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If your preferred way of solving big problems requires my money and gives me a board seat on the initiative, I may not encourage solutions involving inheritance taxes or the breakup of companies like the one from which I
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
BILL GATES Cofounder, Microsoft; Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
Koum and Acton had already raised $250,000 in seed funding from a few ex-Yahoo employees, but they saw VC funding as a bailout. Still, Goetz was persistent. He assured the founders that he would act as a strategic advisor, helping them turn WhatsApp into the powerhouse he knew it could be. Eventually, Koum and Acton agreed to take $8 million from S
... See moreAli Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups
Steve LaTourette, a longtime Republican moderate congressman from Ohio who was a close friend of Boehner’s, explained, “In the past, it was rare that someone would run against an incumbent in their own party. But the money that these outside groups have is what gives these people liquid courage to run against an incumbent.” He described the outside
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
George H. W. Bush, a self-identified environmentalist,
Jonathan Safran Foer • We Are the Weather
Robinson Meyer • We’ve Never Seen a Carbon-Removal Plan Like This Before
