1. The Intelligent Investor, The Definitive Book on Value Investing (2006) Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig 2. The Little Book of Common Sense Investing Bogle, John C Wiley (2017) 3. The Essays of Warren Buffett. Lessons for Corporate America. Lawrence A. Cunningham 3rd Edition (2013) 4. Rich Dad Poor Dad What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not Robert T. Kiyosaki 20177 Must-Read Books for a Millionaire Retirement
1. "The Psychology of Money" by Morgan Housel This isn't your traditional finance book. Housel focuses on the emotional and psychological aspects of money, shedding light on how our perceptions shape our financial decisions. By understanding and mastering our emotional triggers, we can make better-informed decisions that lead to wealth. 2. "Learn To Earn" by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild A comprehensive beginner's guide to investing. Lynch, one of the investment world's luminaries, and Rothchild simplify the maze of the stock market. Their approach underlines the importance of thorough research, understanding businesses at a granular level, and maintaining a long-term perspective in investments. 3. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" by Robert T. Kiyosaki Kiyosaki's seminal work is a game-changer in personal finance literature. Through contrasting tales of his "two dads", he highlights the mindset that distinguishes the wealthy from the rest. Central to his philosophy is the emphasis on financial literacy, the power of assets, and the potential of entrepreneurial ventures. 4. "The Most Important Thing" by Howard Marks Marks, an investment titan, shares wisdom from his illustrious career. He delves into understanding market rhythms, the nuances of risk, and the investor's psyche. Advocating a contrarian viewpoint, he stresses the virtues of patience and discernment in successful investing. 5. "Total Money Makeover" by Dave Ramsey A financial reboot manual. Ramsey meticulously outlines a plan designed to clear debt, build a safety net, and initiate investments. His methodology, rooted in personal responsibility and stringent discipline, offers a clear roadmap to financial rejuvenation. 6. "The Millionaire Fastlane" by MJ DeMarco Challenging mainstream notions of wealth-building, DeMarco proposes a radical approach. He underscores that the quickest path to affluence isn't a traditional job but through entrepreneurial ventures that can scale. The book is a clarion call to value time and harness business systems for wealth and autonomy. 7. "The Rules of Wealth" by Richard Templar A holistic guide to amassing wealth. Templar delineates a set of rules, covering a spectrum from foundational money beliefs to intricate investment strategies. He accentuates the pillars of consistency, unwavering discipline, and the quest for knowledge in one's wealth-building journey.
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1. JavaScript: The Good Parts Douglas Crockford, 2008 2. A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript Mark Myers, 2014 3. JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development Jon Duckett, 2013 4. Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript David Herman, 2012 5. You Don't Know JS: Scope & Closures Kyle Simpson, 2014 6. Eloquent JavaScript, 3rd Edition: A Modern Introduction to Programming Marijn Haverbeke, 2018 7. Head First JavaScript Programming: A Brain-Friendly Guide Elisabeth Robson, 2014 8. Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming Marijn Haverbeke, 2011 9. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John Resig, 2008 10. Learn JavaScript Visually: With Interactive Exercises Ivelin Demirov, 2014 11. The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript Nicholas C. Zakas, 2014 12. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Master the World's Most-Used Programming Language David Flanagan, 2002 13. Javascript: The Definitive Guide, 5th edition David Flanagan, 2006 14. Beginning JavaScript Paul Wilton, 2000 15. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers Nicholas C. Zakas, 2005 16. Programming JavaScript Applications: Robust Web Architecture with Node, HTML5, and Modern JS Libraries Eric Elliott, 2014 17. Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers Axel Rauschmayer, 2014 18. JavaScript Patterns Stoyan Stefanov, 2010 19. You Don't Know JS Yet: Get Started Kyle Simpson, 2020 20. JavaScript for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming Nick Morgan, 2014 21. Learning JavaScript Design Patterns Addy Osmani, 2012 22. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide David Flanagan, 1996 23. You Don't Know JS: ES6 & Beyond Kyle Simpson, 2015 24. JavaScript Enlightenment Cody Lindley, 2012 25. Eloquent Javascript: A Modern Introduction to Programming Marijn Haverbeke, 2011 26. JavaScript from Beginner to Professional: Learn JavaScript Quickly by Building Fun, Interactive, and Dynamic Web Apps, Games, and Pages Rob Percival, 2021 27. Node.js in Action Marc Harter, 2011 28. Coding with JavaScript For Dummies Eva Holland, 2015 29. JavaScript Cookbook Shelley Powers, 2010 30. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers Matt Frisbie, 2019 31. Learn JavaScript Quickly: A Complete Beginner's Guide to Learning JavaScript, Even If You're New to Programming Code Quickly, 2020 32. Understanding ECMAScript 6: The Definitive Guide for JavaScript Developers Nicholas C. Zakas, 2016 33. JavaScript: The Missing Manual David Sawyer McFarland, 2008 34. Maintainable JavaScript Nicholas C. Zakas, 2012 35. High Performance JavaScript Nicholas C. Zakas, 2010 36. Pro JavaScript Design Patterns Ross Harmes, 2007 37. JavaScript For Kids For Dummies Eva Holland, 2015 38. JavaScript for Impatient Programmers Axel Rauschmayer, 2019 39. Up & Going Kyle Simpson, 2015 40. Node.js Design Patterns - Third Edition: Design and Implement Production-grade Node.js Applications Using Proven Patterns and Techniques Mario Casciaro, 2020 41. You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar Kyle Simpson, 2015 42. jQuery in Action Bear Bibeault, 2008 43. Javascript: This Book Includes : Javascript Basics For Beginners + Javascript Front End Programming + Javascript Back End Programming Andy Vickler, 2021 44. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Gerald Jay Sussman, 1985 45. Learning Web Design Jennifer Niederst Robbins, 2012 46. Object-Oriented JavaScript Kumar Chetan Sharma, 2013 47. Beginning JavaScript and CSS Development with JQuery Richard York, 2009 48. Test-Driven JavaScript Development Christian Johansen, 2011 49. Effective TypeScript: 62 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript Dan Vanderkam, 2019 50. The Road to Learn React: Your Journey to Master Plain Yet Pragmatic React. Js Robin Wieruch, 2017 51. React Key Concepts: Consolidate Your Knowledge of React's Core Features Maximilian Schwarzmuller, 2022 52. Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript Michael McMillan O'Reilly Media (2014) 53. Knockout.js (Building Dynamic Client-Side Web Applications) Jamie Munro O'Reilly Media (2014) 54. JavaScript for Dummies Emily A. Vander Veer Wiley Pub (2005)
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3-D Negotiation. Harvard Business School Press (James K. Sebenius & David A. Lax, 2008)
Part One: 3-D Negotiation in a Nutshell
CH 1: Negotiate in Three Dimensions
CH 2: Do a 3-D Audit of Barriers to Agreement
1. With a provisional agreement in mind, do a 3-D barriers audit. 1.1. What prevents you from reaching the potential of the deal you want? 1.2. Wrong parties? Wrong interests? Wrong no-deal options? Wrong sequence? Wrong basic process choices? Wrong deal design? Adverse tactics or interpersonal approach? 2. Assess setup barriers. 2.1. Have you mapped all the parties, their interests, and best no-deal options? 2.2. Have you assessed the full set of actually and potentially involved parties? 2.3. Have you probed the full set of interests at stake, yours and theirs, going behind bargaining positions? 2.4. Have you assessed each side’s best no-deal option, which sets the bar for any acceptable deal and influences negotiating “power”? 2.5. Have you checked the sequence and basic process choices? 3. Assess deal-design barriers. 3.1. Does the proposed agreement create the maximum possible value? 3.2. Does it meet the requirements and objectives of the parties? 4. Assess tactical and interpersonal barriers. 4.1. Do you face hardball or other difficult tactics? 4.2. Are there communication, trust, personality, style, or cross-cultural issues? 5. Watch for cross-cutting barriers. 5.1. An adverse deal/no-deal balance? 5.2. Missing or blurry information?CH 3: Craft a 3-D Strategy to Overcome the Barriers
