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When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side?

In this uniquely American memoir, Homer "Sonny" Hickam beautifully captures a moment when a dying town, a divided family, and a band of teenage dreamers dared to set their sights on the stars. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career that fulfilled his boyhood ambition, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking listeners into the life of the little mining town and the boys who came to embody both its tensions and its dreams.

The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve.

Este produto é um resumo do livro original de mesmo título. "Um livro excepcionalmente valioso àqueles que desejam construir a própria empresa, independentemente da fase de vida."Do prefácio de Paul D. Paganucci, professor de Administração de EmpresasAté mesmo os inimigos de Ray Kroc concordam que havia três coisas que ele fazia extremamente bem: vender hambúrgueres, ganhar dinheiro e contar histórias.

Menino pobre, criado sozinho pela mãe num cortiço, Luiz Barsi Filho se tornou uma lenda no mundo dos investimentos. Não foi da noite para o dia. Ele começou a investir no final dos anos 1960, passou por sucessivas crises e planos econômicos, e prosperou em (quase) todos os momentos.

Edwin Lefevre was a stockbroker and an independent investor, as well as a novelist and writer of short stories. This lightly fictionalized account of the career of stock speculator Jesse Livermore was first published in 1923. Now, nearly 100 years later, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator remains highly recommended for an understanding of investment. Lefevre’s trading advice and analyses of market price movements are as relevant today as in 1923.

To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, deutscher Philosoph und Idealist: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Adam Savage is a maker. From Chewbacca’s bandolier to a 1,000-shot Nerf gun, he has built thousands of spectacular projects as a special-effects artist and the cohost of MythBusters. Adam is also an educator, passionate about instilling the principles of making in the next generation of inventors and inspiring them to turn their curiosity into creation. In this practical and passionate guide, Adam weaves together vivid personal stories, original sketches and photographs from some of his most memorable projects, and interviews with many of his iconic and visionary friends.

Anxiety, fear of failure, self-consciousness: these are not the qualities you imagine when you hear the word "heiress". But in this powerful account, Christina Lewis Halpern applies a journalist's eye to her own struggles following the death of her father, the late entrepreneur Reginald F. Lewis, when she was 12. At the time of his death in 1993, Halpern's father was the richest black man in America.

He was a genius who gave the world access to technology that is still changing the world. To this day, his greatest accomplishment is the iPhone and still is. Taken away too soon, his legacy still lives on. Countless entrepreneurs look up to him and use his advice to succeed in the business world. If it wasn't for him, we would have never been introduced to portable computers and mobile phones with touch screens.

Once Donald Trump’s fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried. This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century. As Trump’s lawyer and “fixer”, Cohen not only witnessed firsthand but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trump’s business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration.

Sie wurden ausgesetzt oder von Lkw überfahren – und heißen nun »Pizza Man«, »Fire Chief« oder »Snowball«. Zu Hunderten haben sie Zuflucht gefunden in einem Haus in Massachusetts. In diesem Refugium für Schildkröten tritt Sy Montgomery einen Freiwilligendienst an – und lässt uns an einer lebensverändernden Erfahrung teilhaben: Wenn wir unsere Existenz mit den Augen dieser uralten, gemächlichen und langlebigen Wesen betrachten, bekommen wir eine Ahnung von dem, was uns überdauern wird.

In No Woman Left Behind, Grant recounts her decision to abandon a promising advertising career, and the ups and downs of building Silicon Valley–based Fistula Foundation from a modest start-up into the global leader in fistula treatment. Through vivid firsthand accounts of surgeons toiling in remote corners of Africa and Asia, we see inside the fight to restore hope to some of the world’s most vulnerable women.

Découvrez l'histoire fascinante de Steve Jobs, le génie visionnaire qui a transformé le monde en fondant Apple Inc. et en révolutionnant des industries telles que la technologie, la musique, le cinéma et les télécommunications. Cette biographie est une immersion profonde dans son parcours, explorant son enfance, sa formation, son ascension fulgurante et les impacts durables qui ont façonné la société moderne.

Long before creating Covet by Christos, the world's leading livestreamer of all things luxury, future founder and CEO Christos Garkinos grew up in Detroit as the gay son of Greek immigrants and started working in his parents' diner at the age of four. Seeking a bigger life post-college, Garkinos took a job under Richard Branson in the mid-90's heyday of Virgin Megastores. Beginning to rub shoulders with A-list celebrities, he embarked on a 25-year fashion and media career with many highs and lows.

2000 च्या सुमारास भारतात आय.टी.ची बूम आली. बहुसंख्यांनी आय.टीत नोकऱ्या करणं सुरु केलं. पण केवळ नोकरी न करता आय.टी.त असा उद्योग उभा करणं की ज्यातून इतरांना नोकऱ्या देता येतील, असा धाडसी प्रयत्न नरेंद्र काळेंनी केला, ऐकुया त्यांची यशोगाथा.

