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☆ Joel Embiid's 'improbable' journey from newcomer to NBA MVP
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Thomas Schlachter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“He’s the biggest film nerd there is in the NBA,” Hanlen laughs. The ultimate scorerDespite his ‘Joel Troel’ alter-ego, Embiid’s approach to the game shows he is everything but a joker who fools around. Speaking after being named MVP, Embiid said: “I’d say the biggest key of it is, obviously, I’m all about family. Arthur is named after Embiid’s late brother who passed away shortly after the 2014 NBA Draft. But improbable doesn’t mean impossible.”Hanlen then summed up Embiid’s overall approach by saying: “I would just say he’s obsessed with greatness.

☆ Vev, founded by ex-Apple staffers, helps entrepreneurs instantly launch their businesses. Check out the 12-slide pitch deck it used to raise $5.3 million.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Dutch startup founded by Apple alumni has raised $5.3 million from Notion Capital. Check out the 12-slide pitch deck it used to raise the fresh funds. Vev, a startup founded by ex-Apple staffers, has just raised $5.3 million from Notion Capital and Point Nine Capital. The round was led by European B2B SaaS and cloud venture capital firm Notion Capital, which has previously backed GoCardless and Paddle. Check out the 12-slide deck used to raise the fresh funds.

☆ Luxury developers in Los Angeles bet someone will pay record prices for these condos
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Ray Parisi | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

According to the building's website, the crown-jewel residence delivers almost 13,000 sq ft of indoor living area and nearly 6,000 sq ft of outdoor space. According to Eklund, the package deal brings the total interior footage to somewhere around 13,000 sq ft with an additional 6,000 sq ft outside. Building amenities include an over 12,000 sq ft outdoor area with pool, fireplaces and dining area. Her mega-deal spanned 15,500 sq ft at a price per sq ft of almost $2,250. On Central Park, he said, trophy condos have surpassed $10,000 and even $12,000 a sq ft. "That happens a lot, so is Los Angeles undervalued still?

☆ Elon Musk has been in several TV shows and movies over the years. See his 11 cameos from 'South Park' to 'Rick and Morty'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk has become a media personality in his own right, from his viral tweets to appearances on a slew of TV shows and movies. Elon Musk has been featured in several TV shows and movies over the years. Musk is close friends with Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, one of Hollywood's most powerful agents and the inspiration for the character of Ari Gold on HBO's "Entourage." The billionaire is also reportedly friends with comedian Nathan Fielder and the creators of "Rick and Morty," to name a few of his Hollywood connections. Sources: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Insider

☆ It's not all gloom and doom on Wall Street. Here's where finance firms are still hiring.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

For many on Wall Street, those questions are top of mind. Insider's finance team canvassed more than a dozen recruiters to get their takes on the job market. From investment banking to hedge funds to fintechs, here's who's hiring and who's at risk of making more cuts. Click here to read more about the hiring landscape across Wall Street, from banks to hedge funds and fintechs. We've got a list of the best and worst US airlines, according to The Wall Street Journal.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno on Monday said he was no longer interested in selling the team he has owned for 20 years after announcing in August that he was looking for buyers. "This offseason we committed to a franchise record player payroll and still want to accomplish our goal of bringing a World Series Championship back to our fans. The Angels won their lone World Series in 2002, shortly before Moreno purchased it, and the team has struggled in recent years with its last postseason appearance coming in 2014. "Despite strong buyer interest in the Angels, Arte Moreno's love of the game is most important to him," Manfred said. Reporting by Rory Carroll in Los Angeles; Editing by Himani SarkarOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Meet 8 new cars from the LA Auto Show, where the electric future is rolling out to the public
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Andrew Moseman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

After a three-year pandemic hiatus, the in-person version of the Los Angeles Auto Show has returned. The show featured a slew of electrified vehicles and the presence of charging companies. As the show opens to the public, take a look at the best of what's new. This article is part of the Ride Along series, a collection of stories recapping some of the biggest auto shows around the country. But in Los Angeles, automakers preparing for a seismic shift talked up their electric futures.

☆ I analyzed all 48,000 words of Jeff Bezos' Amazon shareholder letters. The visionary billionaire does 8 impressive things that prove he's a master of written communication.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Carmine Gallo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Thankfully, you won't need to wait for a business school to offer a class on the Bezos letters. Make the mission your mantraIn his first letter, Bezos laid out the principle that would drive the company's decisions for the next quarter century: customer obsession. In his 2017 shareholder letter, Bezos explained that while the quality of written memos varies widely, some have "the clarity of angels singing." Surround yourself with superstarsIn his 1998 letter, Bezos revealed the questions Amazon hiring managers ask themselves when they evaluate job applicants. Bezos wrote, "Day 2 is stasis.

