Category: Cool Leaders
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Welcome to Dollywood
By Erick Moore In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton’s hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend…
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7 Reasons Every iPhone User Should Be Worried About the App Store’s 30% Tax
By Pavel Durov I hope you all liked the latest Telegram update – our 8th major update this year. This new version of Telegram could have become available to you several days earlier. But it didn’t, because of Apple’s desire to control every mobile app in the world. Few iPhone…
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Unleash talent
By Steen Albrechtlund A short tale of medieval virtue ethics or why the Beau Geste doctrine is ever so slightly exhausting. Platons most important scolar, Aristoteles, study of character and ethics, is built around the premise that people should achieve an excellent character as a pre-condition for attaining happiness or…
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What concrete steps we can start working on to improve our products and policies
By Mark Zuckerberg I just shared the following note with our employees, and I want to share it with all of you as well. As we continue to process this difficult moment, I want to acknowledge the real pain expressed by members of our community. I also want to acknowledge…
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We are witnessing the emergence of a new media economy
By Hamish McKenzie In 2010, at 29 years old, I came to the US as a freelance journalist. My previous job had been as a writer for an entertainment magazine in Hong Kong, and I had no connections here. That first year, living in Austin, Texas, I scrapped for stories…
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This is a global crisis and for millions of children the impact will be life long
By Greta Thunberg Very honoured to receive Human Act Award. The prize money – 100 000 USD – will be donated to @unicef . Human Act will match this donation with an additional USD 100,000 for the total sum of USD 200,000. So today we are launching a joint global…
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BIG 3D printing 10,000 face shields a week
By Kai-Uwe Bergmann BIG is now producing 10,000 face shields a week supplying much needed PPE to all our communities where we have offices. This effort spearheaded by BIGster Bernardo Shumacher a month ago has now involved dozens of BIGsters in a 24 hour 7 days a week operation. All…
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A letter from Greta
Greta Thunberg on Facebook: Impostors, trademarks, commercial interests, royalties and foundation… First: Unfortunately there are still people who are trying to impersonate me or falsely claim that they “represent” me in order to communicate with high profile people, politicians, media, artists etc. Please be aware that this is happening and…
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What I hope the world and my life will look in 2030
By Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook: Every new year of the last decade I set a personal challenge. My goal was to grow in new ways outside my day-to-day work running Facebook. These led me to learn Mandarin, code an AI assistant for my home, read more books, run a lot…
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Facebook now have more than 35,000 people working on safety and security
By Mark Zuckerberg We just shared our community update and quarterly results. Here’s what I said on our earnings call. — Before we get started, I want to talk about the announcement we just shared that Sue Desmond-Hellmann is leaving our board to focus on her health and other commitments.…
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