Sentences with phrase «of other billionaires»

And that goes for a whole lot of other billionaires, investing whizzes, and business execs who have taken a hardline negative stance on Bitcoin price predictions.

In 2000, Milken and a couple of other billionaires put up $ 10 million to start K12 INC with Ron Packard as the CEO.

Bezos's Blue Origin dreams bump up against those of other billionaires.

If the Alibaba founder does acquire the Morning Post — which at one time was the most profitable newspaper in the world — he would be following in the footsteps of other billionaire tech moguls such as Jeff Bezos, the Amazon (AMZN) founder and CEO who acquired The Washington Post for $ 250 million in 2013.

I am sure he has asked all of his other billionaire, media friends, and perhaps he is down to his millionaire friends.»

Not exact matches

New billionaires are emerging «every other day in Asia» and a lot of the wealth is coming from first - generation entrepreneurs, says Sara Ferrari of UBS.

GENEVA — Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

The billionaire has been a vocal critic of Gawker's former Valleywag column for years, calling the New York - based publication «the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda,» among other things.

Hong Kong and Israel have more self - made billionaires than any other place, when considered as a percentage of total population.

Last month, Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire chairman of Interactive Brokers Group Inc., wrote an open letter to CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, arguing that bitcoin's large price swings mean its futures contracts shouldn't be allowed on platforms that clear other derivatives.

Musk's prejudice prompted him to donate millions to the ethics think tank OpenAI — and it's why he's urging other billionaire techies like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's Larry Page to proceed with caution on their myriad of machine learning and robotics experiments.

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

«There's so much ammunition» feeding this movement, agrees Mike Novogratz, a billionaire former hedge fund manager who now has 30 % of his net worth invested in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

GENEVA (AP)-- Russian billionaire and Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich has appeared in a Swiss court as part of a 19 - year - old legal case aimed to wrest 46 million Swiss francs ($ 46 million) in debts allegedly owed by him and others to a European bank.

In fact, while the billionaire doesn't mention it in his op - ed piece, he has also reportedly been involved in financing several other lawsuits against Gawker that haven't gone to trial, some of which have even less legal merit than the Gawker case.

«First of all, the billionaires lobbying the congressmen for this ought to be ashamed of themselves because we're asking doctors and lawyers and other Americans in blue states to take tax increases so we can fund this kind of nonsense,» Druckenmiller told CNBC's Kelly Evans in the interview airing on «Closing Bell.»

The billionaire on Monday donated about $ 3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as four other family charities, Reuters reports.

In 2006, Buffett pledged to eventually give away all his shares of Berkshire Hathaway, and along with Gates, has since convinced other billionaires to make similar commitments through their Giving Pledge campaign.

In addition to the Gates Foundation, the others that received this round of funding are the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which is named for the billionaire's first wife, and his children's foundations: the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Sherwood Foundation and NoVo Foundation.

Some of those who make the list were born in Scotland, while others have since moved there — the country's huge estates providing a magnet for billionaires from all corners of the world.

As billionaire investor Warren Buffett says, «If you're in the luckiest 1 % of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 %.»

The University of Pennsylvania has produced more billionaires than any other university, according to Forbes.

Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.

In 1988, along with Bob Steel and some other future Goldman leaders — former co-presidents John Thornton and John Thain, billionaire investor J. Christopher Flowers, hedge - fund manager Frank Brosens, and Gary Gensler, now head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Blankfein was one of thirty - six men (not a single woman) named general partners.

Billionaire Mark Cuban, for example, has poo - poohed much of the doom and gloom and said that «TV is the new TV,» while media gadfly Michael Wolff has written an entire book about how television isn't being nearly as disrupted as other media industries.

ALTHOUGH the Boao Forum for Asia Conference staged in Perth last month offered a range of star - studded business and other speakers, the address by local billionaire media baron Kerry Stokes was the most disturbing.

Conservative in almost every sense of the word, the billionaire Singer, now 73, insists on hedging all his investments to reduce the risk of loss, and prizes «manual efforts» — in other words, old - fashioned elbow grease — as the defining characteristic of his investment style.

Giving a new college graduate an 832 - page book by a professor sounds like a terrible idea — except your gift will probably register when you say it's on the recommendation of none other than Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.

«We wanted people with a lot of raw intellectual talent, but also people who had strong opinions and who were passsionate about their mission and the world,» says Joe Lonsdale, who along with billionaire investor Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, and a number of others, launched Palantir.

