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☆ A former bodyguard for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt shares what his job was like and the biggest misconceptions about protecting celebrities
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-13 | by ( Mark Ellwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Mark "Billy" Billingham was a bodyguard for years for stars like Angelina Jolie and Russell Crowe. Billingham's biggest job, he said, was an 18-month position working full time for Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their family. "I was literally working 18 hours a day, every day, and I stayed with them," he said. Decoys and detours are great ways to test new security detailsIn his role as the head of security, Billingham had to coordinate the entire security team, including what's often a huge army of drivers. The ruse for new chauffeurs began with telling them about the next day's route for Pitt and Jolie in advance.

☆ Twitterverse vigilance scares LVMH CEO into dumping his private plane
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Renault, 73, the world’s second-richest man with a net worth of over $149 billion, said he has sold his private jet because he was Twitter-shamed over his frequent plane use. “Indeed, with all these stories, the group had a plane and we sold it,” Arnault told an LVMH-owned radio station, on Monday. “It’s not very good that our competitors can know where we are at any moment,” Antoine Arnault told the radio station. Elon Musk tried to pay off a 19-year-old from Florida to stop tracking his private jet use. Jack Sweeney rejected the $5,000 offer from Musk to delete his Twitter account that tracks the Musk’s private jet journeys.

Buying other companies is one option to help maintain its historical 20%-plus annual revenue growth, a person familiar with Amazon's deal process said. While Amazon doesn't necessarily prey on companies in trouble, the company is extremely price disciplined, the person familiar with Amazon's deal process told Insider. Bertucci has been a part of some of Amazon's largest transactions, including leading the MGM and One Medical deals. According to the person familiar with Amazon's deal process, Amazon only brings in investment banks when acquisitions reach roughly the $1 billion mark. Indeed, the One Medical deal alone could have netted Goldman and Morgan Stanley, which repped One Medical, in the tens of millions in fees.

☆ Elizabeth Banks Thinks This Interview Is Dangerous for Her
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +21 min

I don’t know where, but people are seeing it. I don’t know what they thought that movie was meant to be marketing-wise, but it was a little gem for us. He basically said, Pay me or I’m going to tell your wife. Let’s do another one.” Ray said, “OK, what do you want me to do differently?” The director said: “I don’t know. I don’t know that there’s any way to communicate that to you.

☆ Cannabis companies are reeling from the market downturn, and they're slashing jobs and reining in spending to survive
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Jeremy Berke | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Cannabis companies from startups to public giants are laying off employees as sales slow. The cannabis industry is in a full-on downturn. Cannabis companies also don't have access to much of the nuts-and-bolts of the banking system like their non-cannabis counterparts. Investment into cannabis companies has dried upThe spigot has slowed to a trickle on the once-plentiful venture-capital and private-equity firehose of investment into cannabis startups. Hauser said that capital for cannabis companies is only getting more expensive and more elusive.

☆ Jordan's 'Last Dance' jersey sells for record $10.1 million
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The previous record was established earlier this year at Sotheby's, with Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona's "Hand of God" jersey fetching a staggering $9.3 million. REUTERS/Nathan Frandino Read More"Yet again, today's record-breaking result... solidifies Michael Jordan as the undisputed G.O.A.T, proving his name and incomparable legacy is just as relevant as it was nearly 25 years ago." Jordan's jersey was expected to fetch $3 to $5 million at Sotheby's "INVICTUS" auction and eclipsed the $3.7 million spent in May on Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers jersey worn in his rookie year -- the previous record for a basketball jersey at auction. It also broke the record for any item of Jordan sports memorabilia after his autographed relic card from 1997-1998 sold for $2.7 million. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru Editing by Christian RadnedgeOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Reading 2 short sentences in 'Millionaire Teacher' convinced me to change my retirement savings strategy, and it's helped me earn thousands
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-27 | by ( Alexis Rhiannon | Read More | Read Less | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Four years ago I'd started saving for retirement, but I was too afraid to actually invest the money. But reading the book "Millionaire Teacher" opened my eyes: I learned quickly that I was missing out on years of compound interest. But then, two short sentences in the book "Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned In School" finally convinced me the answer was yes. "Over the past 90 years," Hallam wrote, "the US stock market has generated returns exceeding 9% annually. 'Millionaire Teacher' challenged my preconceived notions about the marketBefore I read "Millionaire Teacher," my understanding of the stock market was vague and amorphous.

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