1. A 3-D strategy is an aligned combination of setup, deal design, and tactical moves to overcome barriers to agreement. It enables you to “let them have your way in 3-D.” Following a barriers audit, it requires that you: 1.1. Set up the right negotiation. 1.2. Get the parties right. Get the interests right. Get no-deal options and the deal/no-deal balance right. Get the sequence of approach right. Get basic process choices right. 1.3. Design value-creating deals. 1.4. Stress problem-solving tactics. 2. Remember that a barrier encountered in one dimension can often push you into other dimensions for a solution. 3. While we present the elements of 3-D strategies as separate classes of moves “away from the table,” “on the drawing board,” and “at the table,” they tend to happen more concurrently in practice.Part Two: Set Up the Right Negotiation
“Away from the Table”CH4: Get All the Parties Right
1. A vital part of getting the setup right is getting the parties right. 2. Think expansively to get the right all-party map. 3. To get the right all-party map, take a disciplined look beyond the usual suspects to figure out who might really matter: potential and actual parties, internal and external players, principals and agents, decision makers and influencers, allies and blockers, and high- and low-value parties, as well those who must approve and implement the deal. 4. Map the relationships among those on your all-party map by assessing the informal as well as the formal decision and governance processes.CH 5: Get All the Interests Right
1. To get the setup right, get the interests right. 1.1. Whatever each party cares about that is at stake is an interest. 1.2. Make mapping interests—yours and theirs—a central priority, well before the formal negotiations begin and throughout the process. 1.3. Avoid the Reverse Midas Touch; don’t let price bulldoze a potentially richer set of interests including perceived fairness, self-image, reputation, relationships, the social contract, the negotiation process itself, and ethics. 2. Don’t mistake bargaining positions for the richer set of underlying interests. 3. Don’t forget to ask your counterparts directly and indirectly about interests, actively listen to the responses, and probe what you hear. 4. Use standard public sources to map interests. 5. Tap internal sources as well as others who have negotiated with your prospective counterparts. 6. Tap knowledgeable advisers appropriately. 7. Be aware of unconsciously skewed perceptions: the mythical fixed pie, self-serving role biases, and partisan perceptions. 8. Take deliberate steps to counteract the psychological mechanisms that can powerfully but unconsciously skew interest perceptions.CH 6: Get the No-Deal Options Right
1. Use your best no-deal options, and those of the other negotiating parties, to determine whether and, if so, where a zone of possible agreement (ZOPA) exists. (Don’t neglect “internal” no-deal options in your assessment!) 2. Make sure the other side sees you as ultimately able and willing to walk away. When your counterpart(s) perceives a credible increase in your willingness to walk away—especially in the direction of an attractive no-deal option — your at-the-table outcomes often improve. Therefore, take steps to improve your best no-deal option and consider actions to worsen that of your counterpart. 3. Take care to protect—and do not inadvertently weaken—your no-deal options. 4. Consider worsening your own no-deal option, in certain very carefully selected circumstances. 5. When diagnosing a potential negotiation, use your understanding of no-deal options to distinguish between those situations in which negotiation can play a major role and those in which it must play a lesser role.CH 7: Get the Sequence and Basic Process Choices Right
1. To sequence effectively: 1.1. Scan widely to map the range of potential parties as well as the relationships among them, including the costs and benefits of gaining each party’s agreement. 1.2. Map backward from the key players who are critical to the deal. With respect to a target player, ask which prior agreements among which of the other players might help persuade the target to say “yes.” Do the same for the penultimate player. Keep working backward in this fashion until you have found the most promising path through the cloud of possibilities. 1.3. Ask whether the parties should mainly meet together or separately at each stage of the process. Similarly, decide whether it would be more productive for the stages of the negotiation to be public or private. 1.4. Manage the flow of information carefully and think through how to frame each stage. 2. Beyond setup moves, negotiators should make basic process choices, including: 2.1. Classic process choices include whether to involve mediation, arbitration, other various alternative dispute resolution devices, and special procedures such as “Texas shootouts.” 2.2. Though a wide range of options is available, two polar sets of basic process choices can be captured in very different overall approaches to the negotiation process: a contractually oriented decide/announce/defend (DAD) method, and a stakeholder-relationship-focused full consensus (FC) option. 2.3. A useful checklist of basic process characteristics includes the auspices of the process, its mandate, participation rules, decision and procedural expectations, agenda considerations, staging, external communication norms, process support (from technical advice to third parties such as mediators or facilitators), and postdeal arrangements. 2.4. When considering the process elements on this checklist, think hard about whether it is better to deal with them explicitly, or leave them on a more ad hoc and implicit basis. You should also decide whether these elements should be put up for negotiation, or whether you should try to stipulate, or even impose, your basic process preferences.Part Three: Design Value-Creating Deals
“On the Drawing Board”CH 8: Move “Northeast”
1. Many people see the zone of possible agreement as a Battle Line, in which one side’s gain necessarily implies another side’s loss. 2. Negotiation also involves “northeasterly,” value-creating moves that simultaneously benefit all sides, at no cost to anyone. Such moves are fundamentally different than mutually acceptable compromises along a Battle Line. 3. While common ground and shared interests are important, value is often created by dovetailing differences of interest or priority. 4. Relentlessly probe for different interests that are relatively easy for one side to give—yet highly valuable for the other side to get. Such differences can be profitably unbundled or form the basis for mutually beneficial trades. Search for high benefit–low cost moves. 5. Thinking creatively and perhaps well beyond this specific deal, ask what could the two sides possibly do jointly to create the most value together? What specific steps could be taken to maximize the net value of the total pie? 6. If you encounter skepticism—or feel skeptical yourself—remember that there are good psychological reasons why people think that value-creation can’t be for real. At the same time, remember that these psychological blind spots sometimes prevent negotiators from spotting immense cooperative potential. 7. Don’t forget that creating value is only half the story; it must also be claimed. This tends to happen concurrently, rather than sequentially. The real challenge in negotiation is to productively manage the Negotiator’s Dilemma: the tension between the cooperative moves that are necessary to create value and the competitive moves needed to claim it.CH 9: Dovetail Differences
1. A deal-design approach complements an interpersonal process view of negotiation with an understanding of the principles behind value creation. Knowing what you are looking for can counteract powerful psychological biases toward seeing the world in “fixed-pie” terms. 2. Rather than looking mainly for common ground and shared interests, deal designers probe for differences of many kinds to create value. 3. The basic “differences” principle counsels a search for high-benefit, low-cost items, or those that are relatively cheap for one side to give, but that the other side finds relatively valuable to get. 4. Develop a differences inventory, with clear knowledge of how characteristic deal designs can unlock joint gains from distinct classes of differences: 4.1. Differences of interest or priority can lead to mutually beneficial trades orcreative solutions that unbundle underlying interests. 4.2. Differences in cost and revenue structure suggest crafting arrangements of highest net value. 4.3. Complementary differences in capability can be profitably combined. 4.4. Differences in beliefs about the future can lead to joint gains from carefully crafted contingent agreements, paying careful attention to incentives and the informational underpinning of the difference. 4.5. Differences in attitudes toward risk—assessing, bearing, or influencing it—can lead to mutually preferable mechanisms. Differences in attitudes toward time, whether simple discount rate differences or more complex manifestations—can suggest collectively shifting benefits and costs to match differing time preferences. 4.6. Many other differences—in tax status, accounting or regulatory treatment, sensitivity to constituencies, etc.—can profitably be arbitraged, singly or in combination, by sophisticated deal designers to create value on a sustainable basis. 5. By looking beyond the immediately involved parties and issues, a differences orientation can often suggest moves to profitably change the setup for all sides—by adding or subtracting parties and issues that manifest complementary differences.CH 10: Make Lasting Deals
