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Flirt140
Meet Your Mate in 140 Characters or Less
FuckedCompany creator Philip "Pud" Kaplan will soon be a married man. So why did he just unveil Flirt140, the world's most awesome online flirting site? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Ladies and Gentlemen-Mr. Burt Bacharach: This thing is like date rape/ a hate crime waiting to happen... 5 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Love in the Age of SMS
Things were simpler when the only medium for asking someone out was the telephone. Text messaging, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have complicated romance, if not ruined it, the Washington Post reports. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by serpentinefire: I don't know if this is related, but facebook (along with deeply embedded emotional and abandonment issues) makes it really... 12 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Money Can't Buy Elon Musk Love
Why has Justine Musk, the estranged wife of the CEO of Tesla Motors, spoken out about their divorce and his new fiancée? It might have something to do with money, and Elon Musk's lack thereof. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by 1Melanie: First of all, Elon is not broke. Second of all, he is making a big mistake by marrying this girl (not... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Wikia Search
Jimmy Wales Definitely Not Getting His Wikipedia Jet Now
Did you know the founder of Wikipedia had a search engine? By the numbers, it's unlikely, since Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales's would-be Google killer, only attracted 10,000 users a month. He's now closing it. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by The Boulevard of Broken Queens: cashfan (can I say 'first to say cashfan'? is that meta enough not to be tacky?) 2 Responses | Other threads
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wedding announcements
Netscape Billionaire to Wed Supermodel This Weekend
Giving geeks everywhere hope, Jim Clark, cofounder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, is marrying swimsuit model Kristy Hinze this weekend on Richard Branson's Necker Island — also the site of Google founder Larry Page's nuptials.
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By Owen ThomasComment by aurora*raby: Jim Clark isn't bad-looking. Also, he's rich, and I can't blame him for not marrying an older, set-in-her-ways, ugly person.... 16 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Failed CEO Dick Hardt Takes His Name Too Literally
Our old friend Dick Hardt, the Vancouver-based entrepreneur whose last startup flamed out and drew a lawsuit by investors, has resurfaced at Microsoft. And, according to photos he just posted, he has nothing to hide. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dick Hardt: These photos were shared only to my friends on Facebook. They were NOT public (at least that was the setting... 12 Responses | Other threads
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mark zuckerberg
Oprah Pal Plays Yenta with Facebook CEO
How much coffee did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg drink before going on Oprah? We've never seen the 24-year-old Harvard dropout talk this fast. Instead of nervous pauses, he filled the air with spew. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by lobstr: he looks like he'd fucking suck to date... he's so fucking nerdy smug and not in a cool emo way,... 6 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Breaking Up with Julia Allison Is a Good Way to Make Money
Pranky videogame designer Charles Forman has scored another $5 million for his startup, OMGpop. We're beginning to see a pattern here! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Aaron Altman: OMG, can JA date the USA???!!! 5 Responses | Other threads
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jackpot
The Home That Google Built
Twitter CEO Ev Williams and his wife, Sara Morishige, are building a house. What took so long? San Francisco's most disorganized Internet boss dude has been rich since 2003, after he sold Blogger to Google. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by GrumpyMcGillicutty: Evan Williams is a tool. This article has given me hope. Obviously with enough money, anybody can find themselves a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
'Lily' Wants $3 Million for Tales of Dating Tesla CEO
Sunny Huang, a California woman who goes by "Asian Beauty Lily" online, wants $3 million for the story of her "glamorous and loving relationship" with Elon Musk, the CEO of troubled electric automaker Tesla Motors. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Weegee's bored: A woman nobody heard of wants $3 for writing about her affair with a guy nobody ever heard of? How... 5 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Twosome Try for Google-New York Times Merger
Who's dating Chinese-food obsessive New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee? We hear the eclectic reporter has gotten herself a Googler boyfriend. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by resipsaloquacious: As long as you are going to critique his appearance, it is only fair to mention that she is no... 5 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Another closeup of Google executive Marissa Mayer's non-grotesque engagement ring!
