Forbes
—
Stanford Professor David Cheriton wrote Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page their first check. He is now a billionaire.
Ryan Mac
Verified
As seen in:
The New York Times,
CNN Business,
MSN,
MSN India,
The New York Times en Español,
UOL,
Bloomberg Businessweek,
Bloomberg News,
E-investidor,
Estadão,
Forbes
and
Covers:
billionaires, music, money, technology, startups, business, wealth, silicon valley
tech reporter @NYTimes. ryan.mac@nytimes.com. Signal: rmac.18
Ryan Mac’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridReid Hoffman And Peter Thiel Share The Secrets Of Breaking Into Tech's Most Exclusive Network - F...
Forbes
—
He who builds the best network wins, and Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel have spun two of the finest webs in Silicon Valley. A couple of weeks ago FORBES hosted them at Stanford University, where they met as undergraduates 25 years ago, for a conversation about investing, friendship, psychopath CEOs and why the five-mile radius around Stanford will always be the center of the technology universe.
Electronic Cash Kings - Forbes
Forbes
—
Spinning tunes now means minting cash. These ten DJs earned the most over the past 12 months.
Tiësto And The Evolution Of The Electronic Music Business - Forbes
Forbes
—
Holland's Tijs Michiel Verwest is a man of firsts. Better known as Tiësto, the 43-year-old DJ was the first to play the Olympics, performing in Athens in 2004; seven years later he filled a 26,000-seat arena in California, the biggest crowd for a solo electronic act in U.S. history. Now he's the first to top FORBES' inaugural ranking of the world's highest-paid DJs. Tiësto pulled in an estimated $22 million over the past 12 months, playing more than 100 shows-a big raise from his beginnings, when he charged $50 a night. "Whenever I made money I invested in myself...
Xiaomi's Lei Jun: China's Answer To Steve Jobs? - Forbes
Forbes
—
There aren't many American entrepreneurs who would have the nerve to compare themselves to Steve Jobs and Apple. To find a guy crazy enough to do that, you have to go to China. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Lei Jun, the jeans-and-black-shirt-wearing billionaire founder of Xiaomi, China's hottest smartphone company. And, if you believe Lei, the next Steve Jobs. Beijing-based Xiaomi sells an Android smartphone called the MI-One.
Superpowered Investing Tips: Heroes And Villains Give Business Advice At Comic Con 2012 - Forbes
Forbes
—
Bruce Wayne, or Batman, doesn't like talking about net worth. Despite being worth $6.9 billion and ranking in at number eight on Forbes' Fictional 15, Wayne, who was making his obligatory appearance at Comic Con 2012 in San Diego, declined to discuss his money with FORBES.
Spaceflights From New Mexico Desert Depend on New Jobs
Bloomberg News
—
The frontier of commercial spaceflight, which opened when NASA's shuttle program ended this month, is taking shape in an unfinished assembly of metal, glass and concrete that resembles a rust-colored stingray burrowed halfway into New Mexico 's desert. "Spaceport America" bills itself online as "the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport" and will be the official home of Virgin Galactic, billionaire Richard Branson 's venture that proposes to take tourists into suborbital space. It's about 75 miles southwest of the Trinity atomic-bomb test site where the U.S. ushered in the nuclear age 66 years ago.
Lobbying for a Trillion-Dollar Tax Holiday
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
—
U.S. multinationals have parked more than $1.3 trillion in profit overseas, avoiding federal income taxes. Typically, when earnings are returned to the U.S.-or "repatriated"-they are taxed at the 35 percent corporate rate, with credits for foreign income taxes paid. U.S. multinationals, however, are seeking a reprise of a 2004 tax holiday that allowed them to repatriate offshore earnings at a rate of 5.25 percent. Under that break, companies brought home $312 billion. They did little direct hiring or domestic investment with the cash, according to several independent studies. Instead they used it largely for stock repurchases.
Lawyer joins spill challenge
Orange County Register
—
Standing on the shores of Bayou La Batre in Alabama, Luan Tran glanced across the water, shielded his eyes and watched a few boats trudge across the bay. The "Seafood Capital of Alabama" was quiet, without its usual buzz of Vietnamese American-owned boats trawling for shrimp and other seafood. Two weeks earlier the biggest oil leak in U.S. history had erupted. Now, as Tran looked on, cleanup crews were the only people on the water, men and a few women in plastic overalls and heavy boots, frantically stringing boom lines to prevent oil from floating ashore.
Man returns to O.C. with Vietnamese baseball team
Orange County Register
—
When Thomas Treutler and his family made their decision to permanently move back to Vietnam, he looked out across a baseball field for what would be the last time in a long time. Shifting his eyes from the outfield grass, he watched his son Ben, then 5, run the bases in his Garden Grove PONY baseball game.
Stanford Considers Bringing R.O.T.C. Back
New York Times
—
Jimmy Ruck, a Stanford University junior, wakes up at 5:20 a.m. so he can make the 15-mile journey to Santa Clara University, where he attends training as part of the Reserve Officer Training Corps, or R.O.T.C. It begins at 6:15. Promptly. "They have a saying in the Army - 'If you're on time, you're late, and if you're five minutes early, you're on time," Mr. Ruck said. He has to get up early because there is no R.O.T.C. program at Stanford.
The Temptation to Cheat in Computer Science Classes at Stanford
New York Times
—
In January, on the first day of the Computer Science 106A: Program Methodology course at Stanford University, Eric Roberts, the professor, began with his customary admonition: Cheat, and you will be caught. And, he added: Cheat, and your classmates will suffer. More weight will be given to the final exam when calculating the final grade. These are not idle threats in a department where it may be easy to cheat (cut, paste some code, voila!) but it is just as easy to detect cheating. (It is the computer science department, after all).