Showing posts with label Famous. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous. Show all posts
3. Greg Jensen
Age: 37
Industry: Finance
Jensen's work overseeing research at the world's largest hedge fund (assets under management: $125 billion) has paid off. Bridgewater's flagship fund is up 25%, while many marquee names are losing money. Jensen also oversaw the rollout of the $10 billion fund Pure Alpha Major Markets in June. Jensen, who started at Bridgewater as an intern while at Dartmouth, believes the firm's unusual culture (articulated by founder Ray Dalio in the form of 300 self-help principles) is the key to the firm's success -- and his own.
Black Eyed Peas - $48 million
10. Black Eyed Peas - $48 million
Since crossing over to the mainstream in the early 2000s, the Black Eyed Peas have been everywhere from the Super Bowl pre-game show to discussing politics on CNN. A worldwide tour that took them from Switzerland to Mexico brought in $800,000 a night, while the band’s openness to endorsement deals led them to ink commitments with Target, Honda, Bacardi and Apple...More after the break...
What does it take to become one of the highest-paid musicians of the 2010s? A career that peaked in the 1980s. Nearly half of the artists that make up this year’s list of the top-earning music acts have been around long enough that they could have appeared on the soundtrack to Back to the Future. Here are top ten earning musicians of 2010.
CBI carries out searches in Noida, Delhi in Tatra case
The CBI on Wednesday carried out searches at three locations in Noida and the national capital in connection with its probe into alleged irregularities in the procurement and supply of the Tatra all terrain vehicles to the Army.
Three teams of the agency officials reached residences of two retired army officials and an official of Vectra early on Wednesday morning and took into their possession some crucial documents related to the deal, the CBI sources said.
The CBI has again called BEML Chairman V.R.S. Natarajan and Vectra Chairman Ravinder Rishi for questioning on Wednesdsay, they said. Both were questioned on Tuesday also.
The agency has registered a case naming Mr. Rishi and unnamed officials of the defence ministry, Army and BEML on March 30 for alleged criminal conspiracy, cheating and also under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The agency is probing alleged irregularities in assigning of supply from Czechoslovakia-based Tatra, with which the agreement was originally signed in 1986, to the Tatra-Sipox U.K., owned by Mr. Rishi, in 1997 showing it as an original equipment manufacturer and the fully-owned subsidiary of Czech company, which was against the provisions of Defence Procurement Procedure, the sources said.
“In continuation of the aforesaid conspiracy to cause undue benefit to the U.K.-based company, the unknown officials of the Defence PSU allowed change of currency from U.S. Dollar to Euro and further by not levying the Liquidated damages, thereby causing further loss of Rs. 13.27 crores,” the CBI spokesperson had said.
Microsoft Buys Skype in $8.5 Billion Cash Deal
How Skype fits into the giant that is Microsoft is summed up by CEO Steve Ballmer when he said , "Together we will create the future of real-time communications so people can easily stay connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues anywhere in the world." With the deal, Skype will become a business division within Microsoft and its present CEO Tony Bates will have the title President of the Microsoft Skype Division.
Wedding Pictures of Famous Politicians
Barack Obama
Wedding Pictures of Famous Politicians,06 more images after the break...
40. Katrina Markoff
Age: 38
Industry: Consumer Products
While a student at Le Cordon Bleu in France, Markoff started mixing chocolate with unlikely flavors like curry, taleggio, and wasabi. In 1998 she opened her first store in Chicago, and her combinations caught on; within a year she was in Neiman Marcus. Mail-order and catalogue sales followed; now Vosges is sold in 2,000 stores (including eight of its own boutiques) and has spawned competitors (Godiva is said to have attempted several Vosges-like products), and this year, after multiple requests from Wal-Mart and Target, Markoff launched a lower-priced line for mass merchants.
Favorite gadget: Mortar and pestle.
39. Kevin Systrom
Age: 27
Industry: Technology
Having launched only a year ago, "Instagram" is already part of the general lexicon. The multipurpose app -- it alters photos, organizes them, and enables a wide range of sharing options on its own Twitter-like network -- has quickly amassed 11 million users. By the nine-month point, users had shared 150 million pictures. Systrom co-founded the company with Mike Krieger after he joined Systrom's previous mobile sharing app, Burbn.
Tech in the genes: Systrom's mother worked at Monster.com during the first startup boom, and now she's a category director at Zipcar.
38. Scott Harrison
Age: 36
Industry: Nonprofit
Scott Harrison, a former Manhattan nightclub promoter, has propelled his five-year-old group, Charity:water, into the national spotlight with astonishing speed. In its first year it raised $1 million. This year it is expected to bring in $26 million, for a grand total of $46 million that it says has helped bring clean water to 2 million people in developing countries. With a name-drop from President Obama and 1.4 million Twitter followers, Harrison says the charity's major obstacle now is finding the equipment to dig more wells faster.
37. Tor Myhren
President and chief creative officer, Grey New York Industry: Advertising
In 2006, Myhren hit a career low point when he lost the $300 million Cadillac account for Leo Burnett after an embarrassing Super Bowl spot involving an Escalade as a runway model. But his work had been spotted by Grey Group CEO Jim Heekin, who brought him to New York. Two months later he was in the top creative slot, and Grey began a series of major hits, including E*Trade's dancing baby and Ellen DeGeneres for CoverGirl. Last year Myhren was promoted to president of Grey New York, making him the first-ever creative executive to lead the agency -- and the most powerful person on Madison Avenue under 40.
