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Alex Karp, the Palantir cofounder.

“So how did a daydreaming doctoral student in German philosophy wind up leading a shadowy data analytics firm that has become a major American defense contractor, one that works with spy services as it charts the future of autonomous warfare?”~ […]

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Big shot: David Rubenstein.

“As a co-founder of The Carlyle Group, one of the globe’s top private equity firms, David’s journey from a Baltimore kid with big dreams to a presidential advisor and business mogul is truly inspiring.” ~ learn more

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The many minds of Marvin Minsky.

“Although he sometimes pretended to be a hard-core reductionist, AI visionary Marvin Minsky was actually a scientific romantic, for whom the quest for knowledge mattered more than the knowledge itself.” ~ learn more

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Daniel S. Loeb and Mr. Pink.

“Wherever you come down, Dan Loeb is worthy of study. Over the past 26 years, he has turned $3.3 million in start-up capital into a hedge fund with more than $20 billion. He personally pioneered a new era of activist […]

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The people who ruined the internet.

A reporter for The Verge spends time with the SEO operators who have long worked at squeezing money out of the internet. “I came to understand that, since the dawn of the internet, there have been people attempting to manipulate […]