Alyson Shontell

@ajs

Editor-in-Chief and CCO, @Fortunemagazine. Former EIC @businessinsider. @NewhouseSU Advisory Board. Proudly married to @lombosco!

New York, NY

Joined March 2009

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jun 4, 2024

The 70th annual Fortune 500 is out! It was the year of AI, travel, high interest rates and efficiency. The largest companies in the U.S. by revenue | Fortune fortune.com/ranking/fortun…

ajs's tweet card. Almost $20 trillion in revenue—and a record-breaking $1.87 trillion in profits. Introducing the 2025 Fortune 500, the definitive list of the biggest companies in America.

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Matthew Prince 🌥@eastdakota · Jul 1

Proud of the Cloudflare team working to build a sustainable business model for the AI-driven web. Happy Content Independence Day! No AI-scraping without compensation.

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FORTUNE@FortuneMagazine · Jul 24

.@perplexity_ai cofounder @AravSrinivas has been studying his competitor, Google, for most of his life. Perplexity knows that speed is one of its advantages over Google, and it is racing to get to that next level of AI-driven commerce before the search giant.…

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 24

Is it Sydney Sweeney x American Eagle...or American Eagle x Sydney Sweeney? Either way...it's worth an 18% gain so far premarket...which would be a market value gain of ~$338 million for $AEO cnbc.com/quotes/AEO?qse…

ccinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic · Jul 23

Sydney Sweeney for American Eagle's Fall 2025 campaign x.com/sweeneydailyx/…

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 24

The billionaires and CEOs panicking about Zohran Mamdani are wrong about Gen Z | Fortune fortune.com/2025/07/23/bil…

ajs's tweet card. Young people aren’t anti-capitalist. They’re just sick of corporate hypocrisy.

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FORTUNE@FortuneMagazine · Jul 23

Tapped by Mark Zuckerberg to lead Meta’s most ambitious AI initiative yet, Scale AI founder @alexandr_wang now oversees a powerhouse team tasked with achieving superintelligence—and outpacing rivals like OpenAI and Google. trib.al/8ECb0M7

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 23

This issue of fortune is 🔥

SSharon Goldman@sharongoldman · Jul 23

Excited to share my first-ever @FortuneMagazine cover story: a deep dive into Meta's superintelligence spending spree, with a massive bet by Mark Zuckerberg on new chief AI officer and Scale AI founder @alexandr_wang. All part of our annual Most Powerful People issue!

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 23

Our new cover story: Alexandr Wang is now leading Meta’s AI dream team. Will Mark Zuckerberg's big bet pay off? | Fortune fortune.com/article/alexan…

ajs's tweet card. Tapped by Mark Zuckerberg to lead Meta’s most ambitious AI initiative yet, Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang now oversees a powerhouse team tasked with achieving superintelligence—and outpacing rivals...

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 22

Agree but it is missing “build a doomsday bunker freedom”

SSahil Bloom@SahilBloom · Jul 22

This is very good.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_ · Jul 20

According to reporting by the WSJ, there are at least ten employees at OpenAI who have turned down $300 million offers from Mark Zuckerberg.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 18

The majority of Fortune 100 companies are now fully in-person, not hybrid | Fortune fortune.com/2025/07/18/ret…

ajs's tweet card. In 2023, only 5% of Fortune 100 desk workers were required to be fully in-office. Today, more than half have been asked to make the switch, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.

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Bob Winslow@bob_wins · Jul 17

Congratulations on the recent and deserved 2025 EFJ Award @erikafry @FortuneMagazine @ajs on this piece. Key point here "Industry insiders and critics agree, the best long-term solution is to not use animals in research at all." Godspeed to "AI and organs-on-a-chip..."…

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 12

Is Tim Cooked? Apple CEO Tim Cook has created more shareholder value than Steve Jobs. But suddenly his weaknesses are on full display in the AI era. ⁦@geoffcolvin⁩ explores if it’s time for Cook to pass the baton fortune.com/2025/07/12/app…

ajs's tweet card. A lackluster AI strategy and a string of executive departures are weighing on Apple's stock.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 7

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CEO Antonio Neri is facing off against an activist investor with a history of forcing out chief execs fortune.com/2025/07/06/hew…

ajs's tweet card. Sources who talked to Fortune pointed to several clues, hiding in plain sight, about what Elliott potentially wants from HPE.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 4

The story of Soham Parekh, who was caught secretly working for multiple Silicon Valley startups at once | Fortune fortune.com/2025/07/04/soh…

ajs's tweet card. Soham Parekh was picking up salary offers of up to $200K per job.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 3

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will accelerate an American energy crisis—and it could cost the U.S. the AI race | Fortune fortune.com/2025/07/03/tru…

ajs's tweet card. The megabill just passed by Congress handicaps clean energy when the U.S. needs more power more quickly.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 3

Katie Miller—who left Trump's White House with Elon Musk—surfaces at xAI | Fortune fortune.com/2025/07/03/kat…

ajs's tweet card. Katie Miller has emerged as a key spokesperson for Musk while her husband, Stephen Miller, remains President Trump's deputy chief of staff.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 3

The Mooch's second act: Anthony Scaramucci's improbable quest to transcend Trump and transform America | Fortune fortune.com/2025/07/02/ant…

ajs's tweet card. The former White House communications director has parlayed his disastrous White House foray into a role as one of Trump’s most arch critics.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 2

Scoop from ⁦@bdanweiss⁩ - Coinbase buys token manager Liquifi as crypto M&A heats up fortune.com/crypto/2025/07…

ajs's tweet card. The largest crypto exchange in the U.S. declined to disclose the cost of the acquisition.

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Alyson Shontell@ajs · Jul 1

If you’re in college and worried about the job market, here’s a good major

KKylie Robison@kyliebytes · Jul 1

Mark Zuckerberg is offering top research talent pay packages of up to $300 million over four years, with more than $100 million in total compensation for the first year, WIRED has learned. Meta has made at least 10 of these offers to OpenAI staffers. wired.com/story/mark-zuc…

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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi · Jun 30

In the last month, Meta went from being a laughingstock in AI to being a real contender (in my head at least) Cost them maybe 2% of the company. Stock is up 10% (market up 5%) Feels worth it for an asymmetric bet Never count Zuck out!

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