Sentences with phrase «tech billionaire who»

For what it's worth, I enjoyed Jackson's performance as an infantilized tech billionaire who serves a McDonald's banquet to guests of honour at his palatial estate.

«Lucifer» will be rested for a new series, «APB,» in which Justin Kirk plays a tech billionaire who takes on a crime - ridden district of Chicago.

Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who is attempting to destroy Gawker Media by funding lawsuits against it, has long served on the Facebook board of directors.

In a series of tweets on December 1, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who founded SpaceX, said he planned to launch a Tesla electric car to Mars orbit in 2018.

Other tech billionaires who have donated to public health include Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Musk, the Silicon Valley billionaire who is also the co-founder and CEO of SpaceX, has been one of tech's most vocal AI sceptics.

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.

Post, of MosaMeat, who created the first hamburger from cultured animal cells in 2013 with backing from Google billionaire Brin, believes some of his competitors have set unrealistic timelines to market in part because that's what tech investors want to hear.

This brings up a good question: why should anyone care who a billionaire tech CEO is following on Twitter?

But in another post written under Luckey's Reddit pseudonym, there are echoes of a similar tech billionaire, Peter Thiel, who used his deep pockets to secretly fund a campaign against Gawker.

The billionaire who regularly clashes with tech's biggest CEOs told CNBC's Squawk Box that eBay's corporate governance leaves a lot to be

Both companies are linked to tech - driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump's campaign: Cambridge is chiefly owned by Robert Mercer, the computer scientist and hedge fund magnate, while Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Mr. Thiel, who was an initial investor in Facebook.

CNBC's article is on Berkelely International, a matchmaking service who count «high - profile CEOs, tech billionaires and various...

Not simply concerned with billionaire arms dealer - turned - metallic hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Justin Theroux's story features a bevy of superheroic figures outfitted with deadly artillery, from Stark pal Lt. Colonel Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle, taking over for Terrence Howard) decked out in his own silvery weaponized War Machine suit, to a straggly haired, heavily tattooed Russian genius named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) who mimics Stark's tech to create an outfit equipped with energy - beam whips, to a horde of gigantic drones programmed to kill.

While Eggsy undergoes the ultra-competitive training program (with only one recruit earning a spot as a Kingsman), Harry investigates a potential threat involving a tech - genius billionaire named Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) who wants to save the Earth from the dangerous effects of climate change by wiping out most of humanity.

Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a coder at a Google - like company called Bluebook, wins an employee lottery to spend a week with CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), an eccentric billionaire genius who lives in a remote, high - tech house on a mountain estate, the better to conduct his mind - blowing experiments without scrutiny.

Robert Downey Jr. (The Soloist, A Scanner Darkly) reprises his role as narcissist hi - tech playboy billionaire Tony Stark, who finds his world popularity surgiing after his adopted superhero status has caused the longest era of peace on Earth in memory.

Reversion (Unrated) Sci - fi thriller about the daughter (Aja Naomi King) of a high - tech billionaire (Colm Feore) who starts wondering about the accuracy of her memories of her late mother after she's kidnapped by a stranger (Jeanette Samano) with a hidden agenda.

Ex Machina will apparently follow the promising young employee of a billionaire tech maven, who is hand - picked to join his boss for a week - long vacation at a private villa.

Book of Numbers By Joshua Cohen Random House • $ 18 • ISBN 9780812986655 In this epic and ambitious novel, the narrator is a ghostwriter named Joshua Cohen who's been hired to write the memoir of a tech billionaire also named Joshua Cohen.

Both companies are linked to tech - driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump's campaign: Cambridge is chiefly owned by Robert Mercer, the computer scientist and hedge fund magnate, while Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Mr. Thiel, who was an initial investor in Facebook.

The company is backed by a billionaire in China who runs LeEco, a tech giant that makes smartphones, virtual - reality headsets, and TVs.