Alyson Shontell
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@ajs
Editor-in-Chief and CCO, @Fortunemagazine. Former EIC @businessinsider. @NewhouseSU Advisory Board. Proudly married to @lombosco!
Some personal news … I am excited to announce that today is the official launch of the Fortune 500 Digest daily edition - an email that gives you everything you need to know before you get to the office. We have been silent-running a test version of this email since March ...
In the Trump Administration, we believe every American child should have a stake in their country's future. One way we’re making that happen is through Trump Accounts, which give $1,000 to every American child born between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2028. Trump Accounts make it easy for parents to set their children up for success — with a simple app and a policy designed to benefit hardworking American families. Thank you, President Trump and our great Treasury Secretary @SecScottBessent!
How @davidsenra built @FoundersPodcast, the show powerful CEOs can’t stop listening to fortune.com/2026/07/05/how…
Great @Fortune piece on @davidsenra today. Years ago, David kept texting me and @karimatiyeh to back a podcast with fewer than 1,000 listeners. "Trust me on this one." We did. That podcast became @tbpn. It sold to OpenAI this April and along the way did more for @tryramp's profile than any ad money could buy. What the piece gets right about David and mostly leaves between the lines: he's read 415 biographies of the people who got it right and he turned that discipline into a place the rest of us go to study. @FoundersPodcast isn't a podcast so much as a school for builders. It's why the founders I asked didn't describe it, they revered it. When you've studied the greats that obsessively, you can tell the sublime from the merely great — and you'll bet everything on the difference before the rest of us can see it at all. David earned that audience one obsessed listener at a time. Summarizing a book a week, alone in a room, scraping by for years before anyone was listening. The fame didn't change him. Neither did the money: he turned down $50M+ buyout offers to keep Founders his, and he takes no equity in the bets he sends others. For David, great work itself is always the point. The lesson I keep relearning from him: when you find talent like that, don't hedge. Back them completely. The returns aren't linear. Nothing better than watching a friend succeed. Grateful to be in business with him too — Founders Podcast, the new show, whatever comes next.
Leveraged stock bets are ‘very concentrated in the AI ecosystem,’ Goldman Sachs warns fortune.com/2026/07/01/lev…
NEW: You may not know Jacob Andreou, but Satya Nadella has handed the 33-year-old the keys to Microsoft’s AI future. This is my deep dive into his rapid rise to head Copilot and the high-stakes bet to retake the AI lead from competitors.
