This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Joshua Lee, a 45-year-old serial entrepreneur and venture partner in Brea, California, who started his career at EY (then called Ernst & Young).

As I started my Kellogg journey in 2023, I often repeated to myself and others: “One of the riskiest things you can do is start your own business. The least risky way to do it is to build while you’re ...

Building a successful business involves overcoming numerous challenges and moments of doubts. In this article, I share five valuable lessons I learned on my path to building and scaling my business.

Starting a business has been one of the most exciting and fulfilling chapters of my life — but it’s also been unpredictable, humbling and often much harder than it looks from the outside. Here are a ...

My first and only 9–5 job lasted six weeks in 2015. I had avoided traditional employment until then, building skills in social media, writing, web design, and small business management through ...

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David Bonderman, the founder of private equity firm TPG, and the founding owner of the Seattle Kraken, died on Dec. 11. Bonderman was my mentor, and his passing has led me to reflect on the key ...

2025 defied bearish forecasts, with markets recovering rapidly from panic-driven declines and rewarding investors who maintained conviction in fundamentals. Panic selling proved costly; maintaining ...

Over the last few months, my son, my wife, and I have visited universities across the country to help find the right one for him. And after a long and arduous search, he has finally chosen the one he ...

The fires have tested but also reinforced my belief that we create beauty from life’s challenges. Here are five lessons from the first five days of evacuation. I confessed to the strangers around me ...