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The Profile features the best long-form stories on people and companies in business, tech, sports, entertainment, and more.
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The Profile: The girlbosses of fertility & the sneaker company that won the cultural marathon26 Jun 2022 • 4 0Good morning, friends! My husband and I were recently discussing the power of sharing a meal with someone whose company you enjoy. Whether it’s friends, family, or total strangers, food can bring peop...
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The Profile Dossier: Katie Taylor, The Irish Fighter Dominating the Sport of Boxing22 Jun 2022 • 5 0As a kid, Katie Taylor wanted to be a boxer. She began training with her dad, but women’s boxing was banned in Ireland at the time. There were no sanctioned amateur fights in the late 1990s in the ent...
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The Profile: The Netflix CEO leading through a storm & the Musk of steamy romance19 Jun 2022 • 4 0Good morning, friends! Happy Father’s Day to all the dads, step-dads, uncles, grandfathers, and father figures who have made us into the people we are today. Today, I want to re-share the article I wr...
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The Profile Dossier: Joan Benoit Samuelson, the Marathoner Who Made Olympic History15 Jun 2022 • 5 0Joan Benoit Samuelson has been a running champion since the late 1970s. She won the Boston Marathon twice — once in 1979 and again in 1983. But it wasn’t until the inaugural women’s Olympic Marathon i...
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The Profile: Wall Street’s most controversial investor & America’s first Formula 1 superstar12 Jun 2022 • 4 0Good morning, friends! A great quote can stick in your mind and leave you reflecting on it for days. The following quotes have shaped my thinking, and I refer back to them often. (This is an excerpt. ...
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43 Life-Changing Quotes From the World’s Most Powerful People12 Jun 2022 • 10 0A great quote can stick in your mind and leave you reflecting on it for days. The following quotes have shaped my thinking, and I refer back to them often. They’ve all been featured in an edition of T...
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The Profile Dossier: Lynsey Addario, the War Photographer Capturing Our Collective Humanity08 Jun 2022 • 6 4Ukraine. Afghanistan. Iraq. Darfur. Libya. Syria. Lebanon. South Sudan. Somalia. Congo. Over the past 15 years, war photographer Lynsey Addario has covered every major conflict and humanitarian crisis...
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The Profile: The brothers who built a $95-billion unicorn & the bank tracking its employees’ productivity05 Jun 2022 • 1 0Good morning, friends! I’ve been thinking a lot about the significance of activism in the last few weeks. For many of the Twitter “activists” we see on a weekly basis, here’s how the hype cycle of tra...
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Why Activism Isn't Enough to Change the World04 Jun 2022 • 6 0I’ve been thinking a lot about the significance of activism in the last few weeks. For many of the Twitter “activists” we see on a weekly basis, here’s how the hype cycle of tragedy goes: They have an...
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The Profile Dossier: Bobbi Brown, the Beauty Mogul Preaching Self-Love01 Jun 2022 • 4 0Bobbi Brown is a beauty industry titan — and she built her empire on a simple premise: Makeup shouldn’t camouflage. It should enhance. “Beauty is something that comes from within,” she says. “It’s abo...
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