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Tag Archives: Fortune
Peter Thiel: Funding intensive technologies means accepting weird, strange, and singular, ideas. – [VIDEO]
This is an addendum to my yesterday’s post on the “Audacious Optimism” event. His (excellent) point on weirdness is 2:50 into.
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Finance, Inventions & Innovations, Philanthropy
Tagged billionaires, capital, enterprise, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, entreprises, extensive technologies, Fortune, funders, funding, giving, innovation, innovators, intensive technologies, inventions, investing, investments, millionaires, Money, Peter Thiel, Philanthropy, startups, Thiel Foundation, wealth
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Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and all the “Giving Pledge” billionaires, should rather do what Peter Thiel does –go investing their cash and/or (liquidated) fortune in futuristic projects. – [VIDEO]
This morning, I wrote that I disaprove Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge operation, because I rather favor billionaires investing in young startups lead by visionaries. Well, just after the publication of that post, I stumbled on the “Audacious … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Finance, Inventions & Innovations, Philanthropy, Research
Tagged Bill Gates, billionaires, capital, Chris Wood, Christine Peterson, enterprise, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, entreprises, extensive technologies, Foresight Institute, Fortune, funders, funding, giving, Giving Pledge, innovation, innovators, intensive technologies, inventions, investing, investments, Mike Kope, millionaires, Money, Neil Jacobstein, Patri Friedman, Peter Diamandis, Peter Thiel, Philanthropy, Ray Kurzweil, Santa Fe Institute, Seasteading Institute, SENS Foundation, Singularity University, startups, Thiel Foundation, Warren Buffett, wealth, X PRIZE Foundation
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Why I am against those billionaires pledging to “give away” the majority of their wealth
Philanthropy has a low ROI. They should rather put their money in a VC fund, and invest it in promising ventures, lead by visionaries. Addendum: WSJ UPDATE: See Peter Thiel’s “Audacious Optimism” event.
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Philanthropy
Tagged Bill Gates, billionaires, capital, Fortune, giving, Giving Pledge, investing, investments, millionaires, Money, Philanthropy, Warren Buffett, wealth
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About the richest 1% of Americans who own roughly half of the entire nation’s wealth
Born Rich – by Jamie Johnson The One Percent – by Jamie Johnson
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Films - Movies, Money, Philanthropy, Politics, Psychology
Tagged Born Rich, Fortune, heirs, Jamie Johnson, Johnson & Johnson, riches, The One Percent, wealth
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Eliot Spitzer has simply demonstrated once again that those who rise to the top of organizations are very often the most demented, conflicted individuals in any group.
The only question that remains for those who work for such people and vote for them when they run is why we continue to be grossed out, shocked and scandalized when the very personality attributes that got them to the … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology
Tagged Client 9, Eliot Spitzer, Emperors Club VIP, Fortune, governor, New York, prostitution, resignation, sex, Stanley Bing
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Journalism Failures — Big Time
— – In February 2001, Fortune magazine named ENRON the “most innovative company”. – In October 2007, Robin Hanson, on the Overcoming Bias blog, re-published the falsehood that James Surowiecki (and 3 other book authors in their respective book) made … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Finance, Prediction Journalism
Tagged Enron, errors, failures, Fortune, Francis Galton, James Surowiecki, Jerome Kerviel, journalim, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, Marc Andreessen, Michigan, mistakes, Open Media, prediction markets, risk, Risk magazine, Robin Hanson, Societe Generale, USD
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Science and Technology Prediction Markets + Media–Exchange Partnerships + Software for Prediction Markets
#1. Science and Technology Prediction Markets I hope that the Pop Sci prediction exchange will induce BetFair, TradeSports-InTrade and NewsFutures to float more science and technology event derivatives —which are “socially relevant”. #2. Media–Exchange Partnerships Is partnering with a media … Continue reading
The man, Michael Bloomberg, runs New York City and may have even grander ambitions.
The company, Bloomberg LP, is a prodigious success and just keeps getting stronger. –> I recommend that you go reading this Fortune magazine story on the business behind the 250,000 Bloomberg terminals around the world. –> There’s something I don’t … Continue reading
If legendary inventor Ray Kurzweil is right, the future will be a lot brighter –and weirder– than you think.
The smartest futurist on Earth – by Fortune magazine Being a hedge fund manager may seem an odd pursuit [*] for an expert in artificial intelligence, but to Kurzweil it’s perfectly natural. [*] It is.