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geek love
Bachelors of Silicon Valley Remind Ladies What They're Not Missing
The Nob Hill Gazette, a San Francisco "society" publication, has come up with a list of area eligibles, including a wife beater and more than one gay man. Hard to be a straight woman here! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Pope John Peeps II: You know Owen, Brazilian Jiujitsu is a widely recognized and very popular sport. So it doesn't actually need "Quotation marks"... 5 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Marissa Mayer Rocks Her Ring on the Today Show
A sharp-eyed tipster caught an addition to Google executive Marissa Mayer's wardrobe for Tuesday's Today Show appearance: an engagement ring. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by siliconvalleydropout: image of her ring = failed 1 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Sexagenarian's Big Fat Geek Wedding
We hear Jim Clark, the billionaire Netscape founder, may marry his fiancée, Australian swimsuit model Kristy Hinze, in March on Richard Branson's Necker Island — the same place where Google's Larry Page said "I do." More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by siliconvalleydropout: why the need to get married by rich guys always puzzle me . he can still bang her without marriage. 2 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
Shira Lazar, Kevin Rose's Latest Fling
Having famously "plowed through" San Francisco's eligible bachelorettes, Digg founder Kevin Rose went L.A. for his most recent paramour, Shira Lazar. Who is this Web-video wannabe with links to Dov Charney and Julia Allison? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by LilyBartleby: She's an upgrade from his previous paramour, Roseys Palm. 9 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Google Billionaire Ex-Wife's Revenge Wedding
What did the ex-wife of Google executive Omid Kordestani (net worth: $2.2 billion) do after getting dumped for a younger woman? She hooked up with a doctor and hired Julio Iglesias as her wedding singer. More » -
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Digg Founder Wants to Date Jennifer Aniston
Kevin Rose, the boyish founder of Digg, a testosterone-soaked news-discussion site, has resolved to "date someone seriously" in 2009. Specifically, he plans to woo Marley & Me star Jennifer Aniston.
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By Owen ThomasComment by The Boulevard of Broken Queens: why not? she is lonely and desperate, apparently 9 Responses | Other threads
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craig newmark
Craigslist founder uses ink and paper to find glasses
Craig Newmark, the hypernerdy classifieds-site operator who's destroying the newspaper industry, has found the limits of Craigslist. After repeated appeals online, he's taken to looking for a pair of lost glasses using old media.
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By Owen ThomasComment by MrDo: what kind of moron carries their passport around with them? 2 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Google exec Marissa Mayer engaged
It's Silicon Valley's fairytale romance: Girly-girl nerd worth hundreds of millions meets fellow with a job who looks good in a tux. And now Marissa Mayer and Zack Bogue are getting married, a tipster says.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Ted Dziuba: How much will Gawker pay for a copy of the prenup? 3 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
FuckedCompany founder to marry outside tech tribe
In the self-involved world of Silicon Valley, finding a suitable mate outside the industry is inconceivable. Dating at work is par for the course. So congratulations are due to Philip Kaplan and his new fiancée for defying local convention.
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By Owen ThomasComment by MagBas: WHO CARES! THAT MORONS 15 MINS OF SEMI-FAME EXPIRED ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO. NO WONDER VALLEYWAG GOT GUTTED IF THIS IS... 7 Responses | Other threads
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kate bohner
Google CEO's unemployed girlfriend
What's the use of dating a megabillionaire if he can't throw some bucks your way? Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who's been seeing video producer Kate Bohner since last fall, hasn't come through with funding for her documentary production firm, so she's out of a job.
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By Owen ThomasComment by giddieup: why does she look like a retired pr0n star 6 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Bill Gates in Sweden for dirty old man Simonyi's wedding
Microsoft billionaire Charles Simonyi sure likes to live large. He's a space tourist! He dates Martha Stewart! No wait, 60-year-old Simonyi is now marrying 28-year-old Swedish socialite Lisa Persdotter! Let me guess: You don't want a photo of him. You want a photo of her. Here you go... More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by giddieup: 5 letters comes to mind..... skank 3 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Tesla chief's actress girlfriend into his "physics"
The liquored-up consensus at San Francisco watering hole Joey & Eddie's last night: Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is actually kind of hot. Musk, who drove up in one of his electric car startup's Roadsters to speak to me yesterday, is divorcing sci-fi novelist wife Justine and has taken up with a British actress, Talulah Riley, whom he squired to a party earlier this year at Tesla's Silicon Valley showroom. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by nobuggin: "She is not blonde, and I do find this refreshing." in other words, the drapes match the curtains. 3 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
VentureBeat blogger writes about girlfriend's company
Leah Culver, the ever-romantic founder of file-sharing site Pownce, does not think anything should keep two lovers apart, least of all work. True! And if she wants to date MG Siegler, the handsome VentureBeat blogger, more power to her. Brian Solis's lens captured the two sticking quite close to each other at a party for MySpace Music last night. But shouldn't Siegler, rather than Valleywag, disclose the relationship to his readers before he writes flatteringly about Pownce and quotes Culver in an article? (Photo by Brian Solis/Bub.blicio.us)
