The Accidental Zillionaire

Author : Laura Rich
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780471356318

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The Accidental Zillionaire by Laura Rich Pdf

The first in-depth look at one of the world's richest-and most secretive-businessmen Though his wealth is certainly no secret, the world's fourth richest man remains an enigma. Paul Allen made his fortune as Bill Gates's partner in Microsoft, supplemented it with questionable, though often profitable, venture capital schemes, and has since invested his wealth in a widely divergent list of interests. He owns the NBA's Portland Trailblazers and the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. Among hundreds of smaller ventures, he is a primary stakeholder in the film production company DreamWorks SKG and formerly held a large piece of the widely despised Ticketmaster monopoly. Dubbed the "Accidental Zillionaire" by Wired magazine, Allen has often appeared to be a bumbler who succeeded primarily through luck and by coopting the visionary ideas of others. In The Accidental Zillionaire, Laura Rich, one of the foremost chroniclers of the Internet economy, unravels the secret Paul Allen, his inner motivations, his vision, and his personality. She tells Allen's story from his days as a fledgling computer geek in suburban Washington state, to his role in founding the world's largest software company, to his battle with cancer, to his sycophantic flirtation with Hollywood and its brightest stars. Paul Allen is a man of various interests and passions, but few if any know him well. The Accidental Zillionaire for the first time reveals the inner workings of a towering figure in the worlds of technology, business, sports, and entertainment. Laura Rich (Los Angeles, CA) is a former writer for The Industry Standard, Adweek, and Inside Media. She currently covers the world of digital entertainment for Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, and The Hollywood Reporter. She penned The Standard's popular "Rich List" report and has reported on Paul Allen for years.

Author : Titans
Publisher : Starlight
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Instant Zillionaire: A Weak to Strong Story (I was hit by zillions of golds Book 1) by Titans Pdf

"Mom! Please give me back the three hundred thousand dollars, my sister is dying in the hospital and I need the money to pay her medical bills!!!" Clark Yearth knelt down in front of Stella Martin, his mother-in-law. Stella Martin slapped his face. "What the hell are you talking about, you useless dumb bastard! When do I owe you money?" "The insurance company says you have taken the claim money away..." *** Three days ago, Clark's sister was seriously injured in a car accident and the driver escaped. He thought the insurance claim payment can pay the medical treatment, but he found out that it was already taken by his mother-in-law. What can he do to get everything back?

Author : Lewis D. Solomon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351476348

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The Privatization of Space Exploration by Lewis D. Solomon Pdf

Space was at the center of America's imagination in the 1960s. President John F. Kennedy's visionary statement captured the mood of the day: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." The Apollo mission's success in July 1969 made almost anything seem possible, but the Cold War made space flight the province of governmental agencies in the United States. When the Apollo program ended in 1972, space lost its hold on the public interest, as the great achievements wound down. Entrepreneurs are beginning to pick up the slack-looking for safer, more reliable, and more cost effective ways of exploring space. Entrepreneurial activity may make create a renaissance in human spaceflight. The private sector can energize the quest for space exploration and shape the race for the final frontier. Space entrepreneurs and private sector firms are making significant innovations in space travel. They have plans for future tourism in space and safer shuttles. Solomon details current US and international laws dealing with space use, settlement, and exploration, and offers policy recommendations to facilitate privatization. As private enterprise takes hold, it threatens to change the space landscape forever. Individuals are designing spacecraft, start-up companies are testing prototypes, and reservations are being taken for suborbital space flights. With for-profit enterprises carving out a new realm, it is entirely possible that space will one day be a sea of hotels and/or a repository of resources for big business. It is important that regulations are in place for this eventuality. These new developments have great importance, huge implications, and urgency for everyone.

Author : Nicole LaPorte
Publisher : HMH
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780547487168

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The Men Who Would Be King by Nicole LaPorte Pdf

“The definitive history of the studio” created by the larger-than-life team of Spielberg, Geffen, and Katzenberg (Los Angeles Times). For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood’s Circus Maximus—created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King—an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte, who covered the company for Variety, goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened. Readers will feel they are part of the creative calamities of moviemaking as LaPorte’s fly-on-the-wall detail shows us Hollywood’s bizarre rules of business. We see the clashes between the often-otherworldly Spielberg’s troops and Katzenberg’s warriors, the debacles and disasters, but also the Oscar-winning triumphs, including Saving Private Ryan. We watch as the studio burns through billions of dollars, its rich owners get richer, and everybody else suffers. LaPorte displays Geffen, seducing investors like Microsoft’s Paul Allen, showing his steel against CAA’s Michael Ovitz, and staging fireworks during negotiations with Paramount and Disney. Here is a blockbuster behind-the-scenes Hollywood story—up close, glamorous, and gritty.

Author : Brent D. Taylor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781742169088

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The Outsider's Edge by Brent D. Taylor Pdf

The secret of extreme wealth creation The Outsider's Edge reveals the one common denominator the world's richest self-made people share. Studying the lives of 17 world-famous billionaires, author and researcher Brent Taylor discovered that their one shared experience is that of the outsider. From Bill Gates to Richard Branson to Warren Buffett, being different from their peers, and proud of it, has served as prime motivation for many of the world's most spectacularly successful people. Turning the conventional wisdom about wealth on its head, The Outsider's Edge reveals the true value and importance of being different. Brent Taylor (Australia) is a professional researcher who has worked for more than 20 years as a market researcher to government and corporations.

