Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Richard Branson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist.[4] He founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies.[5]
Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records—later known as Virgin Megastores—in 1972. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic airline and expanded the Virgin Records music label. In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Virgin Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism.
In March 2000, Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace for "services to entrepreneurship".[6] For his work in retail, music and transport (with interests in land, air, sea and space travel), his taste for adventure, and for his humanitarian work, he has become a prominent global figure.[7][8] In 2007, he was placed in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in The World.
Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance; on his last day at school, his headmaster, Robert Drayson, told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.[13] Branson's parents were supportive of his endeavours from an early age.[14] His mother was an entrepreneur; one of her most successful ventures was building and selling wooden tissue boxes and wastepaper bins.[15] In London he started off squatting between 1967 and 1968.[16]
Elon Musk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Elon Musk
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Musk in 2016
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Elon Reeve Musk
June 28, 1971 |
| Residence | Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, United States[1][2] |
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| Occupation | Entrepreneur, investor |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Net worth | US$22.3 billion (November 2018)[5] |
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| Political party | Independent |
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| Partner(s) | Grimes (2018–present)[7] |
| Children | 6 (1 deceased) |
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| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
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Elon Reeve Musk FRS (/ˈiːlɒn/; born June 28, 1971) is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer.[8][9][10] He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship
As of October 2018, he has a net worth of $22.3 billion and is listed by Forbes as the 54th-richest person in the world.[14]
Musk has envisioned a high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop, and has proposed a vertical take-off and landing supersonic jet electric aircraft with electric fan propulsion, known as the Musk electric jet.[20][21] Musk has stated that the goals of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity revolve around his vision to change the world and humanity.[22] His goals include reducing global warming through sustainable energyproduction and consumption, and reducing the risk of human extinction by establishing a human colony on Mars.[23]
Born and raised in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk moved to Canada when he was 17 to attend Queen's University. He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he received an economics degree from the Wharton School and a degree in physics from the College of Arts and Sciences. He began a Ph.D. in applied physics and material sciences at Stanford University in 1995 but dropped out after two days to pursue an entrepreneurial career. He subsequently co-founded Zip2, a web software company, which was acquired by Compaq for $340 million in 1999. Musk then founded X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000 and later that year became PayPal, which was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in October 2002.[19]
In May 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company, of which he is CEO and lead designer. He helped fund Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle and solar panel manufacturer, in 2003, and became its CEO and product architect. In 2006, he inspired the creation of SolarCity, a solar energy services company that is now a subsidiary of Tesla, and operates as its chairman. In 2015, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that aims to promote friendly artificial intelligence. In July 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain–computer interfaces, and is its CEO. In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company, an infrastructure and tunnel-construction company.
Monday, September 24, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Monday, March 12, 2018
Broadcom, Qualcomm, Intel
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/broadcom-to-be-acquired-for-37-billion-in-largest-ever-tech-deal/
Broadcom, and would be the third largest US semiconductor company by revenue, behind Qualcomm and Intel.
Intel's largest chip acquisitions were Infineon (wireless) and Wind River (embedded solutions), and Qualcomm's acquisitions are too numerous to list here (Wi-Fi chip maker Atheros for $3.1 billion was probably its biggest pick-up).
Avago. It began its life as the semiconductor division of HP way back in 1961, but in 1999 it was spun-off with another division of HP, Agilent. In 2005, Avago was acquired by private equity firms KKR and Silver Lake Partners, and in 2009 the company went public. Under CEO Hock Tan, the old-but-young company has been making big moves ever since.
With its acquisition of LSI, and now Broadcom, Avago seems to be making a play to become... a mainstream chip company. LSI's strength was mostly I/O (networking, storage controllers); Broadcom is one of the biggest players in wireless tech, networking, SoCs, and DSPs (for set-top boxes and the like).
Combined, Avago-LSI-Broadcom will be one of the largest chip companies in the world. As for what impact it might have on the market, it's hard to say. Avago's CEO has a history of acquiring companies, and then selling off less-proven divisions and doubling down on reliable, profit-driving products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcom_Limited
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
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