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...Sullivan & Cromwell feels the heat in FTX bankruptcy John Ray, the emergency chief executive of FTX, famously described the crypto exchange he took over as a “dumpster fire”....
...Here’s more on Neumann’s campaign for control of WeWork....
...Imaginatively told through the fictionalised personal testimony of von Neumann’s friends and family, the novel is as engrossing as it is disturbing....
...are seeing in south-east Asia at the moment is a reopening bounce coming through: the growth environment is very strong, and that is likely to carry over into the second half of the year,” said Frederic Neumann...
...Elizabeth Holmes, the magnetic founder of the blood-testing company Theranos, is in prison; Adam Neumann, who promised to change the world by spreading good vibrations at WeWork, lost his aura as its value...
...Medical technology company Smith & Nephew has chosen John Rogers to succeed Anne-Françoise Nesmes as chief financial officer. He previously held the same role at WPP....
...It was built in the 1960s, an excellent Soviet version of a German-engineered Neumann U47 or an AKG C12 VR. [Musician/producer] Steve Albini was the first guy to get hip to the Lomo....
...They’ll also be keen to avoid one-to-one photographs with John Lee, the territory’s chief executive who is due to speak at the event....
...But Adam Neumann at WeWork, Elizabeth Holmes at Theranos and now Bankman-Fried at FTX have all tried, and spectacularly failed, to sustain a similar reality-distorting trick....
...The company, co-founded by disastrously charismatic wannabe guru Adam Neumann, appears to be nearing the end of its long, strange trip....
...Andreessen’s portfolio includes the crypto exchange Coinbase, NFT marketplace OpenSea, and Flowcarbon, a crypto carbon credit venture set up by former WeWork chief executive Adam Neumann....
...At the end of the seminar in which Gödel detonated this intellectual bombshell, the great John von Neumann laconically remarked, “it’s all over”....
...John Thornhill comments on the further politicisation and fragmentation of the internet. 2....
...That’s the fate that the God in which he only occasionally believed had in store for John von Neumann, and it made for a brilliant, agonising life....
...He has every faith that the crypto market will recover and has compared Bankman-Fried to John Pierpont Morgan....
...It was bound to end in tears and it did so at Uber, where Benchmark had to plot to defenestrate the wilful co-founder Travis Kalanick, and at WeWork, whose guru-like leader Adam Neumann was brought down...
...“[Start-ups] wanted to disrupt, but have no idea how to disrupt manufacturing technology,” said Karl-Thomas Neumann, a Polestar board member....
...At another tequila-fuelled event, Neumann is said to have sprayed a fire extinguisher over Hony Capital’s John Zhao, one of his investors....
...More recently, the sector has drawn in less experienced domestic players, including Lloyds Banking Group and shopping centre chain John Lewis....
...John McVay, chief executive of Pact, the trade association for production companies, described Channel 4’s remit as Thatcher’s gift to his trade: “She was the mother of the British independent production...
...Likewise, the series WeCrashed, airing now, is based on a Wondery podcast about WeWork co-working impresario Adam Neumann and his wife Rebekah....
...Von Neumann played key roles in developing computer science, quantum mechanics and game theory....
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