Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced that he will be stepping down as the CEO ad transitioning into the role of the executive chairman after 27 years at the helm. He will still be Amazon's largest shareholder. He will be handling the day-to-day controls of the company to Andy Jassy, his long-time head of Amazon Web Services, a swiftly growing division that has almost singlehandedly changed the way companies buy the technology that powers their businesses.
With this new development comes a partial end to one of the most epic runs in modern business history. Under Bezos’s stewardship, Amazon evolved…
The show begins with the screeching noise of a car running over a dog and Frank (Kevin Spacey as the protagonist) comes out on the road to see what has happened and finds the dog whimpering and trying to survive. Frank throughout the show is talking to us the viewers, explaining, and telling us how things are and what is going to happen.
In the first scene, he looks at the viewer and says, “There are two kinds of pain. The sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have…
Jimmy Donaldson aka Mr. Beast has cracked the YouTube algorithm and has made his way into the top YouTubers in the world. In January 2018, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as Mr. Beast, had around two million subscribers. At the time of this writing, he has more than 51 million subscribers on his channel. That is what defines the magic of the compound effect.
Jimmy was only 13 years old when he uploaded his first video to YouTube back in February 2012 under the username “MrBeast6000.” For the first few years, MrBeast attempted, unsuccessfully, to master the YouTube algorithm by creating…
Chamath Palihapitiya was born on 3rd September 1976 in Sri Lanka. Chamath had moved to Canada with his family at the young age of six. He later attained a degree in electrical engineering at The University of Waterloo. He had been passionate about wealth from a young age and was always in awe of the Forbes annual list of the richest people in the world and someday yearned to be a part of that group.
Now that he is rich, he wants to use wealth “as a bridge to a more meaningful, long-term, largely unrealistic goal that can keep you…
An essential component of Warren Buffets' investment strategy is what he calls a ‘moat’. In business, a moat refers to the competitive advantage of a company to sustain and protect its long-term profits and market share from competing firms. Like its namesake — a water-filled ditch — Buffett’s moat refers to a defensive barrier, but instead of protecting a castle, it helps prevent a company’s profits from being eroded by competitors.
Buffet’s advice to business managers is to make their moats bigger and wider. …
All entrepreneurs are wired to take on the world themselves and we feel that we don’t need anyone telling us what to do and when to do it. But if you have been struggling for success in your business and need to do something to change your situation then the answer lies in finding someone who has been in your situation and has overcome it and is now successful in their ventures. These people are business coaches who are self-proclaimed experts and can help you get out of any rut in your business.
Sadly, there is no shortage of ingenuine…
Barrack Obama entered US history and the white house as something special, something that hadn’t been seen before in the history of the free world. He was elected not based on his experience, nor for his role as leader of a party or a movement. He had not been a governor or a general. He did not become president by the accident of his predecessor’s death in office.
Obama was elected only on the basis of himself, his exuberant persona, and his message. He showed the people of the United States the true power of justice, cooperation, and equality.
Ever since I started walking, my first goal was to kick a ball. Football had been my passion since the beginning, and I loved the adrenaline rush before every game and the pressure to perform and score goals. Coming from India, football avenues to the rest of the world or mainly Europe are relatively low or non-existent, and to add salt to the wound, my family was not very supportive of my dreams of becoming a professional footballer mainly because they didn’t want me to get hurt if I failed which in hindsight I would have.
My diet had been…
I recently finished reading Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger, this book is his autobiography in which he analyses his journey from being a non-English background Austrian immigrant to becoming the senator of the great state of California.
I loved the book simply because of its raw and unapologetic writing and very relatable examples. He has penned the book very eloquently and dissected all of the main events of his life in great detail and his way of explaining helps you vividly imagine, and I might even say experience what all he has gone through and done.
The best part about…
Two days ago, I came across a surprising article that really aroused my curiosity. I was reading about how Facebook is developing a cryptocurrency system called Libra that has the potential to replace physical currency as we know it.
In this article, I want to answer two questions.
What is Libra and why should you know about it?
Libra is a cryptocurrency that allows you to buy things or send people money with nearly zero fees. …