This list of Facebook insiders that sold stock already is kind of interesting. It looks like Zuckerberg even cashed out a few shares for a cool billion and change.
•Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, sold 30.2 million shares for $1.14 billion
• Accel Partners, an early Facebook investor, sold 57.7 million shares for $2.1 billion
• Peter Thiel, a very early Facebook investor, sold 16.8 million shares for $638 million
• DST Global, a Russian investment fund, sold 45.7 million shares for $1.7 billion
• Goldman Sachs, a Facebook investor, sold 24.3 million shares for $923 million
• Elevation Partners, a Facebook investor, sold 4.6 million shares for $175 million
• Greylock Partners, a Facebook investor, sold 7.6 million shares for $289 million
• Mail.ru Group, a Russian Internet company, sold 19.6 million shares for $745 million
• Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, sold 1 million shares for $38 million.
• Meritech Capital sold 7 million shares for $266 million
• Microsoft, a Facebook partner and investor, sold 6.6 million shares for $250 million
• Tiger Global, a hedge fund, sold 19 million shares for $722 million
• Reid Hoffman, a Silicon Valley investor, sold 943,000 shares for $36 million
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After remaining stable for most of human history, the world’s population has exploded over the last two centuries. The boom is not over: The biggest generation in history is just entering its childbearing years. The coming wave will reshape the planet, and the impact will be greatest in the poorest, most unstable countries.
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Distance Plunging
Live Pigeon Shooting
Tug-of-War
Rope Climb
Solo Synchronized Swimming
Croquet
Roque
Dueling Pistols
Horse Long Jump
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“The Starship,” as the former United Airlines Boeing 720 passenger jet was re-dubbed by its owners (Ward Sylvester and pop singer Bobby Sherman) had been modified at the cost of nearly a quarter of a million dollars, with the intention of renting it out to touring super-groups. Swivel chairs, a bar, and a 3/4” Sony U-matic videocassette player and TV were installed (The plane’s library contained films ranging from Deep Throat to the Marx Brothers), and a bedroom, for “privacy” was built into the back of the plane. Shag carpeting, champagne, the Starship had it all, even President Nixon’s Air Force One didn’t compare. There were two stewardesses on the plane and it cost $2500 an hour to run.
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Humans have been marking their skin permanently for thousands of years. A tattoo can be a remembrance, a constant prayer, a warning, or simply an amazing work of art. The reasons behind it can be intensely personal, decorative, whimsical, or utilitarian.
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Nova Cidade de Kilamba, to give it its full name, is no small project – it consists of 750 eight-storey apartment buildings, a dozen schools and more than 100 retail units, and is described by Redver as “the jewel in Angola’s post-war reconstruction crown.” There’s just one problem: barely anybody in Angola can afford to move there.
An estimated two-thirds of Angolans live on less than $2 a day, meaning the apartments at Kilamba, which are priced online at between $120,000 and $200,000, will forever be beyond their means.
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