Do you run to your meetings? Why does Box CEO Aaron Levie wear sneakers to work? You know, the whole skinny jacket and red canvas sneaks look? Is he a hipster? Is he flouting convention? Or is the sartorial choice due to the fact that he runs to meetings? Taking a look at the daily ... Read more...
Edison was a businessman of great vision. We’re embarking on a series profiling entrepereneurs throughout history. Last time, it was John Jacob Astor, fur millionaire, and today it’s none other than Thomas Alva Edison, every bit the entrepreneur he was the scientist. Edison amassed a net worth of $12,000,000, which in today’s money would allow ... Read more...
IKEA's founder leads by example. Here’s the third installment of our Historical Entrepreneur series, in which we look a bit beyond the Kalanicks and Spiegels and to the lives of entrepreneurs whose careers have unfolded (mostly) in their entirety. These not be folks who were there to witness the horrors of the Civil War or ... Read more...
If you’ve ever sent yourself an e-mail reminder to wash your car, you’ve used Evernote. If you have a notebook called “soccer” or scan receipts at the gas pump and send them into your computer, you’re using Evernote. Its CEO is Phil Libin, one of the world’s leading Internet company CEOs. Libin was also a ... Read more...
The king of networks speaks. Few people have their fingers on the pulse of current Internet culture as much as Reid Hoffman. In fact, he’s as involved the Internet we know today as any other person. He was a member of the board of directors of PayPal upon its founding and is a co-founder of ... Read more...