Leena Rao

Fortune

Subfreezing temperatures didn’t stop Ruth Porat from setting out for her beloved spinning class. But black ice kept her from getting there. Early one Sunday in January 2015...

Fortune

Major League baseball uses Amazon’s cloud to send real-time updates of player statistics to fans in all 30 of its stadiums. Regulator FINRA uses it to store and analyze more than 30 billion stock market transactions a day. Netflix (NFLX) relies on it to stream billions of hours of video every month to 50 million customers in 60 countries.

Marie Claire

"Unicorns"—companies valued at more than $1 billion—do exist, and their female CEOs are sharing how they built their empires.

Marie Claire

COVID-19 forced about two thirds of Americans to hastily pack up their offices and head to homemade workstations. Many will never go back. These six women are making WFH the new reality.

SEEN

For their July 6 wedding, Stephanie Bloom and Spencer Lucker combined two of their passions: appreciation for Jewish traditions, and excitement about Detroit’s resurgence.

SEEN

Yelitsa Jean-Charles, the founder of Healthy Roots Dolls, is helping children embrace their hair — and redefining society’s beauty standards along the way

Veronica Beard

Brynn Putnam has the golden touch. She’s been able to do something that countless other entrepreneurs dream of (twice!): channel her passions around fitness and health into two successful and coveted businesses, Refine Method and The Mirror.

Fortune

Fortune senior writer Leena Rao, who moderated yesterday's Apple Store event with the sisters, breaks down each app's perks and features.

Elle

Three years ago, I moved from San Francisco to suburban Michigan and lived to tell the tale.

Veronica Beard

While the country is slowly reopening with the vaccine here, the long-term economic impact of COVID-19 remains uncertain and, for millions of families, anxiety about personal finance is taking its toll.

Veronica Beard

Reshma Saujani doesn’t believe in perfection. She believes we need to teach ourselves and the next generation of women how to be brave, take risks, and embrace fear—all of which she details in her New York Times bestseller, Brave Not Perfect.

SEEN

Decades after meeting on the school bus, Michael Bak and Felix Ferrer say ‘I do’ with a vintage-meets-modern farm party.

Veronica Beard

In 2008, as the economy collapsed, Alexa Von Tobel took a leave of absence from Harvard Business School to start LearnVest, an online financial planning startup. Her goal was to empower women financially, especially during unstable financial times.

TIME

At age 18, Kirsten Green sold women’s clothes at the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek, Calif. Twenty years later, the retailer backed her fund, Forerunner Ventures.

Fortune

“It was like revenge of the nerds,” Carter, 43, told his wife, Rebecca, after leaving a 2010 barbecue at the Silicon Valley home of investor Joe Lonsdale. “The world was going into a very different place,” he recalls thinking. “And the power was shifting.”

TIME

Bozoma Saint John’s ascension into the realm of internet sensation began when she walked onstage at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference June, wearing in a bright-pink dress, to talk about the company’s new music services.

Veronica Beard

Fitness influencer Megan Roup is the self-proclaimed “queen of the side hustle.” That’s how she first began to teach her now hit dance cardio classes, The Sculpt Society.

Veronica Beard

For many, loving and appreciating others comes much easier than loving themselves. The Hoffman Institute, a nonprofit based in Napa Valley, wants to help you change that pattern with the Hoffman Process, an intense week-long retreat that's been compared to the equivalent of 10 years of therapy.

Marie Claire

We've been shut down for nearly a year: No IRL concerts, conferences, or big weddings (for, ahem, the responsible among us). Marie Claire spoke to female leaders in the event business to find out how they're fairing.

Fortune

“Sniff, swirl, then swish.” An Italian-born sommelier guides a crowd of tasters through generous pours of velvety Robert Mondavi reds. Some of the well-dressed guests listen intently. Others clutch their glasses as they wander among lush gardens or settle at upright wine-barrel tables to nibble on cheese and charcuterie.

TIME

The first time Ruzwana Bashir wore Western clothes was when she started as a student at Oxford University. Until then Bashir, who grew up in a tight-knit Pakistani community in northern England, wore a long shalwar kameez and a traditional Muslim head scarf every day.

Veronica Beard

Here's a stat every new mother should know: By the age of two, studies show that 80% of the adult brain is formed, making this period in a child's life a crucial one when it comes to healthy eating.

SEEN

Meet the women behind Cap & Conquer, a nonprofit founded by cancer survivors and their loved ones that’s dedicated to helping women preserve their hair — and identities — during chemo treatments

Veronica Beard

True or false: One of Stanford Business School’s most popular classes isn’t about business. True. It’s actually about comedy.