Best advice: "Don't be afraid to make heroic failures."
36. Dan Yates & Alex Laskey
Age: 34
Laskey: President, co-founder, OpowerAge: 34
Industry: Green
Yates and Laskey want to save the planet. They first met as undergraduates at Harvard and came together in 2007 to launch Opower, a software startup that generates detailed electricity-use reports -- distributed through electric and gas utilities -- to help homeowners reduce energy consumption. So far Yates and Laskey have been handed nearly $70 million in funding from the likes of Accel Partners and Kleiner Perkins, reach 10 million homes, and say they've saved people over $50 million on electricity bills.
iThermostat: Opower just partnered with Honeywell to offer thermostats controlled by mobile devices.
35. Carolyn Everson
Age: 39
Industry: Technology
The sales superstar was handpicked by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg last March after just nine months at the helm of Microsoft's global advertising group. In her new role Everson oversees relationships with Facebook's most important "friends" -- big-name brands like Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble -- and manages more than 300 advertising execs across the globe. While the social-networking site is expected to bring in an estimated $4 billion in advertising revenue this year, Everson's role isn't limited to selling ads. She also helps companies utilize Facebook's platform by adding "like" buttons to their websites and developing a social media strategy.
34. Blake Mycoskie
Age: 35
Industry: Apparel
In 2006, Mycoskie, a serial entrepreneur from Arlington, Texas, was on a trip in South America, where he both witnessed children in poverty and discovered the alpargata, a unique rope-soled shoe worn by Argentine farmers. He returned to the U.S. with a duffel bag full of the shoes and an idea: Toms Shoes would donate a pair of the shoes to a child in need for every pair it sells. Five years later he's sold 2 million pairs through 1,000 stores, including Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus, in 30 countries around the world -- and the shoes have become hipster uniform.
Latest act: A new line of eyewear -- and a bestselling book.
33. Erin Burnett
Age: 35
Industry: Media
There's a reason HBO's Too Big to Fail used repeated clips of Erin Burnett's reporting to create a background narration of Lehman's fall: She is TV's business bard. Market watchers know her from CNBC, but earlier this year she moved to CNN, where she's been given her own primetime news program, Erin Burnett OutFront. She still has her eye on the markets but plans to also cover global stories. "I think America has a higher tolerance for international news than the industry has assumed," she says.
Loss of a mentor: Burnett says her friendship with CNBC co-host Mark Haines, who died this year, was crucial to her growth.
32. John Janick & Mike Caren
Age: 33
Caren: Co-president, Elektra RecordsAge: 34
Industry: Music
Janick has been a tastemaker since high school, when the record label he started, Fueled by Ramen, signed bands like Less Than Jake and Fall Out Boy. It gained acclaim and earned the notice of Atlantic Records, which hired him and urban A&R wizard Mike Caren to bring defunct record label Elektra, shuttered in 2004, back to life for Warner Music Group. With the help of artists like Bruno Mars and Cee Lo Green, both on the verge of being international superstars, they've done it.
First jobs: Janick was a tennis instructor; Caren worked in a baseball card shop.
31. Tony Hsieh & Charles Best (tie)
Age: 38
Industry: Apparel
Hsieh still runs Zappos, but he's attained guru status when it comes to building workplaces: His "Delivering happiness" message is now the basis for a bestselling book and a company that exports his philosophy to giants like P&G and Hasbro.
Latest move: Investing in private jet outfit JetSuite.
Best: Founder, DonorsChoose.org
Age: 36
Industry: Nonprofit
Donations for Best's nonprofit, which raises funds for public school classrooms, are on track for $40 million this school year, nearly double from two years ago, and now total $90 million since 2000. Last year his gift card was among Oprah's "ultimate favorite things."
30. Salman Khan
Age: 35
Industry: Nonprofit
Since we profiled the hedge funder turned online educator a year ago, growth has exploded: 200,000 unique users per month have turned into more than 3 million; people have viewed his virtual tutorials some 70 million times and completed 100 million exercises. His staff has grown to 17, and he's now putting his lessons in brick-and-mortar schools with a pilot program in California, where 50 classrooms are using his platform as their core math curriculum.
Stage star: Khan's 2011 talk and follow-up interview with Bill Gates was one of the most buzzed-about sessions at this year's TED conference.
29. Drew Houston & Arash Ferdowsi
Age: 28
Ferdowsi: Co-founder and CTO, Dropbox
Age: 26
Industry: Technology
Silicon Valley is teeming with startups, but few manage to attract over 25 million users in less than four years, as Houston (an MIT alum) and Ferdowsi (an MIT dropout) have with Dropbox, a service that lets users store and share documents and photos in the cloud. Despite growing competition, Houston and Ferdowsi's college project has been growing like a weed -- 300 million files are saved to Dropbox each day, more than the number of tweets posted to Twitter per day.
Hobbies: Houston was in a '90s cover band in college; Ferdowsi is an avid Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) player.
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