Andrew Wilkinson
Andrew Wilkinson is the founder of Tiny, a Canadian holding company that owns over 40 businesses ranging from Dribbble, a social network for designers, to the AeroPress coffee maker. Tiny buys wonderful businesses from founders and holds them for the long-term. Andrew successfully bootstrapped the business from zero to hundreds of millions of dollars in value and still holds majority ownership. He has committed to give away at least half of his fortune via his foundation, Tiny Foundation, which is primarily focused on global health, investigative journalism, non-profit reform, and medical research. He lives in Victoria, Canada.
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He won a Pulitzer Prize and the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers in 1990 while working as a business reporter for The Washington Post.
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Uri Levine
Hi, I am Uri Levine, an entrepreneur, mentor, and teacher.
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After building two unicorns - Waze and Moovit --I want to extend my commitment to entrepreneurial thinking by writing this book “Fall In Love with the Problem – Not the Solution, a Handbook for Entrepreneurs”.
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Anthony de Mello
Anthony de Mello was a Jesuit priest and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality. An internationally acclaimed spiritual guide, writer and public speaker, de Mello hosted many spiritual conferences.
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The few talks which he allowed to be filmed, such as "A Rediscovery of Life" and "A Way to God for Today," have inspired many viewers and audiences throughout the United States, Canada, and Central America. De Mello established a prayer center in India. He died suddenly in 1987. His works are readily available and additional writings were published after his death.
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John M. Jennings
John M. Jennings is president and chief strategist of St. Louis Trust & Family Office, a $15 billion wealth management firm. He is an adjunct professor at Washington University’s Olin Business School and writes on wealth management topics for Forbes. He has finance and law degrees from the University of Missouri and a professional certificate in Decision Making and Behavioral Finance from Harvard.
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Personally, he’s of median height, a big fan of coffee, a lover of indie music, and a ravenous St. Louis Blues fan. He lives in University City, Missouri with his wife and dog and has two grown daughters. You can connect with him through his firm’s website, StLouisTrust.com and read his interesting fact of the day blog at www.TheIFoD.com. -
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Lori Gottlieb
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Robert M. Pirsig
Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy K. Pirsig.
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Brent Donnelly
Brent Donnelly has been trading currencies since 1995 and is currently a senior FX trader at HSBC New York. He writes a widely read and highly respected macro and FX daily called AM/FX. Over the course of his career, he has been a market maker, trader, and senior manager at some of the top banks in foreign exchange. He has extensive experience trading spot FX, interest rate products, FX options, stock index futures, single name equities, and commodities.
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Brent is a respected macroeconomic and currency analyst with the unique perspective of a senior risk taker. His work has been quoted by the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and CNBC.
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David Gelles is a reporter for the New York Times, covering mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and Wall Street. You can find most of his most recent work on DealBook.
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Before joining the Times in September 2013, he spent five years with the Financial Times. At the FT, he covered tech, media and M&A in San Francisco and New York. In 2011 he conducted an exclusive jailhouse interview with Bernie Madoff, shedding new light on the $65 billion ponzi scheme.
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Paul Millerd is an independent writer, freelancer, coach, and digital creator. He has written online for many years and has built a growing audience of curious humans from around the world. He spent several years working in strategy consulting before deciding to walk away and embrace a pathless path. He is fascinated about how our relationship to work is shifting and how more people can live lives where they can thrive
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Lawrence Levy
LAWRENCE LEVY is a former Silicon Valley lawyer and executive hired by Steve Jobs in 1994 as CFO and member of the Office of the President of Pixar Animation Studios. He was responsible for Pixar's business strategy and IPO and guided Pixar's transformation from a money-losing graphics company into a multibillion-dollar entertainment studio. He later joined Pixar's board of directors. He then left corporate life to study Eastern philosophy and meditation and their relevance to modern life. He now writes and teaches on this topic and cofounded Juniper Foundation to pursue this work. Originally from London, England, he earned degrees from Indiana University and Harvard Law School. He lives with his wife, Hillary, in Palo Alto, California.
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Sachin Khajuria
Sachin Khajuria is a former partner at Apollo, one of the world's largest alternative asset management firms, and is also an investor in funds managed by Blackstone and Carlyle, among other investment firms. He has twenty-five years of investment and finance experience. Sachin holds two degrees in economics from the University of Cambridge. He divides his time between New York, Switzerland, and London.
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John Mackey
John Mackey is an entrepreneur and the co-founder and visionary of Whole Foods Market. In his 44 years of service as CEO, the natural and organic grocer grew from a single store in Austin, Texas, to 540 stores in the U.S., U.K., and Canada, with annual sales exceeding $22 billion. Mackey co-founded the Conscious Capitalism Movement and co-authored a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling book titled “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business” and follow up, “Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity through Business.” He is also the co-author of “The Whole Foods Diet: The Lifesaving Plan for Health and Longevity” and “The Whole Foods Cookbook: 120 Delicious and Healthy Plant-Centered Recipes.” Mackey current
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Jennifer Risher
Jennifer Risher was born in Seattle, Washington, grew up in Oregon, and graduated from Connecticut College. She joined Microsoft in 1991 where she worked as a recruiter and then as a product manager. She and her husband, David, have two daughters and live in San Francisco, where David is CEO of Worldreader, a nonprofit he cofounded with a mission to create a world where everyone is a reader. In May, 2020 Jennifer and David launched the #HalfMyDAF challenge to inspire more giving. We Need to Talk is Jennifer’s first book.
