Jeffrey Skoll: Meet the Canadian billionaire who’s giving it all away
“I was living in a house with five guys, eating their leftovers when they weren’t watching. … I went from that to having $1-billion-plus on paper.” – Jeffrey Skoll
How Tycoons Think and View the World
Sometimes you’re treated like a skunk at a tea party. But that’s the fate of anyone who challenges the status quo. – Rupert Murdoch
I just discovered Hell on Wheels a couple of weeks ago and decided to give it a try because there was nothing else to watch. I ended up liking it. While the lead character is a walking cliche, the real star and saving grace of the show is railroad magnate Thomas Durant as played by the great Colm Meaney. Durant was one the tycoons who built the first transnational railroad after the Civil War.
The History Channel’s The Men Who Built America
One of the most interesting tycoons of the era was Jay Gould. As mentioned in another post, Jay appears only briefly in the first episode of the series when it tells the tale of Jay and his partner-in-crime selling watered down stock certificates to Cornelius Vanderbilt as he attempted to acquire control of the Erie Railroad. These two characters are worthy of an entire episode in the next segment of the series.
Jay Gould was considered by some to be the finest financial mind among the lot, even more so than banker J.P. Morgan. Gould partnered early on with a colorful character by the name of Jim Fisk who could as easily have been a grifter if he had not been fortunate enough to impress Gould. The two came to have a number of battles with the Commodore. Continue reading
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man
Incredibly, Mark Zuckerberg has grown up to become an ace CEO—one whose way of thinking might drive Wall Street nuts.
Here’s a gushingly enthusiastic profile of Facebook founder just before the company’s IPO.
Tycoon: Eike Batista, Chairman and CEO, EBX
Brazil’s wealthiest tycoon and the world’s 8th richest man shares his insights and philosophy on creating wealth and helping mankind. All too often billionaires are associated with Donald Trump types who appear only interested in personal aggrandizement through the sale of gaudy condos. Fortunately, they are not all like that. Mining magnate Batista is motivated by the goal of helping his country improve economically and socially.
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