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...There are historical precedents for models with limited production (Aston Martin produced 645 units of the Lagonda) as well as more recent precedents (Ferrari Daytona SP3 limited to 599 units)....
...These days, company founders speak a different language and consciously adopt a less abrasive demeanour....
...in the pre-owned market at significant premiums (as much as 140 and 146 per cent respectively for the Daytona and Nautilus)....
...After losing out to Nikkei in the race to buy the FT in 2015, Axel Springer acquired Insider Inc, the publisher of Business Insider, and now owns a host of other digital news and classified sites....
...A Rolex Cosmograph Daytona with a “Paul Newman” dial, for example, was worth about £10,000. Now, the best realise hundreds of thousands....
...The often abrasive Tesla chief managed to summon up some polite, if muted, approval for the vehicle as he drove it up and down the airstrip in the drizzling rain....
...The broader message was pretty typical of the abrasive German tabloid press. But this image of a sinister-looking Mr Draghi felt more personal, angry and urgent....
...He has tried hard to change the company’s rule-resistant culture as well as introduce a greater focus on safety processes since the ousting of Travis Kalanick, its abrasive founder....
...The company has grown from a struggling outpost of Deutsche Telekom’s empire when Mr Legere joined in 2012 to a brash and abrasive challenger in the staid US telecoms market....
...His foul-mouthed outbursts and abrasive attacks on larger rivals, which he labelled “dumb and dumber”, have done as much to shake up the “stupid, broken and arrogant” US telecoms industry as T-Mobile’s “...
...As Terry Duffy, the abrasive head of CME Group, the Chicago futures exchange, put it at the hearing: “We are discussing a regulatory over-reach by the EU that is in direct challenge to the authority of the...
...Hair, Yusuke Morioka at Coffin Inc using Bumble and Bumble. Fashion assistant, Honey Elias. Photographer’s assistant, Tirtha Lawati....
...Uber is a business previously noted for its abrasive self-belief. New boss Dara Khosrowshahi is more emollient....
...In April, Sotheby’s sold the Pink Star, a 59.6ct fancy vivid pink diamond, for $71.2m, and six months later Paul Newman’s Rolex Daytona fetched $17.8m at Phillips....
...Meanwhile, Randy Quarles, the new lead bank supervisor at the Fed, has said he wants to “change the tenor” of supervision, suggesting that the previous administration was too abrasive towards the banks....
$3.3bn pool of red ink leaves little time to fret about abrasive former boss
...New York’s state banking regulator is battling to keep Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group within its oversight, as Japan’s biggest bank by assets seeks to swap state supervision for a less abrasive federal regime...
...When she was overlooked for the top job at Channel 4 in June, some in the industry put it down to her abrasive personality. Friends say the portrayal is unfair and blame one episode....
...However, entrepreneurs come in all personality types, from abrasive to suave....
...With Travis Kalanick officially ousted from Uber, the transportation company he helped found and grow to a valuation of $62.5bn, he joins an impressive pantheon of abrasive Silicon Valley founders cast out...
...But what stands out immediately is Tesla’s abrasive and standoffish reaction....
...Meanwhile Daniel Korski, one of Mr Cameron’s former aides, had “abrasive” arguments with Isabel Dedring, former deputy mayor in charge of transport, over the issue, according to two people close to Mr Johnson...
...“Trump the president may not be as abrasive as Trump the candidate,” said Simon Marchant, head of corporate at Freshfields. “His instincts, one would think, would be to support business and jobs.”...
...He has an abrasive reputation, but beautiful manners only get you so far in a bushveld mining camp. X2 continues, and could redeem itself with savvy transactions funded case-by-case....
...Mr Maris’s abrasive style made him enemies in some corners of Google, including in Europe, where partners of a separate fund in London grew frustrated when he did not sign off on deals they were trying to...
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