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Here’s what I’ve noticed while collaborating with entrepreneurs at Y Combinator and working on several startups. Read More

It’s graduation season, and we here at Ladders have decided to take a look back and showcase some past commencement addresses that stand the test of time. Here is the full transcript of Condoleezza Rice’s commencement address to High Point University’s Class of 2016. Read More

What the startup, Gusto, actually does — helping businesses with human resource management tools — is less interesting than its unusual office policy … no-shoes allowed! … Read More

Apple may have made radical changes to the way the world communicates, but we can also learn something from Steve Jobs’ life before the company. Read More

Though being a working mom is extremely hard and often guilt inducing this gem of a study will bring you some good news and just in time for Mother’s Day, especially if you have a daughter. According to the study which looked at family and career data on more than 100,000 men and women and was published in the journal Work, Employment and Society, adult daughters who grew up with working moms, are more likely to be employed and if they are employed, they have bigger roles, work longer hours and make more money then their peers who had stay at home moms. Read More

LinkedIn released new research showing what jobs the Class of 2016-2017 scored, with the top one being a Software Engineer, boasting a hefty salary of $92,300. Here are some of the data points that stood out. Read More

Nice guys may get the girl but they won’t get the higher salary, according to a new article from the Harvard Business Review. The article and research are by Miriam Gensowski, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Copenhagen. In her study she looks at how childhood personality and education can impact lifetime earnings and men and women’s overall professional success. Read More

Here is the video of United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley’s commencement address to Clemson’s Class of 2018. Read More

A recent survey of American parents found that roughly three-quarters were concerned that robots might take their kids’ jobs. Well, parents of new grads: Be more worried. This robot can run and jump on its own. Terrifying. Read More