Tag: Billion

Until 1999, Marc Benioff had been with Oracle for more than 10 years. He had a lucrative salary and addictive stock options. But since 1996, he wanted to do something of his own. For the last 3 years, he has been thinking about getting out of corporate life. A sabbatical from work...

Initially triggered by ChatGPT, the large model boom is continuing to intensify. Tech giants and star startups are scrambling to contribute models for the competitive and diversified commercial market. Among these models, the LLaMA series has accumulated a vast amount of users and practical applicat...

Learn how we process more than 1 billion events per day: we built our own tool to collect, store, and perform analytic queries with event data. Find out more about the tech behind the tool, and how we’re able to perform at such a high level. When we operate our mech shooter, War Robots,...

In the heart of Dubai, where innovation meets luxury, history has been made once again. The city known for its iconic structures, including the world’s tallest building and vast man-made islands, has unveiled an extraordinary project: the $10 billion Desert Pearl real estate tokenization&...

Incase you’re wondering how San Francisco’s housing crisis is going, there’s a new TV series in which Anthony Mackie travels a post-apocalyptic wasteland and fights a 300-pound killer clown because someone promises him an SF condominium — and this doesn’t feel...

By any measure, Charlie Munger was a rich man. By any measure, Charlie Munger was a wise man. By any measure, Charlie Munger failed to live up to his potential. “Did you hear Charlie Munger died?” “Who is Charlie Munger?” “The American billionaire investor.&rdq...

The InterWork Alliance, an initiative of the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), empowers organizations to adopt and use token-powered services in their day-to-day operations, across use cases and networks, bringing inclusivity to globally distributed applications. Microsoft, Accenture and...

Today I’d like to introduce you to Vuori, a premium performance apparel company rooted in San Diego. It was recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies this past year. What started as a tiny garage business eight years ago in Encinitas, has matured into a 450-person organization...

Apple uses repetition. While repetition looks like you don’t have something else to say in real conversations, it is different in sales conversations. Not like you repeat the same thing the same way. Instead, you repeat the same thing in many different amazing ways. This is especially true ...

Me: “Hey! So what do you do for a living?” Salesforce Friend: “I’m an SFE, a salesforce engineer.” Me: “Oh yeah, you told me that before. Remind me what they do again. Is it like a customer relationship management software?” Salesforce Friend: &ldqu...

Diwali also known as the festival of lights is the biggest festival for Hindu religion. Celebrating Diwali originates from a very ancient epic tale, “Ramayana” which tells the story of Hindu Lord Rama. Lord Rama was born as a prince, son of the eldest queen in the kingdom of Ayodhy...

Somewhere, far away, if you believe what you read, there’s a hole in the Universe. There’s a region of space so large and empty, a billion light-years across, that there’s nothing in it at all. There’s no matter of any type, normal or dark, and no stars, galaxies, plasma, gas...

Salt Lake City, UT — In a groundbreaking move that has sent shockwaves through the biotech industry, 23 & Me, the leading personal genomics and biotechnology company, has officially announced the sale of its entire DNA database to the Chinese government for an astonishing 10 billion d...

After 51 years, the US returned to the Moon this week. Intuitive Machines Inc., the Houston based maker of the Moon lander Odysseus, reported that its vehicle landed on its side after possibly breaking one of its legs upon landing. A solar panel could have been damaged while some antennae ...

Sephora had dozens of prestige brands under one roof for the first time. A 1998 New York Times article called them a “luxury cosmetics general store.” The concept was a big hit in France, where Sephora had 10% of all cosmetic purchases. In America, consumers experienced for the...