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By Owen ThomasComment by Figaro: What is she doing? IS she trying to fuck her way to the bottom? At least in the past she... 2 Responses | Other threads
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celebritards
Tila Tequila switches from Yahoo spawn to Mac guy
Promiscuous MySpace friender Tila Tequila recently denied reports that her relationship with Courtenay Semel, the publicly drunken daughter of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, was on the rocks. But The Superficial says the Hollywood Z-lister's shot at girl-on-girl love has ended. Why does she no longer Yahoo? More »
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Comment by TheronNaso: Looks like the Mac's long history of avoiding mainstream viruses has come to an end. 4 Responses | Other threads
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facebook
Microsoft's Facebook millions paid back with Google election map
What does $240 million get you these days? That's what Microsoft invested in Facebook, but the software giant hasn't gotten much love in return. On election night, whose online maps did Facebook use? Google's. More » -
geek love
Tony Fadell's wife leaves Apple, too
A tender postscript at the bottom of a New York Times article about iPod creator Tony Fadell's departure from Apple: His wife, Danielle Lambert, who works as a VP of human resources at the company, is leaving, too. A good thing: If she had stayed at Apple, the line that Fadell was leaving to spend more time with his family might not have run true.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Figaro: What's the story behind their leaving?!??! more » | Other threads
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rumormonger
Washed-up Hollywood star going to wrong parties
Blind items are the gossip world's equivalent of the mathematical puzzles that keep engineers entertained. Try your hand! They're easier than a Rubik's Cube. CNET News reporter Caroline McCarthy has posed the following one: More » -
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Jim Clark's new wife puts "sex" back in "sexagenarian"
Gazillionaire Netscape founder Jim Clark is getting married for a fourth time — and the bride wore very little. Her name is Kristy Hinze, an Australian swimsuit model who has been dating Clark for some time. Hinze is 28, Clark is 64. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by I like Bristol Cities: She's like a good-looking Richard "Aphex Twin" James! C'mon though, who wouldn't buy a spouse like that if money were no... 1 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Bram Cohen's wife comes to his defense
BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen, whose sideline career is in writing horrifyingly violent fiction, approached me at a charity event Tuesday to discuss Valleywag's recent posts about him. I'll give him credit: He's as unapologetic about writing lines like "I don't like fucking bitches like you so don't count on not getting seriously hurt" as I am in criticizing him for them. In Valleywag's comments, Jenna Cohen, Bram's wife, has posted a defense. She says Cohen "has never used" Asperger's syndrome as an excuse. But she does have an interesting explanation for Cohen's stories of torture and rape: They're a turn-on. For her, too. She suggests they were his "porn collection." Here's the full comment: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by UlanLelex: Last note from Jenna: So Bram will be horrified that I bothered to comment at all.. Especially here. He just laughs... 4 Responses | Other threads
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facebook
Valley's dirty old man beats New York's dirty old man
Stewart Alsop, the goofy San Francisco-based venture capitalist, has this in common with Nouriel Roubini, the louche New York University professor known as "Dr. Doom" for his timely predictions of the current market collapse: Both are Facebook stalkers, aggressive in their requesting of friendship from attractive young women. But Alsop has one key difference: He's utterly shameless about it. Roubini was spurred into late-night Hitlerian name-calling by Gawker's reporting on his Facebook habits. We've sometimes felt the urge to hire a bodyguard for CNET video personality Natali Del Conte when she and Alsop attended the same party. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Patricia2: He's VC now? wasn't he a journalist a minute ago? 2 Responses | Other threads
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party report
Stewart Alsop's sausagefest
No one quite understood why venture capitalist Stewart Alsop was handing out salamis at Alsop Louie Partners' annual party at Tres Agaves Tuesday night. Power investors in the crowd: Ann Winblad and Ron Conway. The boring business gossip: Sequoia's funereal presentation to entrepreneurs on the coming financial apocalypse. The more interesting personal gossip: Alsop is dating Robin Wolaner, the founder of Parenting magazine — see, everyone's a founder of something in the Valley! — and the author of CEO confessional Naked in the Boardroom. (Since I first wrote this post, Wolaner emailed me to mention that she's also, much more recently, the founder of TeeBeeDee, a social networking website.) More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Uncle-Sam's Littlle Helper: I am hungry *drool* 1 Responses | Other threads
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Dave and Brittany
Valley's cutest couple ever creates cutest video ever
Holy frack. Is there any couple more adorable than Facebook platform director Dave Morin and his lady love, evangelicious Google Maps marketer Brittany Bohnet? Their employers may be rivals for developers' affections, but this lip-sync video of "All My Life," created on a road-trip through Cyprus, has no competition for the remaining drips of sentiment in my sappy little heart. Will you two crazy kids quit your dead-end jobs and start a company devoted to, I don't know, being the winsomest thing in the world? I'd invest in preferred shares of teary-cheeked admiration, at a valuation of 15 billion awwwws.