☆ Remaking the River That Remade L.A.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Michael Kimmelman | Photographs Adali Schell | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +33 min

Remaking the River That Remade L.A.February 1938 was a wet month in Los Angeles. Reservoirs overflowed, dams topped out and floodwaters careered down Pacoima Wash and Tujunga Wash toward the Los Angeles River. The Los Angeles River was never a storybook river of the kind that, like the Hudson or the Seine, we associate with great cities. Among the naysayers is a venerable organization called Friends of the Los Angeles River, founded by the Texas-born poet and performance artist Lewis MacAdams. “With all the problems L.A. is facing,” he said, “even if it costs $50 billion to fix the river, we should just effing do it.”The headwaters of the Los Angeles River aren’t easy to find.

☆ Cleveland Cavaliers win eighth straight, down LeBron James and struggling Los Angeles Lakers, 114-100
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Alasdair Howorth | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Just a week after Halloween, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers continued their scary start to the season, losing 114-100 to a hot Cleveland Cavaliers team and falling to 2-7 on the year. The Lakers have only won a single third quarter this season, and that poor post-intermission trend came back to haunt them once again. The Cavs blew away the Lakers, starting the half with a 13-4 run and outscoring Los Angeles 29-16 in the quarter. “We were playing catch-up.”James shooting against his former team in what was to be the Lakers' seventh loss of the season. “They did a great job in the offseason of picking up a big-time player,” James said after the game about Mitchell and his former team.

☆ Leaked L.A. City Council Audio Exposes the Racial Underbelly of Local Politics
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Will Swaim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

The ground shakes periodically in Southern California, but Los Angeles has rarely experienced a political earthquake as sudden and severe as the one that rocked City Hall this week. The leaked October 2021 recording, published first on Reddit and then by the Los Angeles Times, captures a shockingly candid conversation among City Council President Nury Martinez and Councilmen Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León . Ron Herrera , Los Angeles County’s top union leader, was also present. The four met to discuss how they might carve up the city’s voting districts to maintain Latino political power. Few of the hyperdiverse city’s racial and ethnic groups went uninsulted.

☆ 'L.A. Confidential' at 25
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Brian Lowry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

So it’s worth a moment, 25 years after its debut, to give some love to “L.A. Confidential,” the film noir adaptation of James Ellroy’s tale of corruption in the city of Angels that seemingly did everything right, only to be washed over by the understandable wave of enthusiasm that surrounded James Cameron’s massive hit, “Titanic.”Directed by the late Curtis Hanson, “L.A. Confidential” didn’t walk away from the Academy Awards empty handed, taking trophies for adapted screenplay and co-star Kim Basinger as the proverbial call girl with a heart of gold, and a striking resemblance to Veronica Lake. The investigation eventually swept up a trio of officers, turning them into unlikely allies in seeking to expose the truth. Confidential” was released by Warner Bros., which, like CNN, is a unit of Warner Bros.

These are the best seed investors backing European firms, based on data analysis from Tribe Capital. Insider and Tribe also identified the Seed 10: the best female early-stage investors. We have listed the top 50 seed investors into European firms, based in countries including the UK, Sweden, Turkey, and the US. Insider has also detailed the 10 best female seed-stage investors in Europe in the Seed 10 list. How Tribe Capital selected and ranked Insider's Seed 50 and Seed 10 lists of the early check-writers in Europe

☆ В Китае от отравления умер миллиардер Линь Ци — продюсер сериала для Netflix и разработчик стратегии по «Игре престолов»
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( ) nokta.md time to read: +3 min

Чуть позже полиция Шанхая сообщила, что Линь Ци был отравлен. Полицейские рассказали, что 17 декабря получили сообщение из больницы, куда с признаками возможного отравления госпитализировали Линь Ци. В рамках дела, предположительно, задержан глава отдела кинопроизводства компании Yoozoo Сюй Яо, сообщает пекинское издание Caixin, ссылаясь на слова неназванных источников в игровой индустрии. Линь Ци стал продюсером проекта наравне с шоуранерами сериала «Игра престолов» Дэвидом Бениоффом и Дэном Вайсом. Линь Ци занимал 870-е место в списке самых богатых предпринимателей Китая по версии Hurun Report.

Persons: Yoozoo, Линь Ци, Сюй, Сюй Яо, Лю Цысиня, Дэвид Бениофф, Дэн Вайс Organizations: Yoozoo, Netflix, Hollywood, BBC, CNN, Медуза, СМИ, Коммунистическая партия Locations: Китай, Шанхай, КНР

FIF Queer Voices te invită să privești filme despre cultura ballroom din comunitățile LGBTQI+ din mai multe țăriFestivalul Internațional de Film Queer Voices III — Queerantine edition , ce va avea loc între 18 și 20 decembrie, te invită să privești o selecție colorată de filme despre cultura ballroom din Regatul Țărilor de Jos. Ca de obicei, FIF Queer Voices a compilat un program excepțional de 14 filme ce descriu situația comunităților LGBTQI+ din mai multe țări. Astfel, te invităm să descoperi două filme despre comunitățile ballroom din Amsterdam și Rotterdam. „Ouăle mamei”, 2018Un documentar despre Amber Vineyard, fondatoarea primei case olandeze de ballroom — House of Vineyard. Vezi aici detaliile FIF Queer Voices.

Persons: Amber Vineyard, Amber Organizations: gay Locations: Regatul Țărilor de Jos, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Amber

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