1. Many of the moves described in earlier chapters do more than create a positive process, build good working relationships, and set the stage for good outcomes. They can also enhance the sustainability of agreements in the face of very significant change, whether internal or external. 2. While many negotiated agreements are clearly time- and task-limited, it may be a mistake to treat social and economic contracts as fixed and static. In many cases, the likelihood of new challenges and opportunities calls for the expectation of change—which calls, in turn, for deals designed for profitable evolution. 3. Think through the likely future evolution of agreements and accompanying attitudes. Design economic agreements and negotiate expectations that productively anticipate foreseeable changes in circumstances. 4. If possible, avoid simplexed negotiations and agreements, because they tend to be fragile. Consider multiplexing both parties and issues of a potentially vulnerable agreement to broaden and deepen its supporting coalition, and to weave an interest web that is harder to dislodge. 5. After the deal is done, keep an eye out for likely adverse shifts in the continuing deal/no-deal balance. 6. In particular, beware of potentially insecure contracts—agreements in which, when one party makes an irrevocable or costly-to-reverse move,the other side has an incentive to defect from the deal. 7. To make insecure contracts more secure, consider: 7.1. Setup moves to render the situation more sustainable 7.2. Deal-design moves aimed at prevention; for example, contingent or more flexible contracts, performance bonds, linkages and multiplexing, and various compliance mechanisms 8. In some cases, the best prevention is to stay out of the deal altogether.CH 11: Negotiate the Spirit of the Deal
Auditing Perceptions of the Underlying Social Contract To negotiate truly compatible views, consider an explicit and periodic “audit” of all sides’ perceptions. Here’s a sample checklist: Real nature and purpose. Do you envision a discrete transaction or partnership? A merger of equals or something different? Building an institution for the long term or making a financial investment? Do you see the driving culture as, for example, operational? Research-oriented? Marketing? Engineering? and so on. Scope and duration. Are you focused on a discrete task in the short term or is it more open-ended? Is it a likely prelude to a larger or different arrangement? Of what actions, even outside the formal bounds of the deal, do each of us expect to be informed and over which do we expect some say? and so on.Part Four: Stress Problem-Solving Tactics
“At the Table”Chapter Twelve: Shape Perceptions to Claim Value
Thomas Edison's Universal Stock Ticker
Thomas Edison invented the “Universal” stock ticker, a device used for many years by brokerage houses. When Edison first offered this device for sale, he added up the time and effort he had put into inventing it and concluded he was entitled to $5,000 for it. That’s what he decided to ask for it. Ultimately, though, he figured he would accept $3,000. When General Lefferts, the president of the Gold & Stock Telegraph Company, came to negotiate, Edison was going to name his price. But he couldn’t, Edison said, because he “hadn’t the nerve toname such a large sum.” Instead Edison asked General Lefferts to make him an offer. Lefferts offered $40,000. Edison said he thought that was “fair.” Edison would have lost $35,000 just by making the first offer. Edison’s experience notwithstanding, we’d like to offer some contrarian advice here: In cases when you are not hopelessly uninformed, seriously consider going first. 1. Remember the Twin Tasks of haggling: learn about the true zone of possible agreement (ZOPA), and favorably shape perceptions of it. 2. Learn about the ZOPA by using prior research, analyzing your best no-deal option as well as the other side’s, and continuously mining the other side’s moves for real ZOPA-related information. Update your ZOPA assessment frequently. 3. Focus on the opportunity, rather than the downside; as part of your preparation consider writing a short paragraph on what you hope to accomplish, not what you want to avoid. 4. Set a fairly aggressive target. 5. Shape perceptions of the ZOPA by: 5.1. Meta-anchoring—implicitly shaping the definition of the problem the negotiation will solve. Brainstorm possible meta- anchors, assess their implications, and take the initiative to meta-anchor the negotiation favorably and head off unfavorable meta-anchors. 5.2. Anchoring directly with favorable offers, numbers or data, and “non-offer offers” and “extreme but flexible offers.” Don’t forget to justify your proposals. 6. Strongly consider making the first offer—an extreme but flexible or non-offer offer—to gain the benefits of anchoring. 7. Use the midpoint rule to respond to their offer; counteroffer so the midpoint between the two offers is your target. 8. Avoid being anchored by an extreme offer—clearly communicate that the offer is unacceptable, and shift the metric to unfreeze the anchor and drop your own more favorable counter-anchoring. 9. Use patterns of concession converging to a supposed limit, and be aware that your counterpart may use this tactic. 10. Use and be alert for the norm of reciprocity—your concession may induce one from them, and vice versa. 11. Use the contrast principle—the offer that follows an extreme offer may look more generous than it would have if it didn’t follow the extreme offer. 12. Be wary of splitting the difference and consider it only when when last offers are close and both acceptable. 13. Persuade your counterparts that saying yes to your price is better than their alternatives, that accepting a price that you like is a good (and fair) choice for them, and that the constraints upon you make it hard for you to move. 13.1. Prepare fairness arguments and prepare to respond to fairness arguments. 13.2. Avoid unsupported commitments. Consider making supported commitments. 13.3. Treat unsupported commitments as aspirations. When they support their attempted commitments with a clear rationale that certain interests would be damaged if they moved, undo their commitments by finding other ways to meet those interests.Chapter Thirteen: Solve Joint Problems to Create and Claim Value
1. Effective tactics must productively manage the tension between the cooperative moves necessary to create value jointly and the competitive moves to claim it individually. This means eliciting enough information to generate good options while managing your vulnerability. 2. Ask, listen, and learn: 2.1. Listen actively. 2.2. Ask open-ended questions rather than yes/no questions: “What if? Why? Why not? How would that work for you?” 2.3. Bring a designated listener. 3. Divulge information strategically: 3.1. Begin with the end: at the beginning, jointly envision the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, perhaps by writing a press release in advance on the hoped- for outcome that meets everyone’s core interests. 3.2. Use the norm of reciprocity to build trust and share/gain information: start by offering low-risk information and ratchet up. 3.3. Present multiple equivalent offers. 3.4. Sequence issues carefully and negotiate in packages. 4. Foster an appealing, productive negotiation process by establishing a positive atmosphere: 4.1. Psychologically place the parties side by side against the problem rather than face-to-face against each other. 4.2. Focus on advancing interests rather than arguing positions. 4.3. Focus on the future instead of the past and on problem solving instead of blaming. 4.4. Focus on disaggregated fact-based communications rather than high-level assertions. 5. Adopt a persuasive style. 5.1. Be open to persuasion. 5.2. Be both empathetic and assertive. 5.3. Tell stories as well as using facts and logic. 5.4. Inoculate against potentially disadvantageous arguments. 5.5. Match your appeal to where your counterparts are and how they process information. 5.6. Make your appeal work through their cultural filters. 6. For the deal that “lets them have your way,” write your counterparts’ victory speech, showing their key audiences why accepting your proposal was a wise decision.Part Five: 3-D Strategies in Practice
