blake schmidt
@BlakeSchmidt
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Reporter for @business in NYC. Recently a @Bagehots fellow. Previously Hong Kong, São Paulo, Central America.
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Joined February 2009
"There doesn’t seem to be anyone or anything at either company that can keep Mr. Murdoch from doing what he wants. That fact was less of an issue when he started Fox News nearly 30 years ago. But it’s clearly a problem now," writes @WilliamCohan.
nytimes.com
Why nobody can rein in the increasingly erratic patriarch of the Fox Corporation.
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Sequoia Splits Into Three Entities, Makes China Standalone Firm
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Venture capital powerhouse Sequoia Capital is breaking up into three entities around the world, splitting the Chinese and US operations as tensions grow between the world’s two largest economies.
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Ukraine has become a proving ground for US startups looking to showcase their latest technologies
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The country has become a proving ground for startups looking to showcase their latest technologies.
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Watch Starship’s first integrated flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK
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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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He was 18 when he started going on calls with Las Vegas's SWAT Team. Now 23, he leads Brinc Drones, which makes a SWAT drone that can ram through glass or drop cigarettes & lighter to a suspect. @BlakeSchmidt via @wealth
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Thiel fellow Blake Resnick is attempting to corner the niche of public safety drones with his company Brinc.
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In new documents this morning, Sam Bankman-Fried charged with trying to pay a $40 million bribe to a Chinese government official. Happy Tuesday!
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Succession: for Latin American dynasties, it will be easier said than done. For this story, I spoke to some heirs, including one from Mexico's Coppel family of Sinaloa.
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Heirs are looking to branch out in a region where family-owned firms account for three-quarters of companies worth $1 billion or more.
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Mario Lopez Estrada, Guatemala’s first billionaire who made a fortune from telecoms, has died. His largely self-made wealth was an exception in a region where it's mostly inherited.
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Mario Lopez Estrada, Guatemala’s first billionaire, has died. He was 84.
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Grammarly appoints Rahul Roy-Chowdhury as CEO, starting May 1, replacing Brad Hoover; Roy-Chowdhury was previously Grammarly's global head of product (@blakeschmidt / Bloomberg) https://t.co/Oz2J2m24iY
https://t.co/xxTt3gnvWh
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Blake Schmidt / Bloomberg: Grammarly appoints Global Head of Product Rahul Roy-Chowdhury as its CEO, starting on May 1, replacing Brad Hoover, who will stay on as a board member
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Thomas Tull made his fortune producing films, but he was always more interested in the AI revolution than in becoming a Hollywood insider.
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Thomas Tull made a fortune selling his film company to a Chinese conglomerate, but he was always more interested in the AI revolution than in becoming a Hollywood insider.
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A Chinese billionaire arrested in NYC used money from members of his exclusive club to buy a 50,000-square-foot mansion in New Jersey, prosecutors say.
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Prosecutors say Guo Wengui used funds raised from members of his exclusive concierge club to buy a 50,000-square-foot mansion in New Jersey.
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For anyone who has spent time looking into Guo Wengui, the first line of the indictment sums up the wheels-within-wheels quality just about perfectly: “HO WAN KWOK, a/k/a "*Miles Guo," a/k/a *Miles Kwok," a/k/a "Guo Wengui," a/k/a "Brother Seven," a/k/a"The Principal”
The Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui has been charged with fraud in New York. Revisit @eosnos on how the scandal-ridden tycoon ended up among the Trumpists.
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Brazilian environmental agents were met with gunfire, and the shooters escaped into the rainforest. They left an increasingly familiar find for authorities: Starlink internet units. It’s a new, valuable tool for illegal miners. 📝Fabiano Maisonnave https://t.co/fSwtQ7a2mH
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Many billionaires have been pouring money into the space race, but this one forged a fortune in the commercial space industry. He's a big customer of SpaceX through two of his hi-tech startups. https://t.co/doEvCRMeej
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Serial entrepreneur Kam Ghaffarian’s net worth has jumped to $3.8 billion as shares of Intuitive Machines have seesawed since its debut last week.
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Before the spy balloon, Texas lawmakers raced to clamp down on a Chinese billionaire's farmland over national security concerns
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Sun Guangxin’s connections with the Chinese state have helped spark a nationwide movement to restrict ownership of farmland by foreign entities.
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BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in The Bahamas, the nation's Attorney General announced Monday. @nikhileshde reports https://t.co/gLhkSwVh0a
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The Royal Bahamas Police Force arrested FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, a press statement said.
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New @BW cover story: At least 15 children died trying an online dare last year. Most saw it on TikTok. The world's most popular app knows it can do more to protect kids. So why isn't it? https://t.co/D8EOfIbxFJ
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Children are dying from the blackout challenge. Why isn’t the world’s most popular app doing more to protect them?
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This couple is writing the playbook on how to move a big fortune out of China https://t.co/V7lSxJRw7L
#RealEstate #NewYork #NYC #China
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Soho China’s founders shifted much of their fortune out of the country before controls tightened and the market imploded.
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Eric Schmidt's recommendations for countering China? "Regulatory scrutiny, encouraging more private investment and offering tax credits to train workers." Story via @BlakeSchmidt
https://t.co/9wkArzoxMk
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Eric Schmidt’s philanthropic arm has some recommendations on how Washington could reshape its policies.
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