Money and Finance
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Latticework of Mental Models: Do Something Bias (LINK) For Google’s New CEO Sundar Pichai, a Low-Key Style Pays Off (LINK) Buried in the Wordplay: Life Sciences Graduates From Google X - by Steven Levy [author of In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works,...
- Bill Gates: A Conversation With Steven Pinker: Has The World Become More Or Less Violent Over Time?
Steven Pinker’s book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined stands out as one of the most important books I’ve ever read. I recently had a chance to sit down with Steven and discuss some of the points from the book in greater...
- The Man Who Makes The Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen
Found via The Big Picture. He’s not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn’t known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc Andreessen to change the way we communicate. At 22, he...
- Steven Levy: Inside Google
Found via Simoleon Sense. Link to video: Steven Levy: Inside Google.................... Related book: In the Plex ...
- Microsoft Stock Analysis
I've been real busy with work and then getting a chance to be home so I'm late on the stock analysis report. We'll look at software giant Microsoft (MSFT). They are a dividend contender recently hitting 10 consecutive years of dividend...
Money and Finance
Why Google Does Not Own Skype - By Steven Levy
So Microsoft is buying Skype for $8.5 billion, its biggest deal ever. It’s too soon to make a pronouncement on whether the purchase is an idiot move, a brilliant one or just something in between. All the geniuses who ripped the investors who bought Skype from eBay in 2009 don’t look so smart now.
But I will recount a bit of history that readers of In the Plex already know: It was almost Google who owned Skype.
Here’s more detail on the story:
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Related book (which Charlie Munger recommended at the Berkshire Meeting): In the Plex
- Links
Latticework of Mental Models: Do Something Bias (LINK) For Google’s New CEO Sundar Pichai, a Low-Key Style Pays Off (LINK) Buried in the Wordplay: Life Sciences Graduates From Google X - by Steven Levy [author of In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works,...
- Bill Gates: A Conversation With Steven Pinker: Has The World Become More Or Less Violent Over Time?
Steven Pinker’s book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined stands out as one of the most important books I’ve ever read. I recently had a chance to sit down with Steven and discuss some of the points from the book in greater...
- The Man Who Makes The Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen
Found via The Big Picture. He’s not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn’t known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc Andreessen to change the way we communicate. At 22, he...
- Steven Levy: Inside Google
Found via Simoleon Sense. Link to video: Steven Levy: Inside Google.................... Related book: In the Plex ...
- Microsoft Stock Analysis
I've been real busy with work and then getting a chance to be home so I'm late on the stock analysis report. We'll look at software giant Microsoft (MSFT). They are a dividend contender recently hitting 10 consecutive years of dividend...