“Let Them Have Your Way”Chapter Fourteen: Map Backward to Craft a 3-D Strategy
Back to 1912: The Roosevelt Campaign and Moffett Studios In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was nearing the end of a 2 hard-fought presidential election campaign. Critical to his success was a final whistle-stop journey through the American heartland. At each stop, Roosevelt planned to inspire his audiences with his powerful oratorical skills, and give everyone in attendance a small pamphlet, some three million of which had been printed and packed away in boxcars. On the cover of the pamphlet was a stern, “presidential” portrait; inside was the transcript of a stirring speech called “Confession of Faith.” With luck, this strategy would clinch the critical votes. The barnstorming campaign was about to begin when a campaign worker discovered a small line on each photograph that read, “Moffett Studios, Chicago.” Since Moffett held the copyright, the unauthorized use of each photo could each cost the campaign one dollar. The potential $3 million cost of distributing all the pamphlets would greatly exceed the campaign’s available resources. The campaign workers were near panic. What should they do? What could they do? All the options looked bad. Not using the pamphlets might sink Roosevelt’s chances at the polls. But if the campaign used the pamphlets without Moffett’s permission and got caught, all kinds of bad things might result: they could be sued for copyright infringement, a scandal might break out very close to the election, andthe campaign might be liable for an unaffordable amount. Quickly, the campaign workers reached a consensus: they would have to negotiate something with Moffett. At the same time, they realized that they had no idea how to approach this negotiation. Research by their Chicago operatives turned up discouraging news. While Moffett had been a photographer for years, with both artistic and commercial aspirations, he had achieved little critical success, and virtually no financial success. He was now approaching retirement, reportedly bitter and cynical, with a single-minded focus on money. It’s not hard to put yourself in the shoes of those campaign workers as they tried to plot their negotiating strategy, or to imagine the queasy feelings in their stomachs. It must have seemed a hopelessly weak position: approaching a photographic studio whose owner had a keen interest in money, facing a pressing time deadline, thinking of three million pamphlets already packed in boxcars with no time to redo them, contemplating a potential $3 million price tag—or possibly worse, in the case of a lawsuit—and having nothing like the resources that they appeared to need. If we were to translate their predicament into the language we’ve been developing in the preceding chapters, the campaign workers assessed their no-deal options in negotiations with Moffett as exceedingly weak. As they saw the situation, if Moffett were to say “no” to any affordable price proposal, the campaign would either (1) face an unaffordably large financial exposure if it went ahead and used the photos, or (2) risk losing any shot at the presidency if it did not use the pictures. By contrast, Moffett seemed to enjoy a commanding option in the event of no deal. Given this assessment, the only deals that might induce a “yes” from Moffett would involve impossibly large payments. In brief, thecampaign faced a potent barrier: an exceedingly adverse deal/no-deal balance. Again: what on earth could they do, and should they do? Dispirited, the campaign workers approached George Perkins, noted financier, partner of J. P. Morgan, California railroad builder, and Roosevelt’s campaign manager. Perkins lost no time summoning his stenographer to dispatch the following cable to Moffett Studios in Chicago: “We are planning to distribute millions of pamphlets with Roosevelt’s picture on the cover. It will be great publicity for the studio whose photograph we use. How much will you pay us to use yours? Respond immediately.” Virtually by return telegraph, he received the following reply from Moffett: “We’ve never done this before, but under the circumstances we’d be pleased to offer you $250.” Reportedly, Perkins accepted the offer—without trying to get even more from Moffett. # An effective 3-D strategy is an aligned and mutually reinforcing combination of setup, deal-design, and tactical moves chosen to overcome barriers to agreement. # To help organize the elements of your strategy, map backward from your target deal to the deal/no-deal balance that will most likely induce them to make this choice, and then make your way back to the current situation. This enables you to determine the actions you must now take to face them with the right deal/no-deal balance.Chapter Fifteen: Think Strategically, Act Opportunistically
AOL, Microsoft, and Netscape: Negotiating the Browser Wars Sometimes, you are simply outclassed on the central competitive aspects of a deal. For example, the customers of America Online (AOL) in 1996 were clamoring for an Internet browser. Despite its huge commercial success, AOL was developing an image as the “Internet for dummies.” Top management was concerned that this perception would spread, damage its franchise, and blunt future growth prospects. In short, AOL had a pressing need for a cutting-edge browser to improve its image and to allow its customers easy access to the Web that lay beyond AOL’s proprietary confines. In a brutally competitive process, Netscape and Microsoft negotiated with AOL over which browser it 1 would adopt. Netscape’s technically superior Navigator, with a 75 to 85 percent market share, contended with Microsoft’s much buggier Explorer, then stuck at 3 to 4 percent and struggling for a market foothold, but a critical strategic priority for Bill Gates. A confident, even arrogant, Netscape held out for a high per-copy fee from AOL, in effect defining a technically based “browser-for-dollars” deal. From the perspective of Steve Case, AOL’s CEO, “They [Netscape] were very aggressive about selling the browser, but they wanted a very high per-copy fee. The attitude was, ‘We’re 2 so hot, we’ll license to everyone, so you better take it.’” And Netscape was playing a very strong hand vis-Ã -vis both its direct negotiating counterpart (AOL) and competitor (Microsoft). As AOL’s senior vice president Jean Villanueva later observed, “The deal was Netscape’s to lose. They were dominant. We needed to get what themarket wanted. Most importantly, we saw ourselves as 3 smaller companies fighting the same foe—Microsoft.” So how did Microsoft prevail in this negotiation and, ultimately, win the browser wars? What kind of choice would lead AOL chief Steve Case to opt for Microsoft? In part, the answer can be found in the deal terms. When the deal was done, Microsoft’s Explorer would be provided to AOL for free, in contrast with the fee-based Navigator arrangement, with Microsoft also promising AOL a series of technical adaptations in a multiyear context. Most remarkably to outside observers, Microsoft agreed that AOL client software would be bundled with the new Windows operating system. Even as a direct competitor to AOL, Microsoft would position the AOL icon on the Windows desktop right next to the icon for the Microsoft Network (MSN)—the online service created in direct response to AOL’s success. This positioning on “the most valuable desktop real estate in the world” would permit AOL to reach an additional 50 million people per year at effectively zero cost, compared to the $40 to $80 per-customer acquisition cost it currently incurred by “carpet bombing” the country with AOL disks. The value to AOL of having its icon on the Windows desktop was immense for marketing, distribution, and competitive reasons, in effect, blunting the threat posed by MSN. In effect, Bill Gates sacrificed the medium-term position of MSN to his larger goal of winning the browser wars. Microsoft’s technically inferior browser meant that its prospects of winning on that battleground were poor regardless of its negotiating skills and tactics at the table. Yet while Netscape was confidently playing a waiting game to bring AOL around, Microsoft undertook a 3-D effort to favorably shift the negotiating ground from Netscape’s technical “browser-for-dollars” deal towardwider business issues that keenly interested AOL and on which Microsoft held a decisive edge. Moreover, rather than