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Job market dark reality: Man attends 55 interviews after applying for over 175 roles, gets no offers, says, 'Doesn't know what else to do...'- Laid-off employee attends 55 interviews in seven months but receives no job offers; Netizens explain why taking a 50% pay cut makes sense
- Success lesson from Jeff Bezos: He asked one question to himself before quitting daily job to build Amazon. What his 'regret minimisation framework' means?
- Man unemployed for a year gets a call from a company. Then an email leaves him devastated: ‘Feel cursed…’A jobseeker’s excitement over finally hearing back from a company turned into disappointment after discovering that the call was made by mi...07 Nov, 2026, 02.57 AM IST
- Meet Marcin Kleczynski, who was 14 when a computer virus led him to start a side hustle; how did he turn it into a multi-hundred-million-dollar company?Marcin Kleczynski was not initially an experienced professional programmer. He taught himself coding using online communities and programmi...07 Nov, 2026, 02.09 AM IST
- Pro Kannada outfit meets Bengaluru airport firms, presses for higher local hiringKannada Rakshana Vedike held discussions to address local hiring concerns with companies at Kempegowda International Airport. KRV president...06 Nov, 2026, 05.59 PM IST
- Rs 35 to Rs 111 crore: Udupi boy who washed utensils in Mumbai at 13, now owns 15 restaurantsFrom arriving in Mumbai with just Rs 35 at the age of 13 to building a restaurant business with Rs 111.45 crore in annual revenue, Narayan ...06 Nov, 2026, 01.15 PM IST
- UPSC Success Stories: He cracked AIIMS at 16, cleared UPSC at 22, and left IAS at 24 to build a nearly ₹2,000 crore startupAt just 16, Roman Saini achieved a remarkable feat by clearing the AIIMS entrance examination, and later, he conquered the UPSC Civil Servi...06 Nov, 2026, 11.56 AM IST
- His father chose $5 tooth extraction over a $50 root canal. Today, being a billionaire he still refuses to fix it. How childhood poverty affects adulthoodBillionaire lawyer John Morgan has refused to fix a missing tooth for decades, despite having two dentist brothers who have offered to repa...05 Nov, 2026, 10.26 PM IST
- Ramayana director Nitesh Tiwari is an IITian, worked as a techie for just 4 months. His first film won two National Awards, and he went on to direct highest-grossing film that earned over Rs 2,000 croreNitesh Tiwari, an IIT Bombay alumnus in Metallurgical and Materials Science engineering, opted for advertising and filmmaking instead of a ...05 Nov, 2026, 01.15 PM IST
- Mark Cuban shared rent with 5 roommates at 24, survived on canned food before becoming a billionaire; here's how he managed his expensesCuban recalled that his credit cards were taken away during that period and his food expenses were extremely limited. He even survived on c...04 Nov, 2026, 01.40 AM IST
- At 19, Udaipur teen builds Rs 1 crore chocolate brand. How his business sells 2 tonnes of chocolate made from fruits and spicesAt just 19, Digvijay Singh from Udaipur turned his chocolate-making passion into a successful brand named Saraam during the challenges of t...02 Nov, 2026, 03.45 PM IST
- Meet Jamie Siminoff, who spent his last $20,000 on a Shark Tank pitch but got rejected; how he went on to sell Ring to Amazon for $1 billion; know his career journeySiminoff appeared on reality show Shark Tank in 2013 to seek funding for Doorbot. He asked investors for $700,000 in exchange for a 10% sta...30 Oct, 2026, 07.19 PM IST
- Meet John Furner, who joined Walmart as a part-time garden-centre associate; now he leads the retail giant with 2.1 million employees; know his education and career journeyJohn Furner started as a part-time hourly associate at a Walmart Supercenter in Bentonville, Arkansas, the company's hometown. His first ro...29 Oct, 2026, 11.31 PM IST
- Meet Lukas Biewald, who lost his CEO role at his first startup; how an unpaid internship at OpenAI helped him build an AI company behind a karate studio that sold for $1.7 billionAfter reportedly leaving the CEO role, Lukas Biewald felt that he needed to strengthen his technical knowledge as deep learning advanced. H...29 Oct, 2026, 08.09 PM IST
- Meet Joe Demin and Rachel Connors, a couple who started selling hammocks in 2011; here's how their side hustle crossed $30 million in salesJoe Demin was travelling to Thailand in 2011 when they came across a soft, handwoven hammock. It was different from the rough products they...28 Oct, 2026, 11.12 PM IST
- Meet Casey Ferrand McGee, former reporter who spent five hours a week on a side hustle that nearly matched her $60,000 salary; how she built a business after 14 years in TV newsCasey Ferrand McGee is the founder of CFM Media. It is a media coaching, public relations and communications consultancy based in New Orlea...27 Oct, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
- Meet Doug McMillon, who unloaded Walmart trucks as a teenager in 1984; 30 years later, he became CEO of the retail giantMcMillon graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He returned to Walmart in 1...26 Oct, 2026, 09.42 PM IST
- Meet Ryan Deiss, who started an online business with just $500 in 1999; how he built DigitalMarketer and grew his digital marketing empireRyan Deiss was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. He started building basic websites for clients who wer...26 Oct, 2026, 07.11 PM IST
- Meet Phil Knight, Nike co-founder who sold shoes from his car trunk in 1964, 61 years later, he and his wife pledged $2 billion to a cancer institutePhil Knight was a runner at the University of Oregon and later studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business. While studying there, he lo...26 Oct, 2026, 06.00 PM IST
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