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☆ How VC Moritz Baier-Lentz went from being one of the world's best professional gamers to the new head of Lightspeed's gaming practice
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Moritz Baier-Lentz is joining Lightspeed Venture Partners as a partner to lead its gaming practice. Before becoming a top gaming investor, he was the top global professional "Diablo II" player. But he ditched his competitive gaming career for a more traditional career path in business. Lightspeed Venture Partners' newest partner Moritz Baier-Lentz has been a prominent gaming investor for years, orchestrating deals for big banks like Goldman Sachs and backing startups in the gaming space as an early-stage venture investor at BITKRAFT Ventures. Baier-Lentz put his gaming career on pause to go to college and then went on to work as a data manager for IBM.

☆ Buttigieg shuts down Fox News host Bret Baier's questions about his diplomatic travel with Chasten: 'Why is it any different when it's me and my husband?'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Pete Buttigieg called out Fox News host Brett Baier for applying a double standard to his marriage. "That's quite a spin to put on it," said Buttigieg, who led a presidential delegation in April to the Invictus Games, a sporting competition for wounded veterans. When Baier asked whether Chasten's trip was reimbursed, Buttigieg responded, "Of course not!" The diplomatic protocol on a presidential delegation, he said, has long been that the principal is accompanied by their spouse. Buttigieg, a veteran who served as a Navy intelligence officer in Afghanistan, said leading the presidential delegation was "one of the great honors of my time in this job."

REUTERS/Mike BlakeDec 13 (Reuters) - Fox Corp (FOXA.O) Chairman Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath on Tuesday in a defamation lawsuit over his network’s coverage of unfounded vote-rigging claims during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The deposition comes as special committees of the boards of directors for News Corp (NWSA.O) and Murdoch-controlled Fox Corp consider a proposal from Murdoch to re-combine, nearly a decade after the companies split. Murdoch will be questioned via videoconference on Tuesday and Wednesday by lawyers for Dominion, according to a filing in Delaware Superior Court. On Dec. 5, Murdoch’s eldest son and executive chair and CEO of Fox Corp (FOXA.O), Lachlan, sat for a deposition in Los Angeles. Murdoch’s other son, James Murdoch, was questioned in October.

Christopher Gregory/Getty ImagesDonald McGahn, Trump campaign counsel: I was at the top. Trump's 2016 campaign aides said they paid about 50 people, including part-time actors, to appear as supporters for his 2016 campaign announcement. Corey Lewandowski, Trump campaign managerCorey Lewandowski: I called my wife just as we were getting onto the plane. Stuff that would be from Mars on any other campaign was perfectly normal for the Trump campaign. Mark J. Terrill/AP photo Show less Trump at the Republican National Convention while Cruz speaks on July 20, 2016.

☆ Buynomics uses behavioral economics to help predict customer behavior. Here's the 14-slide deck it used to raise $13 million led by Twitter-backers Insight Partners.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Cologne-based Buynomics has raised $13 million from Insight Partners. The startup collects customer transaction data and market insights to help inform companies' commercial decisions. Check out the 14-slide deck used to raise the fresh funds. "Our model builds on an insight that people as groups are very predictable," said cofounder Sebastian Baeir. With the fresh funds, Buynomics will focus on developing its user interface and plan its expansion into the US.

☆ Hurricane Ian forced America's largest senior living facility to evacuate 700+ residents
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailHurricane Ian forced America's largest senior living facility to evacuate 700+ residentsCindy Baier, president and CEO of Brookdale Senior Living, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss having to evacuate over 700 elderly residents due to the severity of Hurricane Ian, the plan for returning residents home and the organization's track record of positive monthly net hires.

☆ Fox News' Bret Baier responds to book's report that he wanted to rescind his network's Arizona call in 2020: 'I never said the Trump campaign 'was really pissed''
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The book "The Divider" recounts Bret Baier pushing Fox to rescind its decision to call Arizona for Biden. Baier tells Insider the "full context" of his email was not reported in the book. The authors stand by their book and note that his statement doesn't deny the accuracy of the email they reported. "In addition, it's especially notable that Baier wrote in the email that it would be better for Fox News 'to put it [Arizona] back in [Trump's] column,'" she wrote. I never said the Trump campaign 'was really pissed' – that was from an external email that I referenced within my note.

☆ Bret Baier wanted to rescind Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Biden in 2020 and wrote in an email, 'The Trump campaign was really pissed,' book says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fox News anchor Bret Baier "was ready to give into" pressure from Trump after the network said he lost Arizona, new book says. "'The sooner we pull it...and we put it back in his column the better we are,'" he wrote, according to the book. "'The Trump campaign was really pissed,' he wrote in an email to Jay Wallace, the president and executive editor at Fox," according to the book set for publication on Tuesday. "'It's hurting us,'" he wrote, according to the book. The spokesperson noted that Arnon Mishkin, the head of the Decision Desk who was in charge at the time of the Arizona call, is returning for the November elections as Decision Desk head.

☆ How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World
▼ + stars: | 2019-04-03 | by ( Jonathan Mahler | Jim Rutenberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +61 min

Murdoch family, 1987: Lachlan, James, Anna and Rupert. The second season of HBO’s “Succession,” whose fictional media family, the Roys, bears a striking resemblance to the Murdochs, airs this summer. ‘A press dictatorship’To understand how the Murdoch empire works, it is essential to return to its origins. The bigger Murdoch’s empire became, the more power he had to clear away obstacles to further its expansion. Like his father, Lachlan considered the idea of meddling with such an important profit driver a form of madness.

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