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...The author Bret Easton Ellis said in 2016 that if his novel American Psycho were updated for this century, its investment banker protagonist could “just as easily be a hedge-funder in New York: Patrick Bateman...
...A new board was appointed, which includes former Salesforce chief Bret Taylor and ex-US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Only D’Angelo, Quora’s chief executive, remained from the old board....
...or pushed product releases at an unsafe pace, according to former Salesforce boss Bret Taylor, who was appointed OpenAI chair after the previous board was disbanded....
...BTW, love your spelling of Bret — we should be able to get you on a first-name basis in no time. Great move on the board changes....
...A new board has since been instituted including former Salesforce co-chief executive Bret Taylor as chair....
...Because he overdid the violence a tad, Bret Easton Ellis doesn’t get due praise for capturing this cast of mind — this need for speed — through the character of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho....
...The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (WF Howes, 23 hrs 3 mins)Drawn from events in the author’s life — and read by him — this gripping tale of elite private school students who become fixated on a series of murders...
...D’Angelo remains as part of a three-person transitional board alongside former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers and former Salesforce chief executive Bret Taylor, its chair....
...The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, Swift Press £25/Alfred A Knopf $30, 608 pages...
...In both cases, those styles came straight after periods of high-slung waists – look at the trousers of the 1970s or the 1980s power suits: Patrick Bateman, the prototypical yuppie of Bret Easton Ellis’s...
...Likewise, I’m in agreement with Bret Stephens about the disturbing silence from many of those same students about the really horrific Israeli rape victim stories....
...Now OpenAI has a new “initial” board that includes former Salesforce co-chief Bret Taylor, Larry Summers and previous board member Adam D’Angelo. Altman is back as chief....
...Former Salesforce chief executive Bret Taylor will lead the new-look board as chair. Former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers has also been drafted in to provide experience....
...By late Tuesday in California, D’Angelo was the only survivor of the corporate crisis, as Altman was reinstated by the company and a new board was announced, led by former Salesforce chief executive Bret...
...by Fox presenters Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum....
...Among those who rallied to Altman’s side were Airbnb founder Brian Chesky, prominent venture investor Ron Conway and former Salesforce executive Bret Taylor, according to people with knowledge of the situation...
...It’s a thought that came to me by way of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel The Shards, in which the narrator speculates that the decline of the serial killer as a social phenomenon has everything to do with the...
...Companies that already process junked cars were well positioned to play a role in handling batteries, said Jefferies analyst Bret Jordan....
...Walter Isaacson reports in his Musk biography that on March 31, Twitter staff booked an Airbnb farmhouse (with “tractors and donkeys”) near San Jose airport so that CEO Parag Agrawal and board chair Bret...
...Finally, and to return to the top of this note, Bret Stephens’ New York Times column “The Case for Trump . . . By Someone Who Wants Him to Lose”....
...The tech founder will return under the supervision of a new board that includes former Salesforce CEO Bret Taylor as chair, former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers, and Quora chief Adam D’Angelo — the...
...Early-20th-century modernist furniture is so linked to ’80s style that when the film adaptation of American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis’s bloodthirsty satire of the decade – appeared in 2000, Patrick Bateman...
...(Though spare a thought here for the real-life Broaddus family, who were profoundly affected.)...
...I’ve been watching a lot of Brian De Palma recently. The aesthetic is very inspiring. And I’ve been watching Less Than Zero” – the cult 1987 film based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis. He stops....
...The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (Swift Press/Knopf) Ellis fans have had their patience tested in recent years, but The Shards — a semi-autobiographical story of murder and excess in the San Fernando Valley...
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