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Oren Klaff
As Director of Capital Markets for investment bank Intersection Capital, www.intersectioncapital.com, Oren Klaff is responsible for managing the firm’s capital raising platform which includes both direct capital raising and deal syndication. Oren oversees business development and product development and is responsible for the firm’s flagship product, Velocity. He also sits on the investment committee at Geyser Holdings where he has been a principal since 2006. During its growth he was responsible for, marketing, product development, and business development. In the previous five years in the securities markets, Oren has supervised and assisted in the placement of over $400 million of investor capital. Previously, Oren was a venture analyst
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Blake Mycoskie
Blake Mycoskie is the founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes.Blake Mycoskie is the Founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS, and the person behind the idea of One for One, a business model to help a person in need with every product purchased. A simple idea has grown into a global movement: TOMS Shoes has provided over 35 million pairs of shoes to children since 2006, and TOMS Eyewear has restored sight to over 250,000 since launching in 2011. In 2014, TOMS Roasting Company was founded with the mission to provide clean water to developing communities with the purchase of premium coffee.
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TOMS humble beginnings happened unintentionally. While traveling in Argentina in 2006, Blake witnessed the hardships faced by children growing up without sho -
Mike Evans
Startups. Ethics. Adventure. Author of Hangry: A Startup Journey releasing November 2022 - Preorder on my website. Founder at Fixer. Founded GrubHub back in the day.
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Benjamin Hardy
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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
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محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم
Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and absolute monarch of Dubai.
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Adam Piore
Adam Piore is an award-winning journalist based in New York. A former editor and correspondent for Newsweek Magazine, his narrative features have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, GQ, Discover Magazine, Mother Jones, Playboy, Scientific American, the Atavist, BusinessWeek and many others. He is currently a contributing editor at Popular Science and Discover Magazines.
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Frederick Lewis Allen
A graduate of Groton, Frederick Lewis Allen graduated from Harvard in 1912 and earned his master's from there in 1913. Allen was assistant and associate editor of Harper's Magazine for eighteen years, then the magazine's sixth editor in chief from 1941 until shortly before his death. He was also known for a series of contemporary histories that were published during a period of growing interest in the subject among the reading public.
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Gary Sernovitz
Gary Sernovitz has spent the last quarter-century working in and observing how money works, from Goldman Sachs to nearly twenty years at a private equity firm where he is now a managing director. He has also brought his keen writer's eye to America and business through two previous published novels, a non-fiction book, and numerous essays and reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker online, n+1, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.
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Eddie Shleyner
EDDIE SHLEYNER is a freelance copywriter, content marketer, and the founder of VeryGoodCopy.com, where he publishes essays on copywriting, storytelling, and creativity read by millions of people each year.
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Kim Hvidkjaer
Kim Hvidkjaer is an award-winning serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and angel investor, having built companies from startup to exit in several industries.
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He started his first company at the tender age of 19 years old, and as a 29-year-old millionaire, he was aptly named one of Denmark’s “6 Rising Stars.”
Two years later, after a cluster of f*ckups, he found himself broke—having lost more money than the average American earns in a lifetime.
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Trevor Lund
The son of a miller and a secretary, Trevor grew up in the village of Calverley, near Leeds in West Yorkshire. When not enjoying the countryside, Trevor enjoyed sport but, whilst full of energy, was never particularly good. He developed a passion for adventure, for camping and for cycling at a relatively young age, and began organising camping trips with friends around the age of 14. His first 'big' journey came at the age of 21 when he chose to take a year away from home, travelling to the USA, Canada, Hawaii, Australia, Thailand and Malaysia. The highlight of that year away was an 1800 mile cycle journey down the west coast of Canada and the USA on a second-hand bike he had bought for around £20. For the first time in his life, Trevor fel
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Nick Gray
NICK GRAY moved to New York City with very few friends and less-than-stellar social skills. But Nick craved new relationships and exciting opportunities. He started hosting non-traditional parties-a move that opened doors he never could have imagined. Today, after hosting hundreds of 2-hour parties, he counts business owners, artists, and inspiring teachers among a circle of friends that helped him launch a multimillion-dollar company. Featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Nick has been called a host of culturally significant parties by New York Magazine. More at www.NickGray.net or @NickGrayNews on all the socials.
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David Finkel
David Finkel is the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching companies with thousands of clients worldwide. He is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, including SCALE (co-authored with Priceline.com Co-founder Jeff Hoffman) and the soon to be released, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life. David’s syndicated business articles can be seen on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com and have garnered millions of readers and his work has been featured in several prestigious media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. He has helped hundreds of thousands of business lea
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Michele Wucker
Michele Wucker coined the term “gray rhino” to alert people to the obvious risks that we are more prone to neglect yet have more power to manage than we might think. Her new book is You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World (April 2021). Her influential third book, The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore, has moved financial markets, shaped government policy and business strategies around the world, and inspired a popular TED talk expanding the idea to personal issues. She also is the author of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola and Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Righ
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Eric John Campbell
Eric's journey started with a love for business as a kid that led him to live around the world, connecting with other like-minded people. After living in 8 countries, he had a sudden spiritual awakening during the middle of the night where he began channeling words such as, "wake up, it's all energy."
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This spiritual awakening led Eric down a path of synchronicities where he completely gave up the business path and went all-in on his spiritual practices. After attending a never-ending list of spiritual classes from clairvoyant training, to breathwork, and crystal reiki meditation, Eric found his calling in the dance of life as an Author.
Now Eric spends his time writing books that empower you to reach your Soul's Highest Potential and has gain -
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I'm a biopharma advisor at Pharmagellan who specializes in R&D strategy.
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