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Key Takeaways Steven Bartlett, host of The Diary of a CEO podcast, projects $60 million in revenue this year from the podcast alone. Bartlett’s business earns money from ads, products, subscriptions and events. He prioritizes retaining his audience over taking lucrative advertising deals. In 2017, Steven Bartlett had no college degree and no guests — just a $100 microphone and a diary. At the time, he was CEO of a marketing agency, and he turned his own diary entries about entrepreneurship into podcast episodes. Those early solo episodes, recorded at 2 a.m. at the end of the week, were the start…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Differentiation matters more than trying to appeal to everyone. Successful businesses, like the strongest college applicants, stand out by excelling in a specific area rather than trying to do everything well. Build a narrative that runs through every aspect of your business. Communicate what makes you unique, and reinforce that message through your website, thought leadership and customer interactions. Demonstrate your value rather than simply claiming it. The goal isn’t merely to give someone a reason to say yes. Instead, it’s to make them afraid to say no. Every December,…

Last summer, I lived out my 10-year-old self’s wildest dream. While writing the new book, Hot Wheels: The Creative Drive, I got to roam Mattel’s design studio, which is part Willy Wonka factory, part museum, part Frankenstein’s lab. One of the many brilliant people I met there is Ted Wu, SVP of Hot Wheels and Global Head of Vehicles and Building Sets at Mattel. In 23 years at the company, Ted has produced TV shows, run marketing around the globe and led design. Now he oversees a business that produces hundreds of millions of vehicles a year, and Hot Wheels…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Personal AI agents are now acting on behalf of your customers. They can negotiate refunds, discounts and credits more persistently than humans, creating challenges for businesses. Ambiguous policies create significant risks. AI agents can exploit unclear terms and loopholes at scale, potentially overwhelming customer support systems and increasing costs. Businesses must prepare proactively. Companies should verify agent identities, monitor agent activity, audit policies for ambiguity and build safeguards rather than simply blocking AI agents. Right now, companies are interacting with customers who are not giving up, losing their patience after…

Published October 22, 2026 11:47AMKorin Pusillo spent part of her first elk hunt clawing up a mountainside in northwest Colorado on her hands and knees. It was October 14, and Pusillo, 39, was in Bears Ears, a remote area near Steamboat Springs. Rain had soaked the ground before turning to snow, leaving slick mud beneath the fresh accumulation. Every attempt to climb sent her sliding backward. “Everything changed so fast. It was hard to get our bearings, and I think even experienced hunters would have been surprised by how quickly the weather turned,” Pusillo told Outside. Pusillo was tracking elk…

Key Takeaways Gibson Tuttle’s brand began as a nail salon with its flagship location in Beverly Hills. The company rolled out its first product line in 2019 and partnered with Target. The brand just dropped its newest offering for at-home use: the Dip Mani System. “ I’ve been obsessed with nails since I was a kid,” Sarah Gibson Tuttle, founder and CEO of Olive & June, tells Entrepreneur. “My dad didn’t let me paint my nails, so I had a box of nail polish under my bed, and I would sneak manicures, especially red. That was his least favorite color.”  Image…

The new social series is taking outdoor wellness retreats to a new levelThe cast of Mammut’s Uwellness Retreat. (Photo: Mammut)Published October 22, 2026 10:42AMGrowth begins where comfort ends. That’s the mantra behind Mammut’s Unwellness Retreat. In the new social media series, participants are stepping off the traditional wellness pathways of comfort, relaxation and control and blazing a new trail in the age of optimization. High atop the snow-packed mountains of the Andes, we meet “unwellness guru” Spencer Harkins as he guides three wellness experts through a reinterpreted off-the-grid retreat. Those experts, Anabelle Lefevre, Mahinanani Alexander and Jonah Kest, take on…

Chris Stafford was 15 when a friend invited him to help scare people at his haunted house for Halloween. “I was bit by the bug,” Stafford tells People. Years later, while working in banking in Colorado, he reconnected with fellow haunted house alum Warren Conard. In 2002, the pair opened a haunted house in a Denver strip mall, funding it themselves and charging about $15 a ticket. “It was terrifying,” Stafford recalls. “People were running out the exit.” That business started as a side hustle, but the 2008 financial crisis convinced Stafford to eventually leave his job in banking and…

As a leader in outerwear innovation, Helly Hansen draws on a legacy of providing protection from the wet and cold (Photo: Helly Hansen)Published October 22, 2026 10:01AMTo say Helly Hansen has been developing and refining outerwear longer than almost any other company on the planet is no exaggeration. Since 1877, the storied Norwegian brand has pushed the frozen edge of apparel design, protecting us from the worst winters, beginning with the linseed-oil-soaked linen coveralls developed by the company’s namesake sea captain and his wife for hardworking fishermen toiling in the wettest, coldest Arctic conditions. That award-winning breakthrough would cement Helly…

Meta’s court woes continue. A New Mexico judge ordered the company to pay $25 billion on Wednesday for deceiving users about its data privacy practices, one of the largest penalties ever levied against a tech company, according to The New York Times. The judge said the “extraordinary number of willful violations” justified the steep penalty. New Mexico sued Meta in 2021 over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the British political consulting firm obtained data from tens of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge. Last month, a Santa Fe jury found Meta committed 43 million violations of the state’s…