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...“The Four Seasons in Riyadh is basically Palo Alto,” said a partner at one large Silicon Valley venture fund. That willingness to do business in the region has led to some criticism....
...All of these companies have underperformed the FTSE 100 index. Size is one reason. Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster....
...Anduril decided to locate its headquarters hundreds of miles south of Silicon Valley in 2017; in 2020 Palantir packed up its Palo Alto offices and relocated to Denver, Colorado....
...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...Nonetheless, Mohamed argues that Tropical Modernism is a part of the story of African architecture that shouldn’t be neglected....
...me in 2018, since when their glorious Garnachas have risen to Spanish royalty, alongside Vega Sicilia et al....
...When the FT visited Ng’s Palo Alto offices, he pulled out a laptop and turned off its WiFi to demonstrate how an open-source large language model (LLM) from French AI start-up Mistral can run without needing...
...Well, Robert, I'm glad you asked me that because the Labour party under Starmer with its ruthless dragging back to the centre, it's ruthless expulsion of the hard left, silencing of the Corbynites, et cetera...
...“I would not be here, 50 years on, still doing this, if I didn’t think the work was extremely important and valuable.” She concludes: “I’m not doing this for my mother. I’m doing it for the world.”...
...But the kingdom isn’t done flexing its financial athleticism....
...As a partner at one Silicon Valley venture fund put it: “The Four Seasons in Riyadh is basically Palo Alto.”...
...I recently heard from the author Julie Lythcott-Haims, newly elected to Palo Alto’s city council. ChatGPT wrote a story about her victory. “It got so much right and was well written,” she told me....
...When he asked her out to dinner in Palo Alto, she turned him down. After getting her law degree, Gold specialised in the highly paid field of emergency medicine. Which was gruelling....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...I was driving home from Palo Alto to San Francisco, a journey I’d done dozens upon dozens of times before. Only this time, I faced a problem: a phone without power; a journey without GPS....
...Today, the business is run by Assadi’s daughter, Morvarid Mossavar (known as Momo), from a 170sq m warehouse about 20 miles south of San Francisco in the city of San Carlos....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...He says he started thinking, “It’s a beautiful concept, but I’m not sure it can work. They don’t have layers of polished processes and systems. They don’t have rows of super-capable people.”...
...“A bit of Starling was built out there,” she says, pointing to the pavement terrace. Primrose Hill is hardly Palo Alto, or even Shoreditch, but the playbook is similar....
...But there’s something else he said that day that probably does more to explain the endurance of Benzema et al today....
...What we don’t know is who he was. That’s appropriate for Bolzano — an eternal border city that you can’t quite place....
...I could go on, but suffice to say that this is the best piece of art imitating life that I’ve read in some time. Eggers so has Palo Alto’s number....
...Chamath-starved readers needn’t wait any longer: DD’s Miles Kruppa caught up with the “king of Spacs” himself during a sit-down lunch at Social Capital’s Palo Alto headquarters....
...This take is less Sex and the City-style outrageous fabulosity, however, and more in line with the minimal, monochrome simplicity and silhouettes of Yohji Yamamoto, Helmut Lang et al....
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
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