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Chobani's CEO Is Trying to Prove It](https://time.com/6256830/hamdi-ulukaya-chobani-ceo-turkey-earthquake/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 12, 2023 ### [The King of Super Bowl Advertising Is Basking in Beer’s Big Moment](https://time.com/6254823/michel-doukeris-abinbev-superbowl-interview/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 5, 2023 ### [The Creator of ChatGPT Thinks AI Should Be Regulated](https://time.com/6252404/mira-murati-chatgpt-openai-interview/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jan 29, 2023 ### [Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness Has Beef With the Media](https://time.com/6251008/peter-mcguinness-impossible-foods-myths/) He took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to bust myths about plant-based meat. [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jan 11, 2023 ### [More Employers Using Overtime Loophole to Pay People Less](https://time.com/6246036/employee-overtime-law/) Congratulations on your new role as manager. But before you celebrate, you may want to ask your boss... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Jan 8, 2023 ### [Doing Good: What It Should Mean For CEOs](https://time.com/6245318/ceos-doing-whats-right-leadership-brief/) As the economy struggles, critics are condemning companies’ efforts to become more sustainable, more... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Nov 20, 2022 ### [Intuit's CEO Has a Window Into Our Spending Habits](https://time.com/6235182/interview-intuit-ceo-sasan-goodarzi/) TIME spoke with Intuit's Sasan Goodarzi about how the slowing economy is affecting his customers and... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Aug 14, 2022 ### [Illumina's CEO Has Monkeypox in His Sights](https://time.com/6205656/illumina-ceo-francis-desouza-interview/) The genetic sequencing company's CEO Francis deSouza spoke to TIME about the company’s role in the b... [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 28, 2022 ### [The Numbers That May Have Convinced Elon Musk That Twitter Was Worth $44 Billion](https://time.com/6171871/why-elon-musk-wanted-twitter-in-numbers/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 17, 2022 ### [IBM Was Once King of AI. CEO Arvind Krishna Is Trying to Reclaim That Title](https://time.com/6167753/arvind-krishna-ibm-ceo-interview/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Apr 14, 2022 ### [What Happens Next With Elon Musk’s Bid to Buy Twitter](https://time.com/6167120/elon-musk-twitter-buy-what-happens-next/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Mar 13, 2022 ### [Goldman Sachs CEO on Whether Companies Should Ostracize Russia](https://time.com/6157107/david-solomon-goldman-sachs-ceo-interview/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Feb 20, 2022 ### [Meet the Man Who’s Making Barbie a Hollywood Star](https://time.com/6149760/mattel-ceo-ynon-kreiz-interview/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) *  Dec 12, 2021 ### [Chipotle’s CEO on Fighting the Tide of Quitting Workers: It’s About More Than Higher Pay and Better Benefits](https://time.com/6127415/brian-niccol-chipotle-ceo-interview/) [BUSINESS](/section/business/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/john-simons/","name":"John Simons"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-simons/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/john-simons/"},"name":"John Simons","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/john-simons/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```