, and cutting-edge live events.

How This CEO Plans To Unlock $2 Trillion In Idle Philanthropy

ForbesWomen Editor Maggie McGrath sits with Tracy Palandjian, co-founder and CEO of Social Finance, as she explains how she is flipping traditional philanthropy on its head. After starting her venture at age 39 as a working mother of three, Palandjian has spent the last 15 years mobilizing over $500 million to drive economic mobility across America.

Jennifer Garner Is Doubling Down On Her $700M Food Empire

From Hollywood superstar to co-founding a public company, Jennifer Garner is redefining what it means to build a mission-driven empire after 50. Editor of ForbesWomen, Maggie McGrath sits with Garner as she opens up about the historic IPO of her organic food brand, Once Upon a Farm, and explains why she completely ignores the daily stock price to keep her eyes on the true prize: driving systemic change in childhood nutrition.

How This CEO Built A Billion-Dollar Tech Unicorn After 40

ForbesWomen Editor Maggie McGrath, sits with Ritu Narayan, the founder and CEO of Zum, who shares the incredible story of how she set out to solve a deeply personal parenting challenge and ended up modernizing the largest mass transit system in America.

How Tracee Ellis Ross Proved The Beauty Industry Wrong

From making her highly anticipated Broadway debut to building a global haircare empire, Tracee Ellis Ross is redefining what it means to step into your ultimate power after 50. ForbesWomen Editor, Maggie McGrath, sits with Ellis Ross as she shares a wonderfully candid look at her summer Broadway debut in Every Brilliant Thing, revealing how she transforms terror into pure excitement and why she embraces the vulnerability of a completely illuminated, participating audience.

Inside The ‘Terrifying’—And Lucrative—Underworld Of Reptile Trafficking

Snakes and other reptiles are some people’s biggest fears. For others, those creatures are their whole lives—and livelihoods. While reputable reptile trade does exist, the international wildlife trafficking industry is a multi-billion dollar business. The new docuseries, ‘Monsters of God’, explores the underworld of reptile trafficking—one filled with exotic creatures, smugglers, drugs, weapons, special agents, and zoo connections. Eric Goode and Jeremy McBride, executive producers of the series, join “Forbes True Crime” to discuss. 

Former FBI Agent Breaks Down Nancy Guthrie Ransom Notes—And What They Mean For Investigation

The search for Nancy Guthrie has officially passed the six-month mark, and the 84-year-old still hasn’t been found and no suspects have publicly been named. One day after Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told CBS that he had “nothing to indicate she’s dead," including any note, his department released the text of two ransom notes that were sent on February 2 and 6. The first addressed “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie directly, and demanded 4 to 6 million dollars in bitcoin for her mother’s safe release. The note threatened that Nancy would be killed if the money was not received by a February 9 deadline. The second note, which addressed the Guthrie family, said that whoever took her failed to “fully grasp the seriousness of her physical condition,” she died shortly after she was abducted, and she “is buried in nature now.” Retired FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner joined “Forbes True Crime” to discuss the notes and where the case stands a full six months after Nancy Guthrie went missing.

How A Once Homeless Veteran Built Two Multi-Billion-Dollar Companies

Forbes deputy editor Matt Durot sits down with John Paul DeJoria, the legendary co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems and Patrón Tequila. To celebrate his book, "Success Unshared is Failure," DeJoria shares his raw, unfiltered journey of resilience, mindset, and why he firmly believes that the American Dream is still alive and well for anyone willing to work for it.

How John Hope Bryant’s $1 Billion Fund Aims to Tackle the Housing Crisis

On this episode of The Enterprise Zone, CEO of Operation HOPE John Hope Bryant sat down with Forbes to discuss financial literacy, economic sentiment, and his $1 billion affordable housing impact fund launched alongside CIM Group. Bryant is the CEO of Bryant Group Ventures and discussed his inclusion on Forbes's 250 Greatest Living Self-Made Americans list, stakeholder capitalism models like profit-sharing, and updates his organization's 1 Million Black Businesses initiative with Shopify.

How To Build A Monthly AI Budget For Your Small Businesses

Companies are no longer using AI as an experiment, they are now at a point where they view AI spending as a serious financial risk. Uber burned through its entire 2026 budget for AI coding tools in four months, and the company’s chief operating officer said the costs are getting harder to justify. But enterprise budgets contain "cushion" that no small business has. If the AI costs for small businesses were treated similarly to those for Uber's (a large company), they would create payroll pressures for a 12-employee firm. Forbes contributor TerDawn DeBoe explains how small businesses can future-proof their AI spending.

$250 Million Superyacht Tour: Inside This Billionaire's Floating Palace

For 27-year-old Dubai mogul Abbas Sajwani, his 348-foot pleasure vessel isn’t just a floating trophy—complete with a gold elevator—it’s a palatial office from which he runs his empire.

Inside Mark Tatum’s Playbook For Steering the NBA’s $180 Billion Empire

On this episode of The Enterprise Zone, NBA COO and Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum sat down with Forbes to discuss the global expansion and commercial growth of the NBA. Tatum also discussed franchise valuations, new media rights agreements, potential expansion into Las Vegas and Seattle, and the launch of a new European league set for 2027.

Ryan Sprowls | Forbes/SHOOK Top Advisor