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What is power? Introducing the 2025 #Fortune100MostPowerful People in Business List. For the second time, Fortune ranked the leaders who are running the business world today and shaping what it will look like tomorrow. This list measures power and influence—and though net worth is a factor, we’re much more concerned with a leader’s ability to shape the thoughts and actions of those around them. What you will find here are the 100 people who are running the business world today—and shaping what it looks like tomorrow. Top leaders include: ➡️ Jensen Huang and CEO, NVIDIA ➡️ Satya Nadella, CEO and Chairman, Microsoft ➡️ Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Chairman, and Founder, Meta ➡️ Elon Musk, CEO and Cofounder, and other roles, Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, and others ➡️ Wang Chuanfu, CEO, Chairman, and Founder, BYD 🔗 See who made the full list here: https://lnkd.in/eyd5kDBD

The internet exploded when billionaire popstar Taylor Swift announced her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs football star Travis Kelce. Her Instagram post has racked up more than 29 million likes in less than 24 hours.⁠ ⁠ The athlete locked in their arrangement with a diamond ring estimated to be worth around $550,000—a small token to mark the billion-dollar empire they’ll be running.⁠ ⁠ Together, the celebrity pairing boasts a combined wealth of $1.67 billion. In comparison, the market cap of popular U.S. movie theatre chain AMC Entertainment only stands at $1.47 billion. Around 96% of that comes from Swift’s net worth alone, which is sky-high thanks to an incredibly successful 20-year run in entertainment. Meanwhile, most of Kelce’s fortune has come from his podcast contract earnings and 12 seasons in the NFL. ⁠ Read more here: https://lnkd.in/egiAP82s

President Donald Trump’s tariff instability is putting the economy on hold, and even Lamborghini’s deep-pocketed customers aren’t immune. CEO Stephan Winkelmann said some of its U.S. customers, who have at least $400,000 to shell out for a base model, are waiting to see where the Trump administration’s tariff rate for the EU ultimately settles. Its customers are waiting, even though the U.S. reached a deal to impose a 15% tariff on some EU products, including cars, in exchange for several pledges by the EU. This includes buying more AI chips and military equipment from the U.S. “Some are waiting because they want to be sure that this is the final number that is going to be in place,” Winkelmann told CNBC. “Others are fine with it, or we will have negotiations.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/eyQYxPzn

#FortuneMPW is excited to welcome Beth Ford, CEO of Land O'Lakes, Inc., to our conference, October 13–15, in Washington, DC. See the agenda and full list of speakers here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eew2F589

You never know when your big break will come knocking. For Julie Sweet, it came just a month before she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2014, during a regular one-to-one with her boss—then-CEO of Accenture, Pierre Nanterme. “At the end of the meeting, he closes his notebook and he pushes it aside, and he says to me, completely out of the blue… ‘I think you could run this place someday,’” Sweet recalled the pivotal moment in her career to Fortune’s Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast It was a surreal moment for Sweet, who was serving as general counsel at the time and did not fit the mold of a typical CEO: she had a legal background, not a traditional business one, she was a woman in a company historically led by men, and unlike previous leaders, she had not spent her entire career at Accenture. Even her boss admitted that jumping from general counsel to CEO was not a feasible jump, leveling that she would have to “run something else first.” Armed with that wisdom from Dina Dublon, the former CFO of JPMorgan Chase who served on Accenture’s board, Sweet did not flinch: “I looked at him and I said—with Dina in my head—’why, yes, I’d be interested. What did you have in mind?’” And it set her career in motion toward the top of the ladder, leading the tech consulting firm’s North American practice in 2015, and eventually being named global CEO in 2019. Read more: https://lnkd.in/ezpfejRu

