KFC thanked the guy that made the discovery by “commissioning a portrait of its founder giving him a piggyback ride through a beautiful woodland landscape.” I’m dead.
Last April, Jack Dorsey donated $1B in Square stock for pandemic relief (28% of his net worth).
After latest $SQ surge, the total value of the relief fund is now at $4.6B!
On the @theallinpod at the time, @chamath and @Jason said Jack making the entire relief fund public on a Google Doc was the “strongest move ever” hahaha
Here’s @jack’s original $1B donation tweet (with the Google Doc link)
Yesterday, Bernard Arnault passed Jeff Bezos to become the world's richest person.
Worth $193B, he has spent ~40 years building luxury giant LVMH. His success is described as a combination of "generational" vision with "Sun-Tzu" business tactics.
Here's the story🧵
1/ Today, the LVMH empire bring in $55B+ a year, employs 160k people and houses 75+ brands:
2/ Arnault’s story begins in 1949, born in Roubaix, France (2hrs from Paris)
His family owned a civil engineering company. After graduating from École Polytechnique (France’s top engineering school), he began work for the family firm.
Lighting the 1992 Olympic flame with an arrow shot is the most baller thing I’ve ever seen
Backstory on archer Antonio Rebollo is insane:
◻️ Had polio at 8 months
◻️ Became archer at 22 (competed in Paralympics)
◻️ Chosen from 200 candidates b/c of his mental fortitude (in case he missed)
◻️ Hit 698 / 700 in practice (2yrs training)