focus on the technologists, Microsoft concentrated on AOL’s more business-oriented executives. As AOL’s lead negotiator and business development head David Colburn stated, “The willingness of Microsoft to bundle AOL... with the Windows operating system was a critically important competitive factor that was impossible for Netscape to match.” Rather than trying to play a poor tech hand well, Microsoft changed the negotiating setup to a business arena in which it had the edge. This episode has important game-changing lessons: Are you in a weak position on issues A and B? Can you change the setup to emphasize issues D and E, on which you are strong? Moreover, are you dealing with person X, whose interests do not match your strengths? In tandem with your revised issues focus, can you shift the emphasis to person Y, who will be more receptive? Microsoft did not simply prevail by changing the issue setup. Perhaps unexpectedly, given the heavy-handed reputation Microsoft has in many quarters, Netscape’s arrogant actions at the table put it at a major disadvantage. As Alex Edelstein, Netscape senior product manager, put it, “We were too arrogant . . . Netscape thought its stuff was so good, it was enough to just put it out there.” On the receiving end, AOL CEO Steve Case observed, “[Netscape had] no desire to treat us as a partner; they only wanted to treat us like a customer.” In contrast, Microsoft deployed its massive resources toward meeting a much richer set of AOL’s interests than Netscape even appeared to acknowledge with its stubborn “browsers-for-dollars” hardball price proposal. This reminds us that tactics—in tandem with the setup 5 and deal design—can carry, or lose, the day.Realistically, though, how could Netscape (David) have had a prayer against (Microsoft) Goliath? Wasn’t Microsoft’s victory inevitable, given its vast resources and powerful strategic interest in winning the browser wars? In our view, Netscape could indeed have carried the day. In January 1996, three months before the finale, AOL chief Steve Case flew out to California to have dinner at Jim Barksdale’s home while discussing potential AOL links to Netscape. Case proposed that Netscape produce a special Navigator version for AOL that would serve as the principal browser for AOL’s 5 million subscribers. He also proposed that AOL run Netscape’s extremely popular but woefully underexploited Web site, which was receiving millions of hits daily. AOL certainly had the capacity to leverage the commercial potential of such massive traffic (it may also have wanted to control a potential competitor to its own site). Finally, Case suggested that Netscape and AOL actively cross-promote each other and that Netscape include an AOL seat on its board in order to cement the partnership. All Netscape had to do to shut out Microsoft was be more flexible on its price demands and “say yes!” to Case (while asking for a bulletproof exclusive). Barksdale discussed this proposal with managers and engineers at Netscape. They opposed the move, citing the effort that would be required to create an AOL-specific Navigator, one that would be “componentized” to fit with AOL’s look and feel. Blocked by the failure of his internal negotiations, Barksdale ended up telling Case that the partnership proposal was a nonstarter. He countered by saying that AOL would be a “good distribution channel for Navigator” at a cost to AOL of $10 per downloaded copy. Incredibly, Netscape failed to do the deal not once, but twice. Four months after the Microsoft-AOL agreement, the door to an AOL-Netscape deal reopened. Ram Shriram, then a vice president of Netscape, recounted what happened next: “AOL came to us again. AOL’s stock was tanking and it was getting sued by the attorneys general of various states. They were keen to come back to the table and forge a relationship with us.” Barksdale and Shriram met with AOL’s Steve Case, but Netscape’s engineering team rejected the proposed deal, saying, as Shriram put it, “‘Look, we’re all busy. We’re not really interested. Our focus is not consumers.’ We lost out another opportunity to take charge of another 10 to 12 million browsers.” Thus Netscape lost another opportunity to make a deal that would keep its control of the browser market. Given these facts, it’s hard to see Microsoft’s victory as a foregone conclusion. Had Netscape acted on a clearer analysis of the full set of parties (internal as well as external), their interests (beyond the technical aspects of a browser and price), and no-deal options (for itself, AOL, and Microsoft)—and had it looked for ways to create as well as try to arrogantly claim value with AOL— the outcome of these negotiations could have been far more favorable. But Netscape did not, and its failure to do so gave Microsoft the opening to reset the table, design a value-creating deal behind which to put its massive resources, and ultimately win the browser wars.
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Text Summarization (Project Setup)
pegasus.yml File
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Vermicelli
1. Chop onion and green chilli
2. Heat 2 tsp. Refined oil with .5 salt spoon of Dhania powder, Red chilli powder and Rai dana 0.5 tsp
3. Fry the mixture.
4. Half glass 125 - 150 ml of vermicelli
5. 2 glasses of water
6. Stir well
7. Let the mixture cook on low flame for 10 minutes
8. Add 1 tsp salt (as per taste)
Summary of Biography of Elon Musk (Fixing Mistakes of Pegasus using ChatGPT)
# When I asked Elon Musk to help me write a book about him, he said, “I don’t want to do it.”
# I first met Elon Musk in 2012.
# On a recent visit to Elon Musk’s SpaceX factory in Hawthorne, California, I was taken aback by the scale of the operation. Musk and I talked, as he made his way around the design studio’s main floor, inspecting prototype parts and vehicles.
# In our series of letters from African-American journalists, novelist, and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on his time in San Francisco during the dotcom boom and bust.
# In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Silicon Valley created some of the biggest technology companies the world had ever seen.
# In the late 1990s, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, moved his company from Silicon Valley to Hawthorne, California.
# Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and the Boring Company, wants to send humans to Mars.
# There are two things that make Elon Musk stand out.
Contextual Incompleteness: What are the two things?
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Yes, there are many things that make Elon Musk stand out, but two of the most prominent are:
Entrepreneurial Success: Elon Musk is known for his remarkable entrepreneurial success in a range of industries, including technology, space exploration, and transportation. He co-founded PayPal, which revolutionized online payment systems, and went on to found companies like Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, each of which is disrupting its respective industry in innovative ways.
Futuristic Vision: Musk is also known for his futuristic vision and ambition to push the boundaries of what is possible. He has made bold statements about his plans to colonize Mars, revolutionize transportation with Hyperloop technology, and merge humans with artificial intelligence. His vision and ambition have made him a highly influential figure in the tech industry and beyond.
# When Elon Musk was growing up in South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, the world was a very different place.
# When Joshua Haldeman and his wife, Wyn, moved from Toronto to Cape Town, South Africa, in the early 1950s, the Haldemans had everything they needed: a house, a dance practice, a plane, and five children.
# Maye Musk was the nerd in her family.
# Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of Tesla Motors, is a master of the mind.
# Elon Musk’s mother, Maye, had just divorced her second husband, Errol, and had three children of her own.
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ChatGPT suggests this: Maye Musk is the mother of entrepreneur and tech billionaire Elon Musk. She has been married three times and has three children from her second marriage to Errol Musk. Elon Musk has one brother, Kimbal, and one sister, Tosca. Maye Musk is also a successful model and dietician.
# Elon Musk’s father, Errol, is a prominent South African businessman and philanthropist.
# When Elon Musk was growing up, he and his friends Kimbal and Peter Rive took the train to South Africa.
# When Elon Musk went to high school in South Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was among a handful of students with the grades and self-professed interest to be selected for an experimental computer program.
