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Reid Hoffman has certainly a thing or two to say about tech entrepreneurship and successful investment: Co-Founder of LinkedIn, partner at Greylock Partners, founding member of PayPal, and angel investor in Facebook, Zynga, Flickr, and Last.FM.  He is also a member of the LinkedIn, Zynga, Shopkick, Kiva.org, and Mozilla boards,...

Having friends is a source of balance for an individual's life, but not a few are the cases where we stop being friends with people and either replace them with others or leave a gap in their place. Today we talk about all those reasons that drive friendships to end....

In early 2020 when the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 began spreading rapidly across the globe, many of us were lucky. As shelter-in–place policies began to crop up around the world, organizations sprung into action and quickly moved services online in order to accommodate social distancing amongst the uncertainty.  Restaurants began to...

As of 21 May 2022, with a net worth of roughly $201 billion, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, followed by Jeff Bezos(No. 2, $131 billion), Bernard Arnault(No. 3, $123 billion); and Bill Gates(No. 4, $116 billion). Warren Buffett is the fifth-richest person globally, with $110 billion....

The integrated steel manufacturing and recycling company InfraBuild recently announced its half year financial results, marking with it an improvement across all financial metrics. According to the Australian company the business delivered solid financial and operational results, with CEO and managing director Vik Bansal stating “volumes are strong with growth...

China is a huge and interesting country. It is a financial and cultural center and certainly a place most of us want to visit. Even if you are there for business, it is worth seeing the best cities in the country, or at least the ones that attract the most...

As of 14 May 2022, with a net worth of roughly $224 billion, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, followed by Jeff Bezos(No. 2, $137 billion), Bernard Arnault(No. 3, $125 billion); and Bill Gates(No. 4, $118 billion). Warren Buffett is the fifth-richest person globally, with $112 billion....

When Frances Townsend talks, people listen — and when the former chair of the Homeland Security Council sounds the alarm about vicious cyberattacks on America, it’s critical to heed her words. As far back as 2010, the top adviser to President George W. Bush was ahead of the pack investigating...

As of 8 May 2022, with a net worth of roughly $247 billion, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, followed by Jeff Bezos(No. 2, $139 billion), Bernard Arnault(No. 3, $124 billion); and Bill Gates(No. 4, $123 billion). Gautam Adani is the fifth-richest person globally, with $120 billion....

A colleague of mine tells a difficult story about the ethics troubles of a multi-billion-dollar Canadian pharmaceutical company I’ll call pHarmX. It exemplifies an incredibly poignant lesson about the ethical choices in our personal and professional lives.  Several years ago, pHarmX developed a drug that safely lowers the aldehyde levels...