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By Owen ThomasComment by lastweeksdate: you think they'd be interested in a threesome? 2 Responses | Other threads
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conflicts of interest
Michael Arrington wants you to read about MySpace Music, not his love life
If you didn't believe our report that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is in bed with MySpace's top flack, Dani Dudeck, read the obsessive startup blogger's latest story on MySpace Music, which claims that MySpace has "streamed" 1 billion songs. Considering that most MySpace profiles are set to start playing a song, whether you like it or not, as soon as you visit them, that's not that impressive. Arrington leads his story by comparing MySpace streams to iTunes sales, and then acknowledges it's not a "fair comparison." His readers, in the comments, went much further, citing our report and questioning whether the affair with Dudeck clouded Arrington's judgment. Those comments have been — what's the word? — unpublished.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Rachel Marsden: Is his girlfriend beating him up, or does he always have 2 black eyes? 3 Responses | Other threads
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the sum of all human knowledge
Jimmy Wales gets a German prize
On Friday, the cofounder of the world's most comprehensive directory of socialites, Jimmy Wales, was one of the recipients of the $138,000 Quadriga prize for philanthropy in Berlin. Wales is a committed follower of Ayn Rand, the founder of Objectivism and noted loather of altruism — but he got handsomely paid for his do-gooding, so it must be okay! And that's not the only way Wales was rewarded in Berlin. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Rachel Marsden: @godospoons - The "racy pictures" are of Weckerle kissing some other chick full-on. They've made the rounds, and Weckerle is... 8 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
HotOrNot founder James Hong engaged
James Hong, who recently sold rating-and-dating site HotOrNot, has announced his engagement to girlfriend Julia Zhang. I wondered if he'd dropped down on one knee at Max Levchin's wedding over the weekend, where he served as best man, but Hong tells me he popped the question a few weeks ago. Hong also celebrated his 35th birthday earlier this week. I guess this settles the question, James: Definitely hot. -
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Martha Stewart's Microsoft-billionaire ex-boyfriend to go back into space
Charles Simonyi, the Microsoft billionaire who paid $25 million for a 13-day stay on the International Space Station in April 2007, plans to return on another Russian rocket in 2009, says Virginia-based Space Adventures, which didn't say how much he was spending this time. Simonyi, who made his money helping Microsoft develop Excel as well as word, had been dating Martha Stewart for 15 years before they broke up in February; he's now engaged to Lisa Persdotter, a 28-year-old Swede, according to reports. Is she more tolerant of his rocketing career?
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Comment by michaellamb: nope, lisa will do risque sexy times in bed b/c she isn't indepenently wealthy and doesn't want to lose her... more » | Other threads
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conflicts of interest
Michael Arrington's MySpace Music review, the 100-word version
We know what TechCrunch's Michael Arrington got out of sleeping with MySpace PR executive Dani Dudeck: Screenshots of MySpace Music before the service launched. But what was Dudeck's quid to Arrington's quo? To find that, it's worth examining all the nice things Arrington has posted about her employer over the past couple of months. More »
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Comment by kimbjo: sounds fishy. i don't believe he'd be smart enough to keep his mouth shut long enough to get some nookie.... more » | Other threads
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geek love
The bromance of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
Like any good ro-man-on-man-tic comedy, before Bill Gates and Warren Buffett had their first encounter at Gates's parents' home in 1991, they didn't want to meet each other. Says Buffett: "While we're driving down there, I said, 'What the hell are we going to spend all day doing with these people? How long do we have to stay to be polite?" Says Gates: "I told my mom, 'I don't know about a guy who just invests money and picks stocks. I don't have many good questions for him; that's not my thing, Mom." Both showed up at the appointed time anyway — Buffett in a economy-sized car, Gates in a helicopter. It was love at first bluster, according to the Financial Times. More »
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Comment by Elizabeth Mohr: MacBeach, Why does it bother you so much that others succeed in what they pursue? If only YOU had thought... more » | Other threads
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