Megan Sauer is a reporter at CNBC Make It. She specializes in retail, e-commerce, and consumer technology, covering topics such as mobile commerce, consumer electronics, and generative AI. Megan's work has been featured in prominent outlets including NBC New York, NBC Chicago, and CNBC.
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Megan's articles focus on personal finance, entrepreneurship, and success stories. She frequently cites data and seeks expert commentary to substantiate her pieces. To effectively reach out to Megan, consider offering insights or experiences related to successful entrepreneurial ventures, personal finance strategies that are supported by data or industry-specific expertise in business development.
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By: Megan Sauer
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos doesn't have management books stashed in his work bag, on his desk or piled on his nightstand.
By: Megan Sauer, Sophie Caldwell, Sarah Jackson
Travis Di Lombardi-Spicer quit his audio producing job on the spot after getting passed up for a raise in January 2025.
Before Louise Carmen opens at noon nearly every day, young women in long beige and navy trench coats form a line inside Paris' glass-ceilinged Passage du Grand Cerf shopping center.
By: Megan Sauer
If recent college graduates want to get ahead in today's job market, they should focus on being “literate, conversant [and] facile” in artificial intelligence, U.S.
By: Megan Sauer
A growing number of Gen Zers and millennial consumers with disposable income are shifting away from both luxury- and discount-priced retail items alike.
By: Megan Sauer
Kiki Klassen has a monthly routine: She spends hours neatly tucking typed letters and a 4 inch-by-6 inch printed postcard of one of her illustrations — both
By: Renée Onque, Megan Sauer
Two CNBC Make It reporters used flip phones instead of smartphones for four days, as a digital detox experiment. Both say they'd do it again.
By: Tom Huddleston, Megan Sauer
When Cece Meadows started her cosmetics brand Prados Beauty from her daughter's nursery in 2019, she just wanted a job.
By: Megan Sauer, Tasia Jensen
Adam Brand is the fourth generation in his family to run M&S Schmalberg, a New York-based custom fabric flower shop founded by his great-great uncles Morris and Sam Schmalberg in 1916. Today, its flowers of all shapes, sizes and materials appear on Met Gala red carpets and in TV shows like HBO's “Sex and The City” and Netflix's “Bridgerton.”
By: Megan Sauer
When Starr Hutchings Purdue's great-grandfather opened a funeral home in Macon, Georgia, in 1910, undertaking was a reliable way for Black Americans to make a living.
