In right this moment’s version: the affect of BLS turmoil, Martha Stewart will get into skincare, and this yr’s Most Highly effective Individuals in Enterprise.
– Energy strikes. For the second yr in a row, Fortune has ranked the 100 Most Highly effective Individuals in Enterprise. This listing runs alongside our longstanding Most Highly effective Girls franchise—and as soon as once more reveals why it’s nonetheless necessary to cowl enterprise’s Most Highly effective Girls on their very own.
Of 105 folks on the Most Highly effective Individuals listing (there are some ties), 19 are ladies. They’re woven into the rating in the identical order they seem on our 2025 Most Highly effective Girls listing, printed in Could. The highest girl on the MPW listing, GM chief Mary Barra, is available in at No. 10 on the Most Highly effective Individuals listing. She’s preceded by right this moment’s enterprise titans—Jamie Dimon, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, and, at No. 1 this yr, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.
Whereas Silicon Valley founders like Zuckerberg and Altman seem excessive on the rating, the highest ladies in enterprise are largely profession executives. (After Barra, there’s Accenture’s Julie Candy, Citi’s Jane Fraser, and AMD’s Lisa Su.) The one feminine founder who makes the MPP listing is Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei, who seems alongside her brother and co-founder Dario Amodei.
The feminine founders like Mira Murati, Fei-Fei Li, and Canva’s Melanie Perkins who’ve turn out to be mainstays on the MPW listing are poised to construct generational corporations like OpenAI and Meta—however are nonetheless on the way in which there. A couple of years from now, maybe they’ll dominate the highest of the rating, too.
Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com
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ALSO IN THE HEADLINES
– Facet impact. The turmoil on the Bureau of Labor Statistics may threaten the flexibility to shut the gender pay hole within the U.S., consultants from Equal Rights Advocates level out. With out dependable information assortment, it is tough to deal with the problem.
– Cash strikes. After my colleagues broke the information earlier this yr of the Gates Basis’s plans to spend $200 billion after which shut its doorways, we’re studying extra about how that cash will probably be spent. The muse is committing $2.5 billion by means of 2030 to ladies’s well being. That features every part from efforts to lower maternal mortality globally to creating new vaccines for infections that disproportionately have an effect on ladies. Plus, the muse’s Dr. Anita Zaidi wrote an op-ed concerning the transfer for Fortune. STAT Information
– Martha’s newest. Martha Stewart has launched many, many manufacturers over her profession. For the primary time, at 84, the U.S.’s first feminine self-made billionaire now has a skincare model. Elm Biosciences will launch in September. Wall Avenue Journal
– Endless. Properly, Trump has waded into the Sydney Sweeney discourse. After the actress’s advert for American Eagle was criticized for a eugenics vibe with a play on “denims/genes” the president stated she has “the HOTTEST advert on the market.” He additionally took the chance for a dig at Taylor Swift (who endorsed Kamala Harris within the 2024 election). “She was booed out of the Tremendous Bowl and have become, NO LONGER HOT,” he wrote on Fact Social. Politico
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
Wondery CEO Jen Sargent will go away the Amazon-owned podcast studio as the corporate reorganizes its audio enterprise.
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Chappell Roan on The Subway, writing by means of heartbreak, and loving her job once more Vogue
Nancy Mace launches marketing campaign for South Carolina governor CBS Information
PARTING WORDS
“I really feel like I perceive myself extra each single day.”
— Actress Margaret Qualley, on the quilt of Cosmopolitan