# In the summer of 1988, 12-year-old Musk’s mother, Maye, sent him off to live with her uncle in Minnesota.
Factual Incorrectness.
ChatGPT suggests:
No, that statement is not entirely accurate. In the summer of 1988, Elon Musk did spend time in Minnesota, but he did not live with his mother's uncle. According to Musk's biography, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future," he spent about a year living with his father, Errol Musk, in South Africa before his mother Maye sent him to live with relatives in Canada. Musk then traveled to the United States and spent a summer in Minnesota, where he worked odd jobs and lived with a family friend. This experience gave him a taste of independence and allowed him to explore his interests in computers and technology.
# When Peter Nicholson met Elon Musk and Maye Kimbal at Queen’s University in Toronto, they were both working at the same bank.
# When Elon Musk was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was known as the “serial entrepreneur.”
Factual Incorrectness.
ChatGPT suggests:
No, that statement is not accurate. Elon Musk did attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for a short time, but he was not known as the "serial entrepreneur" during his time there. Musk attended MIT for a few months in the late 1980s before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania to study business and physics.
Musk did have an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age, and he started his first company, a video game software company called Zip2, while he was still a student at the University of Pennsylvania. However, the term "serial entrepreneur" is typically used to describe someone who has started multiple companies over the course of their career. While Musk has certainly gone on to found and co-found several successful companies, he was not yet known for this during his time at MIT.
# When Elon Musk and Adeo Ressi arrived at the University of California, Berkeley, they had no idea what to expect.
# In his final year at Queen’s University, Elon Musk received an award from his professor for his work on a new type of capacitor.
# In the summer of 1994, Elon Musk was about to start college.
Factual Incompleteness: Which college?
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In the summer of 1994, Elon Musk had already completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and was about to start his graduate studies at Stanford University. Musk graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in both physics and economics in 1995.
While at Stanford, Musk pursued a Ph.D. in energy physics, but he ultimately left the program after just two days to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions in the emerging field of the internet. He co-founded Zip2, a web software company that provided online business directories and maps to newspapers, and later went on to co-found other successful companies like PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX.
# When Elon Musk moved to Silicon Valley in the early 1990s, he was working as an engineer at Pinnacle Innovations, a start-up founded by people who’d done similar work at companies like Atari and Atari 2600.
# When Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal started Zip2, a turn-by-turn directions service in San Francisco in the early 1990s, they had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
# John Heilman, one of Zip2’s early employees, gave up his job as a software developer to go door-to-door with Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk’s brother and co-founder of Tesla Motors. Elon Musk stopped pounding his keyboard, leaned out from behind his monitor, and said
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# Kimbal Musk, one of Elon Musk’s brothers and the co-founder of Zip2, told me that he and his brother had a strained relationship.
# In the early days of Zip2, the car-sharing company founded by Elon Musk, the young engineers at the company were given little time to think.
# In 1996, Zip2 launched a free online classified advertising service for newspapers.
# Kimbal Musk, one of the co-founders of Zip2, a car-sharing service that was sold to Google for $1bn in 2004, told the BBC’s Stephen Sackur in an interview that when he sold the company to Google, he had no idea what he was doing.
# In the early 1990s, Elon Musk, the founder of electric carmaker Tesla Motors, was having a bad day.
# In the early 1990s, Elon Musk came up with the idea for an online bank while working at a bank in Canada.
# When Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of Zip2 and X.com, bought a McLaren F1 racing car in 2005, he had no intention of using it for personal use.
# When Elon Musk started X.com, a Silicon Valley-based online bank, he enlisted the help of Peter Fricker, Craig Payne, and Peter Ho.
# When I first met Elon Musk at his start-up called X.com in the early 1990s, he was working on a payment system for Palm Pilot handhelds, so I asked him what he was up to and he said he was working on a payment system for Palm Pilot handhelds, so I asked
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# When Elon Musk bought X.com in 1999 for $1bn (£640m), he inherited a start-up that had become embroiled in a bitter dispute with two of Silicon Valley’s most influential investors, Peter Thiel and Peter Levchin.
# In January 2002, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk met with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and PayPal’s other co-founder, Scott Moritz, to discuss the future of the company.
# Elon Musk, the founder of Zip2 and PayPal, has died at the age of 45.
Factual Incorrectness.
ChatGPT suggests:
No, that statement is not true. Elon Musk, as of my knowledge cutoff date of September 2021, was still alive and actively involved in his various ventures, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.
While it is true that Musk co-founded Zip2 and PayPal, he did not die at the age of 45. In fact, he was born on June 28, 1971, which would make him 51 years old as of March 2023. It's important to fact-check information before sharing it to ensure that we're not spreading false information.
# Three years ago, Elon Musk was in the midst of one of the most turbulent periods of his career.
# In the summer of 2001 Elon Musk and his wife Justine were living in Palo Alto, California, running their start-up X.com.
# When the Mars Society, a group of scientists working on sending humans to Mars in the 2030s, held its annual dinner in Los Angeles last year, the invitations were sent out.
# In 2001, the Mars Society, a group of scientists, engineers, and celebrities that had been working on sending humans to the Red Planet since the 1960s, was in disarray.
# When billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced in 2006 that he was going to build a plant garden on Mars, he had no idea how much money he would need to do it.
# In 2002, Elon Musk and his business partner, Griffin Cantrell, flew to Moscow to meet with the Russian government to discuss buying a fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs, for use in space.
# When Russian entrepreneur Alexander Zubrin heard about Elon Musk’s plans to launch a private rocket company, he was ready to buy it.
Factual Inaccuracy.
ChatGPT suggests:
No, that statement is not entirely accurate. Alexander Zubrin is not a known Russian entrepreneur, and there is no record of him expressing interest in buying Elon Musk's private rocket company, SpaceX.
Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of making space travel more affordable and accessible. The company has since become a major player in the aerospace industry and has successfully launched a number of rockets and spacecraft, including the Falcon 9 rocket and the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
It is not uncommon for entrepreneurs and investors to express interest in acquiring companies, but there is no known instance of anyone attempting to buy SpaceX from Elon Musk.
# It all started with a simple conversation between John Garvey, a rocket builder, and John Cantrell, a friend and fellow enthusiast, at Garvey’s workshop.
# When Elon Musk’s private rocket company, SpaceX, opened its doors to the public in Hawthorne, California, in June of 2012, it did so with a flourish.
# In the summer of 2002, Elon Musk started a company called SpaceX to develop a rocket that could launch small experiments into orbit.
# When Elon Musk’s brother-in-law, Nevada, was killed in a car crash, Justine Musk told her husband: “You’re going to have to live with this for the rest of your life."
# Musk also recruited Gwynne Shotwell, an aerospace veteran who started as SpaceX’s first.
# In the early days of SpaceX, the company’s headquarters were located on the campus of Brown University.
# When Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX opened its doors in Hawthorne, California, in 2006, he brought with him an army of young engineers.
# At the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, SpaceX’s Kestrel and Merlin engines were put through their paces.
# In an interview with the BBC, Elon Musk, founder of the private rocket company SpaceX, said: “I’m not afraid to ask questions. When the third chamber cracked, Musk flew the hardware back to California, took it to the factory floor.