New for Fortune Eye on AI today: I'm showing off my ultra-geeky side Everyone’s talking about yesterday’s Nvidia’s Q2 earnings. Not surprisingly, most of the focus was on the sophisticated, powerful GPU chips that made the company a $4 trillion symbol of the AI boom. I’ve been noodling on something CEO Jensen Huang mentioned during the earnings call with analysts and investors—something that ties directly to my obsession with those mega facilities built to house tens of thousands of GPUs, that consume staggering amounts of energy, and which are used to train the massive models behind generative AI. These are facilities like Meta’s planned, gas-fueled campus in northern Louisiana—which President Trump touted yesterday with a photo showing it will sprawl to the size of Manhattan—or OpenAI’s $100-billion-plus Stargate Project. On the call, Huang touted an Nvidia product called Spectrum-XGS—a hardware and software package that together let separate data centers function like one. Think of it as the pipes and traffic control that moves data between data centers quickly and predictably. Read the full newsletter here (and sign up, it's free!): https://lnkd.in/e8MC_f7S

It's been a big week of launches at Fortune! We just released the first episode of Fortune 500 Titans and Disruptors of Industry! Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell sat down with Accenture CEO Julie Sweet at their DC offices for an in-depth conversation on AI, the future of consulting, and how to lead a massive +700K workforce. Incredible work from Lydia Randall Amber Bragdon Sam Freund Zach Wood Nayon Cho! https://lnkd.in/gJ8hpzvt

“The best entrepreneurs, in my experience, try to figure things out for themselves.” Robinhood CEO and cofounder Vlad Tenev joined Fortune’s #LeadershipNext to reflect on his evolution as a leader—from weathering the GameStop firestorm to reshaping Robinhood into a full-spectrum financial services platform. Looking ahead, Tenev said the next 10 years will be the “best time to be an entrepreneur.” Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/efAcARG

What do Julie Sweet and Alyson Shontell have in common?  They meet on the inaugural vodcast of Fortune 500: Titans and Disruptors of Industry.  How do they do it, is a question that I and other execs want to know as we navigate relentless political, regulatory, climactic and technological disruption. In this episode, her message to Fortune 500 leaders is clear: reinvention is crucial to survival in the world of AI. In this new Vodcast series, we spend 60 minutes with the world's foremost business leaders to learn how they move the needle. Special thanks to: Adam Banicki Lydia Randall Alice Barlow-Lang Sam Freund Ashley Lutz Amber Bragdon! #AI #Fortune500 #Accenture Subscribe and watch the full conversation here: https://lnkd.in/eNWi5vTX

If you had an hour with the smartest leaders in business, what would you ask? Well, it's a VERY exciting day today, because that's exactly the purpose of my new vodcast which debuted this morning, Fortune 500 Titans and Disrupters of Industry. The first guest is one of the most powerful and plugged in executives in the world, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, who ranks No. 11 on the Fortune 100 Most Powerful People in Global Business list, runs a top 10 company in workforce size (over 770,000 employees!) and oversees a juggernaut: Accenture ranks No. 211 on Fortune's Global 500 of highest revenue generating companies in the world with ~ $65 billion. From Julie, I wanted to know a bunch of things: - What are the top trends on every CEO's mind right now (dozens of companies pay Accenture over $100 million in a single quarter for their counsel and solutions) - How are Fortune 500 CEOs navigating the AI future and why are so many AI projects failing? - How has she pulled off two massive global restructurings, communicated it across 120 countries, and gotten employees to buy into the new direction? -- How does she personally use AI, and how did she go from a partner at a law firm to running one of the world's largest companies? -- On a personal note, what has having cancer twice (once right as she was offered the biggest career opportunity of her life) taught her about her goals, priorities and leadership? All of that is in here and more. Thanks to Julie for her candor and her team for finding us this time together so all of you can learn from Sweet's unmatched expertise (and if you like it, subscribe! I'm aiming to publish these 1/month but it will be on a "bangers only" guest booking basis. And lots of bangers from our Most Powerful People list are in the hopper!) https://lnkd.in/euWfhi7g