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☆ The era of Big Tech moonshots is over. Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are pulling back on ambitious, risky long-term projects after many of them failed.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Hugh Langley | Eugene Kim | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have scaled back their ambitious "moonshot" projects. Moonshots like Google X and Amazon Grand Challenge allowed tech firms to build innovative projects. Before Amazon, Parviz led a similar team at Google called Google X. Page and Brin championed X projects they loved, helping them gain funding and headcount within the unit. Parviz, who created the once-hyped-up Google Glass, left Google X in 2014 to start Amazon's Grand Challenge.

☆ Musk and Brin: A brief history of the billionaires' friendship leading up to rift caused by an alleged affair
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-24 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Google cofounder Sergey Brin was a longtime friend and investor of Elon Musk. Musk and Brin often spent time sharing ideas with Google cofounder Larry Page, Vice reports. Wall Street Journal reports Musk had an affair with Brin's estranged wife in 2021. Brin, a Tesla investor, provided the struggling company with $500,000 during the 2008 financial crisis, according to WSJ. Brin reportedly acknowledged the gesture but still doesn't speak to Musk regularly, the Journal says.

☆ Family offices have become a $6 trillion powerhouse in investing—and deal-making
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-11 | by ( Robert Frank | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Family offices now manage more than $6 trillion in wealth, according to some estimates, surpassing the estimated $4 trillion managed by hedge funds. Many billionaire hedge fund managers, seeking lighter regulation or freedom from benchmarks and outside investor demands, are also converting to family offices. Singapore recently created a Family Office Development Team to lead and coordinate initiatives that will attract more family offices. The Wealth Management Institute has launched the Global-Asia Family Office Circle in Singapore to attract more family offices. Even family offices that serve more than one family often receive an exemption from the SEC to keep their filings confidential.

Persons: Andrew Cohen, John Paulson, Leon Cooperman, That's, Exchange Sara Hamilton, Cohen, John D, Rockefeller, J.P, Morgan, Goldman Sachs, " Cohen, Morgan Stanley, Daniel DiBiasio, We've, Michael Dell's, Goldman, Gregg Lemkau, West, Byron Trott, Sara Hamilton, Nicky, Jonathan Oppenheimer, Sergey Brin, James Dyson, Bill Hwang, Alexandria Ocasio, Dennis Kelleher, Kelleher, Archegos, Hamilton Organizations: Street, Morgan Private Bank, Forbes, Federal Reserve, Campden, Family, Exchange, JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley Family, MSD Partners, Container Technologies, BDT Capital Partners, Wealth Management Institute, Google, SEC, Archegos Capital Management, Rep, Better Locations: Asia, U.S, Wall, West Monroe, Singapore, Alexandria, Cortez, Archegos

☆ Google's '20% rule' shows exactly how much time you should spend learning new skills—and why it works
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-16 | by ( Dorie Clark | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

This makes it difficult to set aside time to explore ideas that interest us or learn new skills. Enter: Google's "20% time" rule, a concept made popular when Google went public in 2004. Win — even if you loseThis is the ultimate way to make sure your 20% time doesn't go to waste. The point isn't that you have to do your 20% time every Thursday afternoon; the point is to do it, period. But if difficult tasks are the only thing you do, you may grow bored or frustrated and want to quit.

☆ The luxury boats owned by some of the wealthiest people in tech, from a yacht so big it has its own support boat to superyachts with swimming pools and basketball courts
▼ + stars: | 2021-08-10 | by ( Grace Kay | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Many billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson enjoy spending their time on luxurious yachts. Here are some of the billionaires in tech who own private yachts. Beyond the private planes occupying the hangars of billionaires, yachts have come to symbolize the highly private sites of leisure and networking reserved for the ultra-wealthy. Chartering yachts owned by billionaires like Alphabet cofounder Sergey Brin has previously cost customers anywhere from $773,000 a week to $1.2 million. Take a look at some of the yachts that have been owned by tech billionaires.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Jane, fiancée Lauren Sanchez, Bezos, MacKenzie Scott, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Paul Organizations: Morning, Amazon, Tech, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg

