Each year dozens of publications create "Best Places To Work" lists. So what does your company have to do to make the cut?
Jason Nazar, CEO of Comparably, and Jared Lindzon, Writer at Fast Company, discuss what sets one company's culture apart from the rest. In Comparably's 2017 list, Google came out on top. The tech giant and its tech counterparts frequent these lists year after year. Lindzon notes that many other industries are starting to catch up to tech.
Just because your company isn't on a list this year doesn't mean it can't be next year. Lindzon and Nazar take a look at what it would take for other companies to get onto these lists.
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Swedish buy now, pay later company Klarna is making its highly anticipated public debut on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, the latest in a run of high-profile initial public offerings this year. The offering priced at $40 Tuesday, above the forecasted range of $35 to $37 a share, valuing the company at more than $15 billion. The valuation easily makes Klarna one of the biggest IPOs so far in 2025, which has been one of the busier years for companies going public. Other popular IPOs so far this year include the design software company Figma and Circle Internet Group, which issues the USDC stablecoin..
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison wrested the title of the world’s richest man from longtime holder Elon Musk early Wednesday as stock in his software giant rocketed more than a third in a stunning few minutes of trading. That is according to wealth tracker Bloomberg. A college dropout, the 81-year-old Ellison is now worth $393 billion, Bloomberg says, several billion more than Musk, who had been the world’s richest for four years. The switch in the ranking came after a blockbuster earnings report from Oracle. Forbes still has Musk as the richest, however, valuing his private businesses much higher.