# When Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced plans to launch its Falcon 1 rocket from the White House in February, one of the engineers working on the rocket at the company’s factory in California, Scott Hollman, said, “We wanted to make it feel real...
# When SpaceX needed to connect its buildings to the internet, founder Elon Musk asked his employees to do it over a weekend in the middle of the night.
Fact Check and Filling in Details Using ChatGPT:
Yes, that statement is accurate. According to Elon Musk's biography, "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future," when SpaceX needed to connect its buildings to the internet, Musk asked his employees to do it over a weekend in the middle of the night. The task involved laying fiber-optic cables across the SpaceX campus to connect the company's various buildings to the internet.
Musk believed that outsourcing the task would be too expensive and time-consuming, so he asked his employees to do it themselves. Over the course of a weekend, the SpaceX team worked tirelessly to lay the cables, often working through the night to get the job done. The effort paid off, as SpaceX was able to connect its buildings to the internet at a fraction of the cost it would have taken to outsource the work.
# In the early days of Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, employees felt like they were second-class citizens.
# When Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX needed to launch a satellite into orbit, it turned to a remote island off the coast of Hawaii.
# In the summer of 2005, Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, set up shop on Kwaj, an island off the coast of South Korea.
# When SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Kwaj, South Korea, in July 2006, Elon Musk, the company’s founder, was furious.
# When the first stage of Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, it looked like it was going to go well.
# The Haldeman children had lots of downtime in the African bush while wild adventures with their parents.
# Maye Musk’s original video-game code for Blastar, the game he wrote as a twelve-year-old and published in a local magazine.
Mixing of Facts and Details.
It was not Maye Musk (she) who wrote the code but Elon (he).
# The three children of Elon Musk, founder of the electric car company Tesla, were all born in South Africa.
# Tesla co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk founded the electric carmaker in 1994.
Factual Inaccuracy.
ChatGPT suggests:
No, that statement is not accurate. While Elon Musk is indeed the co-founder and current CEO of Tesla, he did not found the electric carmaker in 1994. In fact, Tesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, with Elon Musk coming on board as a major investor and chairman of the board a year later in 2004.
Elon Musk played a key role in the early success of Tesla, helping to secure additional funding for the company and overseeing the development of its first electric car, the Tesla Roadster. However, he did not actually found the company.
# SpaceX’s first flight from Kwajalein Atoll (or Kwaj) in the Marshall Islands was a difficult but ultimately fruitful adventure for the engineers.
# Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, met with German astronaut Michael Mueller at the International Space Station earlier this year.
# SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by billionaire Elon Musk, is developing a robot that can build spacecraft.
# The private rocket company SpaceX is developing new ways to launch and land spacecraft.
# Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of SpaceX, visited a Dairy Queen in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday.
# Elon Musk is the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, a private rocket company based in Hawthorne, California.
# Tesla Motors, the electric car maker, has announced that it is shutting down its factory in Fremont, California.
# Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of Tesla Motors, is a big fan of Fidel Castro.
# An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft is due to lift off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday.
# Elon Musk, the billionaire co-founder of electric car maker Tesla, has been in the news in the past few weeks for a number of reasons.
# Tesla founder Elon Musk and his wife, Talulah Riley, are expecting their second child.
# In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bill Straubel worked nights and on the weekend doing electronics consulting for a start-up.
# Bill Straubel, the inventor of the lithium ion battery, had been meeting with Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors.
# When Tesla Motors cofounders Jeff Tarpenning and Steve Eberhard decided to start their own car company in 2003, they had no idea what kind of reception they would get.
# It all started with a phone call from Martin Eberhard, one of the co-founders of Tesla Motors.
# When Tesla’s Glenn Straubel and Evgeny Berdichevsky first started working on the electric car company’s prototype, they shared a single San Carlos, California.
# When Elon Musk dropped by Tesla’s headquarters in Palo Alto to test drive the company’s first car, the Roadster, on Jan.
# When Tesla first unveiled its Roadster electric car in 2005, one of the company’s engineers, Peter Tarpenning, sent Elon Musk, Tesla’s co-founder and chief executive, a picture of the car.
# When Tesla unveiled its first car, the Model S, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in 2006, the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, and chief financial officer, Steve Tarpenning, had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
# When the Tesla Roadster went on sale in 2007, Elon Musk and Martin Eberhard, Tesla’s co-founder and chief executive, were at odds.
# When Tesla announced that it would open a battery factory in Thailand, founder Elon Musk had no idea how complicated the process would be.
# Elon Musk, Tesla’s co-founder and chief executive, told me that Tim Eberhard, Tesla’s former chief executive, had told him that the cost of making the company’s first car, the Roadster, was too high.
# When Tesla’s chief executive, Martin Eberhard, found out that the company’s chairman, Robert Watkins, had told investors that Tesla was in chaos, he was furious.
# In the summer of 2007, Tesla’s founder and chief executive, Elon Musk, had a falling out with the company’s former chief executive, Roger Marks.
# Tesla’s former chief engineer, Dan Popple, remembers one meeting in which Elon Musk, Tesla’s co-founder and chief executive, was angry.
# Three of Tesla’s earliest employees left the company when Elon Musk took over as chief executive in 2007, according to people close to the company.
# When Elon Musk and his wife, Justine, moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, they became part of the city’s elite.
# When Elon Musk started Tesla and SpaceX in 2006, the press loved him.
# In the early days of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk was a very hands-on boss.
# When Elon Musk filed for divorce from his wife, Justine, in May of 2007, it was the end of an era. Justine took to her blog in an entry titled “golddigger,” and said she was fighting for a divorce settlement that would include their house, alimony and child support, $6 million in cash
# When Elon Musk and a group of friends went on a night out in London in the early 1990s, one of the men, Jason Lee, was determined to make the most of it.
# It all started with a simple exchange of e-mails.
# When Elon Musk announced that he was going to try to launch the Falcon 1 rocket for the third time in less than a year, he had a lot to live up to.
# On the morning of September 27, 2008, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, ordered his team to fly the body of his rocket from Los Angeles to Kwaj, a remote island in the South Pacific.
# When SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday afternoon, SpaceX flight director Tim McLaury said, “I knew it was going to be a good day.”
# In the summer of 2008, Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of Tesla Motors, learned that SpaceX, his company, had won a contract from NASA to resupply the International Space Station.
# When Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, announced last week that his company had won a $1.6 billion contract to supply the International Space Station (ISS), billionaire investor Nelson Gracias said, “Elon Musk...
# SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the most powerful rocket in the world.
# On Friday morning, a Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast.
# Elon Musk’s private rocket company, SpaceX, has announced that it will reduce the cost of sending satellites into orbit by 50% over the next five years.
# Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, is looking for engineers who are passionate about their work.
# Harish Singh, a former employee of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, told me he was fired from the company.
# The first thing you notice when you walk into SpaceX’s factory at Cape Canaveral is how big it is.
# Billionaire Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, is a pioneer in the field of making its own hardware.
# Elon Musk may be best known as the founder of SpaceX, a rocket company that has become one of the world’s most successful start-ups, but he’s also one of the world’s most intimidating executives.
# Elon Musk, founder and chief executive of private rocket company SpaceX, recently spoke to the BBC’s Stephen Sackur about his company’s failure to launch its first rocket on time.
# When SpaceX co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk was looking for engineers to work on the company’s Falcon 1 rocket, he turned to a Stanford University graduate who had worked on the Falcon 1’s predecessor.
