Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchukwu is a serial entrepreneur, author, and business guru who provides advice and strategies on social media and marketing on his YouTube channel. He can be a little rough around the edges, and so what? He talks like a regular guy, until you listen to what he’s saying and realize he’s telling you things that can help you grow your business.
TEDx Talks
TED is dedicated to researching and sharing knowledge through short talks and presentations. Our goal is to inform and educate global audiences in an accessible way. Every talk delivered at a TED event is reviewed by our research, editorial and curatorial teams for publication on TED.com. With TED Talks Daily, find some space in your day to change your perspectives, ignite your curiosity, and learn something new.
TED is an American-Canadian media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan “ideas worth spreading”. TED was conceived by Richard Saul Wurman in 1984 as a conference. As of December 2020 over 3,500 TED Talks are freely available on the website. In June 2011, TED Talks’ combined viewing figure stood at more than 500 million. TED was conceived in 1984 by Harry Marks, who observed a convergence of the fields of technology, entertainment, and design.
The first conference featured demos of the compact disc and one of the first demonstrations of the Apple Macintosh computer. TED2 was held at the Monterey Conference Center in California in 1990. From 1990 onward, a growing community of “TEDsters” gathered annually with Richard Saul Wurman leading the conference. TED is funded by a combination of various revenue streams, including conference attendance fees, foundation support, licensing fees, and book sales. Corporate sponsorships are diverse, provided by companies such as Google, GE, AOL, Goldman Sachs, and The Coca-Cola Company. On July 1, 2019, the TED Conferences LLC was transferred from Sapling Foundation to TED Foundation.
Until 2010, the TED Prize granted three individuals $100,000 and a “wish to change the world”. Since 2010, in a changed selection process, a single winner is chosen. In 2012, the prize was not awarded to an individual, but to a concept connected to the current global phenomenon of increasing urbanization. The sculpture consists of an eight-inch-diameter (20 cm) aluminum sphere levitating above a walnut disc. TED reached its billionth video view on November 13, 2012.
As of October 2020, over 3500 TED talks had been posted online. In January 2009, the then number of videos had been viewed 50 million times. In March 2012, Netflix announced a deal to stream an initial series of TED Talks. TED Translators started as the TED Open Translation Project in May 2009. The OTP used crowd-based subtitling platforms to translate the text of TED and TED-Ed videos, as well as caption and translate videos created in the TEDx program.
By May 2015, more than 70,000 sets of subtitles in 107 languages had been completed by 38,173 volunteer translators. Speakers are not paid and must relinquish the copyrights to their materials, which TED may edit and distribute under a Creative Commons license. As of January 2014, the TEDx archive contained some 30,000 films and presentations from more than 130 countries. TEDx also expanded to include TEDxYouth events, TEDx corporate events, and TEDxWomen.
TED Fellows were introduced in 2007, during the first TEDAfrica conference. Acceptance as a Fellow is not based on academic credentials, but mainly on past and current actions, and plans for the future. For every TED or TEDGlobal conference, 20 Fellows are selected; a total of 40 new Fellows a year. The TED Interview is a weekly podcast launched on October 16, 2018. TEDMED was founded in 1998 by TED’s founder Ricky Wurman.
In 2009, TED.com began including videos of TEDMED talks on the TED website. TEDWomen is a three-day conference with speakers focused on women-oriented themes. TEDYouth talks are aimed at middle school and high school students and feature information from youth innovators. TED was accused of censoring Nick Hanauer’s TED Talk by not posting it on their website. The video of the talk was moved from the TEDx YouTube channel to the TED blog accompanied by the framing language called for by advisors. TED responded by saying accusations of censorship were “simply not true” and that they aimed to instill excitement in the audience.
The Big Short
The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Adam McKay. It is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis. The film stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, with Melissa Leo, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Jeremy Strong, Finn Wittrock, and Marisa Tomei. A critical and commercial success, the film grossed $133 million on a $50 million budget. Jared Vennett (based on Greg Lippmann) is one of the first to understand that subprime loans into collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) will collapse.
His long-term bet, exceeding $1 billion, is accepted by major investment and commercial banks but requires paying substantial monthly premiums. Eventually, the market collapses and his fund’s value increases by 489% with an overall profit of over $2.69 billion, with Lawrence Fields receiving $489 million alone. As the subprime bonds continue to fall, he learns that Morgan Stanley had also taken short positions against mortgage derivatives. Despite pressure from his staff to sell their position before Morgan Stanley collapses, Baum refuses to sell until the economy is on the verge of collapsing, making over $1 billion in their swaps. Geller, Burry and Baum’s $30 million investment turns into $80 million after they learn that the SEC has no regulations to monitor mortgage-backed security activity.
They realize banks and ratings agencies are maintaining the value of their CDOs in order to sell and short them before the inevitable crash. Horrified, they try to tip off the press about the upcoming disaster and the rampant fraud, but a writer from The Wall Street Journal exposes his own personal conflict of interest and will not listen.
Glengarry Glenn Ross
The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen, and their increasing desperation when the corporate office sends a motivational trainer to threaten them. The setting is never explicitly stated, but critics have placed the setting in Chicago. Exterior shots were filmed on location in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. The film was critically acclaimed and is considered one of the best films of 1992. Shelley “The Machine”.
Levene is a once-successful salesman in a long-running slump and with a daughter in the hospital. Richard Roma tries to manipulate a meek, middle-aged man named James Lingk into buying a property. Moss proposes that they strike back by stealing all the Glengarry leads and selling them to a competing agency. Moss’s plan requires Aaronow to break into the office, stage a burglary and steal all of the prime leads. Levene, proud of a massive sale he made that morning, takes the opportunity to mock Williamson in private.
In his zeal to humiliate Williamson, he mentions that Williamson lied about cashing the check. Levene attempts to bribe Williamson with a share of his sales to keep quiet. Williamson coldly responds, “Because I don’t like you”.
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