☆ Topul celor mai bogați oameni din lume în anul 2021, conform revistei Forbes
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-07 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Așadar, mai jos găsiți topul celor 10 miliardari care sunt considerați cei mai bogați oameni din lume în anul 2021. Acum, acesta este directorul general al companiei și deține 16 % din aceasta. Studii: Bezos este licențiat în „Arte și Științe”, Universitatea Princeton din SUA. Cu toate acestea, și-a pierdut interesul pentru educație și a renunțat la universitate după un semestru. Studii: este licențiat în „Arte și Științe” la Universitatea Michigan, are un masterat în științe la Universitatea Stanford.

Persons: Jeff Bezos, Elon, Musk, Tesla, Bernard Arnault, Louis Vuitton, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett, Larry Ellison, Lawrence Joseph Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Lawrence Edward, Larry, Page, Mukesh Organizations: Forbes, Universitatea Princeton, Universitatea Pennsylvania, Politehnică, École, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft, Facebook, Harvard, Universitatea din, Universitatea Columbia, Oracle Corporation, Google, Universitatea, Universitatea Stanford, Universitatea Maryland, Reliance Industries Locations: Amazon, SUA, francez, Paris, Seattle, Harvard, american, Berkshire, Omaha, Nebraska, Universitatea din Nebraska, americană, Universitatea din Chicago, Universitatea Michigan, Rusia, Ambani, indian, Reliance, India, Universitatea din Mumbai

☆ This is the most common zodiac sign among the world's richest billionaires
▼ + stars: | 2020-05-08 | by ( Anna Papadopoulos | Ceoworld Magazine | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Libra was the most common sign, with 27 notable billionaires, like Ralph Lauren and Alice Walton. Pisces was next in line, while Cancer came in third as the most common billionaire sign. But did you know one zodiac sign, in particular, is the most likely to produce billionaires? A study has figured out the most common star sign among the world's wealthiest billionaires. With notable billionaires including Ralph Lauren, Stefan Persson, Liliane Bettencourt, Alice Walton, Libra is the star sign of 27 famous-wealthy faces.

☆ The career rise of Susan Wojcicki, who rented her garage to Google's founders in 1998 and is now stepping down as the CEO of YouTube
▼ + stars: | 2019-12-09 | by ( Paige Leskin | Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Susan Wojcicki provided the garage space where Google was founded in 1998 and later became one of its first employees. On Thursday, she announced she's stepping down. Here's a glimpse at the life of 54-year-old Susan Wojcicki, who has an estimated net worth of $765 million. She went on to serve as CEO of YouTube for nearly a decade before announcing Thursday that she's stepping down. As Wojcicki vacates the role, here's a glimpse at her life and rise at Google from employee No.

☆ Google's Sergey Brin Is Totally Obsessed With High-Adrenaline Exercise
▼ + stars: | 2014-08-19 | by ( Madeline Stone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"When Larry and I started the company, we had to get some hard drives to, you know, store the entire Web," Brin told Wired of Google's early days. AdvertisementEven in the search engine's early days, Brin brought an element of fun and activity to the Googleplex. "They were much better than I expected for a bunch of engineers," he told Edwards. In 2008, he learned that he had a mutation on his LRRK2 gene, a defect that would substantially increase his risk of developing Parkinson's disease. Advertisement"If I felt it was guaranteed to cure Parkinson’s disease, a check for a billion dollars would be the easiest one I have written," Brin told Bloomberg.

Persons: Sergey Brin isn’t, Larry Page, Larry, Brin, Sergey, Doug Edwards, Edwards, couldn’t, Googlers, Greg Roberts, Roberts, Google George Salah, Jacob Silberberg, Page, Eugenia, Parkinson's, Anne Wojcicki, Wojcicki, Michael J Organizations: Khan Academy, Khan, University of Maryland, Stanford, Google, Circus Center, Flickr, 23AndMe, Fox Foundation, Parkinson's Research, Bloomberg Locations: San Jose, Moscow, Soviet Russia, rollerblades, Sunset, Queens, Brooklyn, New York City, San Francisco, New York

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