At 20 years old, I became a CEO. I dropped out of college, and prior to this, I had only interned at another company. I couldn’t imagine the journey that would start with writing code all day to scaling to 300 people. I got lucky — I screwed up a lot, but had a lot of help.
Here’s what I learned along the way:

Giving up control is hard. At the beginning, I felt like everything was important. But you can’t be good at everything. Over time, I learned the importance of consciously and constantly giving things up. Without learning this, you won’t scale and the company will suffer.

Read more at Time.

Every business needs to have a written business plan. Whether it’s to provide direction or attract investors, a business plan is vital for the success for your organization. But, how do you write a business plan?

Read more at The Blowup NYC.

Wishing will not bring riches. -- Napolean Hill 

This quote from self-help author Napolean Hill is (pardon the pun) right on the money. You have to do something other than wish for it in order to become rich. But what something should you do? One way to achieve wealth is by buying stocks.

Read more at The Motley Fool.

Saudi Arabia has banned women from driving since the 1950s, and is the only country in the world to do so. But this Sunday that prohibition ends. Nick Schifrin looks at the state of women's rights in the kingdom, and the long and winding road to allow females behind the wheel.

Read more at PBS News.

To celebrate his 50th birthday, American skateboarding icon Tony Hawk recently performed 50 of the tricks he created that helped catapult the sport into becoming a social and cultural phenomenon. NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker talks to Hawk about his legacy, getting older and the evolution of the skateboarding industry.

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Manuel Martinez, who fled Honduras because gangs were trying to recruit his 12-year-old son, was prepared to be separated from his child after paying a smuggler to cross the Rio Grande by boat and getting arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol.

His worst fears never came true.

Martinez pleaded guilty to illegal entry on Wednesday — the day President Donald Trump ordered an end to the separating of families — and, while he wasn’t kept under the same roof as his son, they were held in the same compound. They were reunited on Saturday, after five days apart, and were released into the U.S., a tracking device on Martinez’s ankle, while he pursues asylum.

Read more at PBS News.

Joel Johnson examines the shipping labels on 35-ton coils of American-made steel that will be unspooled, bent and welded into rounded sections of pipe.

One’s from Nucor, a mill in Arkansas. Another’s from Steel Dynamics in Mississippi. But much harder to spot in the sprawling factory yard is the imported steel that’s put his company in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s bitter trade dispute with America’s allies and adversaries.

Read more at Associated Press News.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was proclaimed the winner early Monday of a landmark election that ushers in a government system granting the president sweeping new powers and which critics say will cement what they call a one-man rule.

The presidential vote and a parliamentary election, both held more than a year early, completed NATO-member Turkey’s transition from a parliamentary system to a presidential one, a process started with a voter referendum last year.

Read more at Associated Press News.

Wind-driven wildfires destroyed buildings and threatened hundreds of others Sunday as they raced across dry brush in rural Northern California.

The Pawnee Fire that broke out Saturday near the community of Clearlake Oaks has destroyed 12 buildings and threatened an additional 600 as it burned out of control across about 12 square miles (31 sq. kilometers). Authorities ordered people to evacuate all homes in the Spring Valley area, where about 3,000 people live.

Read more at Associated Press News.