स्वातंत्र्यानंतर भारतात लढाऊ विमानं तयार करणारी एकच कंपनी होती, हिंदुस्तान एरॉनॉटिकल्स अर्थात हि.ए. या कंपनीवर हलक्या लढाऊ विमानांच्या निर्मितीची जबाबदारी टाकण्यात आली. हरि नारायण यांच्यावर ही जबाबदारी येऊन पडली. तत्कालीन भारतात फार विकसित तंत्रज्ञान नव्हतं, अशा परिस्थितीत अमोल यादव या मुंबईच्या तरुणानं हाती काही नसताना, कोणतंही पाठबळ नसताना नव्या विमानाचं प्रारुप कसं बनवलं हे पाहणं कौतुकास्पद आहे.

सोसायटीशी संबंधित कामांमध्ये बागकाम हे महत्वाचं ठरतं. एकूण सोसायटी किंवा बंगले यांचं आवार हे नीटनेटकं आणि उत्तम देखभाल केलेलं असेल तर त्याचा प्रभाव चांगला पडतो. अशाच बागकामाचा व्यवसाय करणाऱ्या, अवघ्या 27 वर्षांच्या शुभम काळदातेची ही गोष्ट.

सुरु केलेल्या उद्योग-व्यवसायात येणारी आव्हानं आणि त्याचा सामना कसा करावा, हे सांगणारी प्रेरक उद्योगकथा.

आजी-आजोबांना आताच्या युगातलं तंत्रज्ञान म्हणजेच मोबाईल, त्यातली विविध एप्स हाताळायला शिकवणं, त्यांना तंत्रस्नेही बनवणं, ही काळाची गरज आणि एक उत्तम व्यवसाय संधीही आहे, कशी ते ऐकुया.

चालू वर्ष हे महामानव डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या एकशे पंचविसाव्या जयंतीचं आहे. डॉ. आंबेडकरांनी दलित समाजाला मोकळा श्वास घेण्याची संधी दिली, नवं आकाश दाखवलं. त्या समाजाचा आवाज बुलंद केला. प्रत्येकानं शिक्षण घेतलंच पाहिजे असा आग्रह धरला. त्यातूनच कर्तबगारीची नवनवी शिखरं दलित बांधवांनी काबीज केली.

एका पर्यावरणपूरक यशस्वी उद्योगाची कहाणी म्हणजे — 'कौशल सोलार — उद्योग सौरउर्जेचा'

कम्फर्ट झोनच्या पलीकडे जात सुरु केलेल्या उद्योग-व्यवसायात येणारी आव्हानं आणि त्याचा सामना कसा करावा, हे सांगणारी प्रेरक उद्योगकथा.

महाबळेश्वर आणि मॅप्रो हे एक अतूट समीकरण आहे. आबालवृद्धांना आवडणारी मॅप्रोची जॅम्स, सिरप, फलेरो चॉकलेट्स याच्या निर्मितीची कथाही तितकीच चवदार आहे. चला, ऐकुया.

Nur sechs Tage nach der Geburt ihrer Tochter Leni merken Vanessa und Markus, dass etwas nicht stimmt. Sie alarmieren den Notarzt. Es folgt eine beunruhigende Odyssee aus Krankenhausaufenthalten, Untersuchungen und schlaflosen Nächten - und dem Ausblick auf Operationen, die schwerwiegende Konsequenzen für Leni haben. Durch Höhen und Tiefen halten die Eltern zusammen, stützen sich auf Ärzt*innen und den Fortschritt der Medizin. Ein Mutmacher-Hörbuch über Hoffnung, Resilienz und den Wert der Familie.

Von Walter Isaacson, dem Autor des Millionenbestsellers über Steve Jobs: Die ultimative und hochaktuelle Biografie über Elon Musk, den faszinierendsten und umstrittensten Innovator unserer Zeit. Heute gilt Elon Musk als Visionär, der sich über alle Regeln hinwegsetzt und der unsere Welt ins Zeitalter der Elektromobilität, der privaten Weltraumfahrt und der künstlichen Intelligenz geführt hat. Dabei waren seine Anfänge weitaus bescheidener.

Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields - except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST).

Mount Everest is known to everyone—but what of the person after whom it was named? This book traces the life and profession of that person, George Everest. In particular, it covers his life dedicated to surveying in India during the first half of the nineteenth century. George Everest went to India at the tender age of sixteen but within a few years was leading survey parties into the remotest areas of the subcontinent. His particular passion was geodesy—the determination of the size and shape of the earth—and he soon became Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey.

The journey of an entrepreneurial Orthodox Jewish American-Israeli woman who founded an educational organization and ran an inner-city charter school. Nicki Salfer built a business working with special-needs children while overcoming personal struggle, and explains her amazing story in a fresh and relatable memoir.