Month: September 2023

Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha has a strategy for making tough decisions. The longtime venture capital investor honed it through decades of experience helping early-stage tech companies like YouTube and Instagram grow into industry giants. He repeatedly watched CEOs get stuck when trying to choose between two options, and it taught him a lesson.
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WOW Singapore Autumn issue #70 If you are a fan of the chronograph, this is truly the best of times, with recent years having delivered some sublime examples of this complication. We celebrate the chronograph in the Autumn issue of WOW Singapore, and invite you to join us.  Such a technical story with multiple components
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Merrily We Roll Along, the new Broadway revival of the Sondheim classic musical starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, broke the six-performance house record at the Hudson Theatre with a $1.3 million gross in its first week of previews. Filling every seat in the venue, the revival carried an eye-popping average ticket price
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In late September 2016, Salena Zito wrote glowingly in The Atlantic about Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Pittsburgh and famously postulated that “the press takes him literally, but not seriously,” while “his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” Leaving aside Zito’s kid-glove treatment of Trump, she wasn’t wrong about the media, which
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SEC Chair Gary Gensler participates in a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Treasury in Washington, D.C., July 28, 2023. Kevin Dietsch | etty Images Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler is testifying before the House Financial Services Committee today. It will be very much like his testimony two weeks ago
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Income at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations rose by £1.7m last year, its latest accounts show. NCVO’s income grew from £5.4m to £7.1m in the financial year ending 31 March 2023, which included £3.8m raised from charitable activities and £2.2m from trading. The membership body said the increase could be mostly put down to
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To be dripping in diamonds usually means that one has reached the upper echelons of success. The sparkling stones often represent life’s milestones—a diamond ring may signify everlasting love, a diamond pendant can symbolize a significant work anniversary. But that’s changed in a lot of ways, thanks in large part to Pandora’s lab-grown diamond collections.
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Image Credit: John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock / Amy Sussman/Shutterstock Ariana Grande, 30, and Ethan Slater, 31, are “really happy” in their new romance, a source told Us Weekly. The singer and actor were seen at Disneyland this week and apparently enjoyed the memorable day with family and friends. “They went [to Disneyland] with a big group of
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The last several years have been quite good for Star Trek fans on the TV front, with shows like Discovery, Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks keeping Paramount+ subscribers entertained. The film side of the franchise, however, has been decidedly lacking, as there’ve been no Star Trek movies released since 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. However,
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The charity behind Parkrun has written to all the major political parties to ask them not to refer to the organisation in their campaigning activities.  Third Sector revealed this morning that the Charity Commission had written to Parkrun trustees after Alistair Strathern, the Labour Party candidate in next month’s Mid-Bedfordshire by-election, posted a promotional video
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Alice Nuttall (she/her) is a writer, pet-wrangler and D&D nerd. Her reading has got so out of control that she had to take a job at her local library to avoid bankrupting herself on books – unfortunately, this has just resulted in her TBR pile growing until it resembles Everest. Alice’s webcomic, writing and everything
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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can tell you first that the new Mean Girls movie that Paramount has been prepping for Paramount+ is going theatrical. The release date is Jan. 12, 2024 – that’s the MLK 4-day holiday weekend. There will be a big marketing play here for the film. This is the second time in recent memory
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While a fairly quiet frame overall, there were some significant milestones this international box office session. To wit: New Line/Warner Bros’ The Nun II topped the $200M mark worldwide and Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan became the highest-grossing Bollywood movie ever in India, overtaking the star’s earlier 2023 movie, Pathaan. The Nun II scared up another
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A fraudster who conned a football charity out of £200,000 has been jailed for almost three years. Fraser White, 24, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, defrauded the Football Foundation using inside knowledge gained from his roles as director of a football academy and as a ticketing executive at Reading FC, Reading Crown Court heard. From June 2020
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