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0826340334

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Beyond the Missouri by Richard W. Etulain Pdf

This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast and includes experiences and contributions of American Indians, Hispanics, and African Americans.

Author : Michael P. Malone
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803260229

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The American West by Michael P. Malone Pdf

Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes new sections that explore the roles of ethnic groups in the new West, urban developments, western women, and events since the mid-1980s. Original.

Author : Melanie Stewart Millar
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers and women
ISBN : 9781896764146

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Cracking the Gender Code by Melanie Stewart Millar Pdf

Analyses the discourse of Wired magazine from 1993 to 1998 to discuss ideas central to much of digital culture today using the methodology of gender discourse analysis.

Author : Fred Moody
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429978201

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Seattle and the Demons of Ambition by Fred Moody Pdf

Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless port, to a sedate, conventional company town defined by Boeing Aircraft, to an accessible paradise for artists and recovering urbanites, Seattle repeatedly tried and failed to become bigger, wealthier, more like "major league" cities. In the late 1980s, Seattle's time suddenly arrived. Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, and dozens of local dot.com startups began to drive a booming national economy. Seattle became a city of instant millionaires and brand name shopping, skyscrapers and sports franchises-- the place everyone wanted to visit, topping lists of America's "most desirable" cities. But with such wealth came consequences: overdevelopment, paralyzing traffic, racial and class divisions, and a street population of teenagers discarded by the new culture, whose rage and disaffection fueled the rise of bands such as Nirvana. Striving to reach its ambitions, Seattle seemed to be losing the struggle for its soul. And when it hosted the 1999 World Trade Organization convention, the city's conflicted personalities clashed, as violent riots by residents and a coalition of protestors left the downtown decimated and the nation transfixed by the spectacle of globalization gone wrong. In Seattle and the Demons of Ambition, Fred Moody uses his own background as a native son, along with wide-ranging encounters with others, to trace the growing pains of the city he loves. Profiling Bill Gates and never-quite-champion football coach Chuck Knox, a pair of ambitious entrepreneurs and a homeless sculptor once profiled in the New Yorker, grunge music superstars and the preyed-upon children of the documentary "Streetwise," Moody offers a dramatic, entertaining, and insightful portrait of the city that defined economic and technological change in the America of the 1990s

Author : Peter Singer
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812981568

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The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer Pdf

Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.

Author : Earl S. Pomeroy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300142679

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American Far West in the Twentieth Century by Earl S. Pomeroy Pdf

In this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much--if not more--by events and innovations in the twentieth century. Earl Pomeroy gathers copious information on economic, political, social, intellectual, and business issues, thoughtfully evaluates it, and draws a new and more nuanced portrait of the West than has ever been depicted before. Pomeroy mines extensive published and unpublished sources to show how the post-1900 West charted a path that was influenced by, but separate from, the rest of the country and the world. He deals not only with the West's transition from an agricultural to an urban region but also with the important contributions of minority racial and ethnic groups and women in that transformation. Pomeroy describes a modern West--increasingly urban, transnational, and multicultural--that has overcome much of the isolation that challenged it at an earlier time. His final book is nothing short of the definitive source on that West.

Author : Roy A. Allan
Publisher : Allan Publishing
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Microcomputers
ISBN : 9780968910856

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A Bibliography of the Personal Computer [electronic Resource] : the Books and Periodical Articles by Roy A. Allan Pdf

This eBook bibliography on the history of the personal computer and the industry contains over 280 book notations and over 250 periodical notations. It also contains a reprint of an article by the author entitled "What Was the First Personal Computer?"

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 2397 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Male Guitarists by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Pat Williams
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780757317804

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Extreme Winning by Pat Williams Pdf

Extreme winners are not content with being second. That's equivalent to being the first loser. 'Anybody can live life when things are going well; the real test comes when adversity strikes and setbacks nail you. When that happens, how are you going to respond?' It's been five years since Pat Williams learned firsthand what an oncologist was. Five years since he had to actually prove that he bought into his own message in order to beat the cancer attacking the plasma cells in his bone marrow. Five years since he responded to the diagnosis with a new mission for remission and determined to face his mission with one goal - winning! Now, Williams and Kerasotis share that same focus and passion with readers by identifying 12 qualities of extreme winners and by providing all of the tools they need to implement each one. When put into practice - which readers can do right away - there is no telling what can happen. And there is no telling what they can accomplish.

Author : Lara Bergen
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545146074

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Sophie the Zillionaire by Lara Bergen Pdf

Chatterbox. Hero. Zillionaire. Snoop. Everyone loves Sophie! When Sophie finds $50 on the ground one afternoon, it gives her a great idea for a new name! But it turns out that snooty Mindy VonBoffmann already has $100. Sophie has to make more money-and fast. After all, Sophie the Zillionaire isn't a very good name unless she's the richest girl in third grade! But being a zillionaire isn't as easy as Sophie thought. Her latest name is about to turn into a money-making mess!