When I left a secure corporate job, I was immersed in writing about visionaries like Jobs, Bill Gates, and others who started companies in their garages or dorm rooms, dropped out of college, and became billionaires.

Now sure enough, this evening Forbes reported that the bankroller of the Hogan suit is none other than Peter Thiel, a prominent Silicon Valley billionaire who styles himself a libertarian but somewhat incongruously is a big time supporter of Donald Trump in addition to numerous other right wing causes, most of which have a distinctly Randian cast.

There are a lot of things about Musk that make him so successful, but I do think there's a «secret sauce» that puts Musk in a different league from even the other renowned billionaires of our time.

The others to sign the pledge include Vinod Kholsa, the venture capitalist; Richard D. Kinder, the founder of Kinder Morgan; Edward W. Rose, the Texas investment banker who once owned the Texas Rangers baseball team with George W. Bush, the former president; Harold C. Simmons, the Texas billionaire; and John Paul DeJoria, co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems.

But as Facebook has taken it on the chin over the way it has handled the personal information of its users, the leaders of other tech companies have demonstrated that even in publicity - hungry Silicon Valley, it is entirely possible for billionaire executives and their sprawling empires to keep a low profile.

Another document is a confidential memorandum prepared for Rebekah Mercer (the daughter of US billionaire Robert Mercer; Wylie has said Mercer provided the funding to set up CA), former Trump advisor Steve Bannon and the (now suspended) CA CEO Alexander Nix advising them on the legality of a foreign corporation (i.e. CA), and foreign nationals (such as Nix and others), carrying out work on US political campaigns.

Many of the headline speakers from the previous conference will be there, including Tim Draper and Lyn Ulbricht, as well as dozens of other «smart money» investors who couldn't make it last time, including Randi Zuckerberg (Founder & CEO of Zuckerberg Media & Early Facebook executive), Mark Yusko (billionaire hedge fund manager and Wall Street money man), Nick Spanos (founder of Blockchain Technologies Corp and featured in the Netflix Banking on Bitcoin movie), David Hirsch (enforcement attorney from the SEC), and Gary Leland, from CryptoCousins.

Patrick has also hosted a series of one - on - one interviews with some of the world's most interesting people, including NBA Hall of Famers James Worthy and Magic Johnson, Author Robert Greene, Billionaire Entrepreneur and NBA team owner Mark Cuban, Indy - 500 Winner Al Unser Jr., Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, author and entrepreneur Robert Kiyosaki, and many others.

As Bezos took a step further into Musk's territory, another billionaire was taking a page out of Bezos's other playbook.

Gates created the Giving Pledge in 2010 with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and they have been joined by 168 others who promised to give the majority of their wealth to charity.

Jeffery Immelt, the CEO of GE, was a Phi Delt, as were a number of other prominent trustees, among them Morgan Stanley senior adviser R. Bradford Evans, billionaire oilman Trevor Rees - Jones and venture capitalist William W. Helman IV.

«If you're a billionaire and you don't like the coverage of you, and you don't particularly want to embroil yourself any further in a public scandal, it's a pretty smart, rational thing to fund other legal cases.»

This won't make you an instant billionaire, but they don't need much in terms of monetary investment, hence they have a lower risk than others.

Simply by encouraging 170 other billionaires around the globe to give back at least half of their fortunes have become a remarkable legacy.

Bezos, unlike other billionaires such as Gates, Buffett and Zuckerberg, who have pledged to give most of their wealth away in their lifetime, has not said what he will do with his fortune.

Fellow billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who famously had a war of words with Ackman on CNBC in 2013, took the other side of Herbalife trade.

Even without that, this eight - page, detail - packed proposal, thrust on Florida and other states not by public demand but by the billionaire brother of a California murder victim, ought to be shelved.

The other reason is that much of the supply of Bitcoin hasn't moved since it was created, as it is tied up in the holdings of «Bitcoin billionaires.»

Among those reportedly sleeping on a thin mattress in the hotel's ballroom is one of Saudi Arabia's richest men, billionaire investor Prince Al - Waleed bin Talal, a part owner of the Plaza Hotel who also has stakes in a slew of other high - profile American companies.

In November, Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire chairman of Interactive Brokers Group Inc., wrote an open letter to CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, arguing that bitcoin's large price swings mean its futures contracts shouldn't be allowed on platforms that clear other derivatives.

Robber Baron Romney and the founders of the Tea Party (Koch brothers & other billionaires) are using religious conservatives.