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Morgan family sells control to venture capitalist group
2019-03-05 17:36:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The iconic British sports car maker Morgan is to be sold to an Italian venture capital group
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Next Time Stand Up & Say: I am the CEO, Bitch: Prominent Venture Capitalist Sticks Out Neck & Takes on Silicon Valleys Shortage of Women and Minorities
2016-05-07 01:07:51| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Situation: Silicon Valleys VC white males & are getting increasing heat about the fact that less than 10% of senior management are women. Most prominent VC investor, Chamath Palihapitiya, is shaming SV companies to do as his company, Social Capital, is doing. Has surveyed 71 companies and his company is #1 in diversity ranking. Significance: Workplace diversity has apparently not been a priority among VC firms in Silicon Valley Social Capital is out to solve and fix global problems and issues Chamath has shook up and polarized SV establishment; Calling then Soulless Milquetoast 91.8% of SV VC management is male. Go get the complete Wall Street Journal story The Article Next Time Stand Up & Say: I am the CEO, Bitch: Prominent Venture Capitalist Sticks Out Neck & Takes on Silicon Valleys Shortage of Women and Minorities appeared first on Automotive Digest.
[Video] Engineer, venture capitalist, and entrepreneur Floyd Kvamme in conversation with @HsuUntied
2015-09-23 11:23:12| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Today, my special guest is Floyd Kvamme, a legendary Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. After joining Fairchild Semiconductor with a masters degree in electrical engineering, he was part of the founding team which started National Semiconductor in 1967.
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Lock screen ads on Windows 10 bring us closer to a nightmarish capitalist dystopia
2015-04-30 18:30:58| Extremetech
At its Build conference earlier this week, Microsoft revealed a brand new lock screen for Windows 10 -- opening up PCs to the hellscape of ads that is the Xbox user interface in the process.
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VIDEO: North Korea's capitalist streak
2015-04-03 04:34:39| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
North Korea, one of the most unlikely capitalist countries in the world, has a surprising number of modern businesses.
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