CEO Stories

In January 2010, Japan Airlines (JAL) filed for bankruptcy protection under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law with the largest debt of any company since the end of...

John Cronin was born with Down Syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes learning disabilities and developmental delays. But that has not stopped him from gaining major...

Eric Yuan got into collaboration technology for personal reasons. When he was dating his now-wife in his native China, he would take 10-hour train rides from...

Back in 1983, John Sculley was the president of Pepsi. He was a very highly paid executive sitting atop of one of PepsiCo’s most important divisions, and the...

ounder of Thoughtful Human, Ali O’Grady started a greeting card line that puts meaningful prose and illustrations into cards, but most importantly, into the hands and...

As a designer, Miriam Brafman initially considered starting a design business, or perhaps an e-commerce site. But when she looked for a vendor who could provide...

In 1992, Scott Forstall had just gotten his graduate degree, and lined up interviews with two big tech companies: Microsoft, where he had previously been an...

Melanie Perkins, then 22 and a university drop-out had flown all the way from her home in Perth, Australia, to Palo Alto, California, for the meeting...

Before she became the billionaire founder of shapewear company Spanx, Sara Blakely failed a lot. – She didn’t make it as a standup comedian. She couldn’t become a lawyer...

A misfit who grew up hating school, Sophia Amoruso left home at 17, intent on a life of anarchy and getting by for free. She says...