# When SpaceX co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk announced that his company would be launching the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station this summer, he sent an e-mail to SpaceX’s chief operating officer, Gwynne Davis.
# Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, is based in Hawthorne, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, but the company’s mission is to put people on the International Space Station.
# If you’re Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, you’ve got a problem.
# Elon Musk’s treatment of former SpaceX chief engineer David Bowersox, who he called an “idiot,” has been widely reported.
# When SpaceX co-founder and chief executive Elon Musk called to tell her he was looking for a new employee, Susan Shotwell had no idea what she was getting herself into. “I did, and that’s when I told him, ‘You need a good business development person.’”
# In a rare interview with the press, SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell laid out her vision for the future of the space industry, as she sat down with interns at the company’s headquarters in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
# SpaceX’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said this week that his company’s goal is to become the “premier launch company” in the world.
# In March, SpaceX founder Elon Musk appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee to pitch his company to the US Air Force as a competitor to United Launch Alliance (ULA).
# When the private rocket company SpaceX launched its first Falcon 1 rocket on Kwajalein, Malaysia, in September 2005, it received a $12 million per flight option.
# When SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk unveiled the company’s new Dragon 2 spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) last week, it was clear that he was on a mission.
# It all started with a Christmas party.
# If you’ve ever watched a car ad, you’ll know that they’re pretty much the same thing every time.
# Tesla’s Model S was the most fuel-efficient car on the market.
# When Tesla unveiled its electric car, the Model S, in July 2012, few people outside Silicon Valley had heard of the company or its founder, Elon Musk.
# When Elon Musk raised the price of the Tesla Roadster from $75,000 to $100,000 in April 2007, he did so with the hope that it would attract more buyers to the electric car.
# When Tesla Motors unveiled its first all-electric car, the Roadster, in 2007, it was clear that Elon Musk and Co.
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ChatGPT suggests:
Yes, that statement is accurate. When Tesla Motors unveiled its first all-electric car, the Roadster, in 2007, Elon Musk was the CEO of the company and played a key role in its development and launch. The Roadster was a significant milestone for Tesla, as it was the first highway-capable electric car to be commercially available in the United States.
Musk and his team faced numerous challenges in bringing the Roadster to market, including developing new battery technology, building a charging infrastructure, and convincing consumers that electric cars could be both practical and fun to drive. Despite these challenges, the Roadster was a critical and commercial success, helping to establish Tesla as a major player in the automotive industry and paving the way for the company's future electric cars, including the Model S, Model X, and Model 3.
# Tesla’s decision to build the Model S on an all-electric platform came out of frustration with Fisker Automotive, according to Tesla’s chief engineer, Rob Lloyd.
# When von Holzhausen moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s, he had no idea what he was getting himself into.
# When Tesla founder Elon Musk asked von Holzhausen to design the company’s first car, he had no idea what he was getting himself into.
# In an interview with the BBC, Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk explained how the company had to choose between making the body panels of its Model S electric car from scratch or leaving them in the car.
# When Tesla’s chief engineer, von Holzhausen, arrived at the company in 2008, he wanted the public to see the Model S.
# When Michael O’Connell joined the Army in the early 1990s, he knew he wanted to be a soldier, but he didn’t know what he wanted to do with the rest of his life.
# When Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, and his business partner, James O’Connell, met with Daimler’s chief executive, Dieter Zetsche, in March 2009, they had a simple proposition.
# When Tesla unveiled its Model S electric car at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010, Jalopnik was not a fan.
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ChatGPT suggests:
Jalopnik's lack of enthusiasm towards the Tesla Model S during its debut in 2010 is not surprising given the skepticism surrounding electric cars at the time. In the early 2010s, many car enthusiasts and industry experts were skeptical about the feasibility of electric cars and their ability to compete with traditional gasoline-powered vehicles.
However, in the years since the Model S was first introduced, Tesla has continued to innovate and refine its electric cars, and the Model S has become one of the most highly regarded electric vehicles on the market. With its sleek design, impressive performance, and advanced features, the Model S has helped to change the perception of electric cars and has played a significant role in the growing popularity of electric vehicles around the world.
Ques: Who is Jalopnik?
Ans: Jalopnik is a popular automotive news and opinion website that covers a wide range of topics related to cars, motorcycles, and other vehicles. The website was launched in 2004 and has since become one of the most popular destinations on the web for car enthusiasts and industry insiders. Jalopnik is known for its irreverent tone, its willingness to criticize the automotive industry, and its coverage of a wide range of topics related to cars, including new vehicle reviews, industry news, and automotive culture. The website is part of the Gizmodo Media Group, which is owned by the digital media company G/O Media.
# In the early days of Tesla’s Model S, Javidan Javidan, the company’s chief engineer at the time, would sit in Elon Musk’s lap and jot down the changes he wanted to make to the car.
# When Tesla’s design chief, von Holzhausen, was asked to come up with a way to make the company’s Model X more child-friendly, he came up with one of the most radical ideas he’d ever seen.
# The first thing you notice when you walk into Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, is that it’s very different from the company’s previous facility in Hawthorne, California.
# “It’s been a restful few months,” Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla Motors, the electric car maker, said as I watched the film, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
# Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, once told me that one of the first problems he encountered with the company’s new Model S was that the interior of the car was “a mess.”
# In the first few weeks of April 2013, Elon Musk was on a mission.
# On a sweltering summer night in July, Tesla’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
# When Tesla unveiled its first Model S car in 2007, I was sitting in a coffee shop in Silicon Valley.
# Tesla doesn’t release a new Model S every year.
# Tesla founder Elon Musk once said, “If I had a rabbit on every gauge for Easter, he can have that done in a couple of hours.
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# Three brothers from Santa Cruz, California, had always loved technology.
# In a 2006 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk said that he and his cousins, Lyndon and David Rive, had come up with a solution to the problem of rising energy costs.
# When I first met Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SolarCity, I was struck by his sense of urgency.
# It’s been a long time coming.
# In an interview with the BBC, Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, said the company’s next-generation electric cars will be priced between $35,000 and $50,000.
# In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk revealed that he’s considering building a roller coaster at the company’s Gigafactory in Nevada.
# Elon Musk, founder of the private rocket company SpaceX, once said, “I don’t think it’s going to happen in 10 years.
# Billionaire Elon Musk, founder of the private rocket company SpaceX, has revealed his plans to send humans to Mars in the 2030s.
# In January of this year, Elon Musk proposed building a Hyperloop between Los Angeles and San Francisco and between San Francisco and D.C.
# Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and the rocket company SpaceX, is known as a ruthless boss who will do anything to get what he wants.
# Tesla’s founder and chief executive, Elon Musk, is a man of few emotions.
# When Elon Musk talks to the media, he’s not just talking about his companies, SolarCity, Tesla Motors.
# Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla are “nothing but an utterly derivative overhyped toy for showoffs.”
# In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Apple was the most valuable company in the country, and billions of its clever devices were spread all over the world.
# Google co-founder Larry Page has been speaking to the BBC about his relationship with Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, the rocket company that plans to send humans to Mars.
# Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is the subject of a new HBO documentary, “The Tesla Chronicles.”
# I’m writing a book about Elon Musk.
# It was a busy week for Elon Musk, with the announcement of the Hyperloop and the launch of the space Internet.
# Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of electric carmaker Tesla Motors, has been accused by a physicist of stealing his idea for an online mapping service, Zip2.
# When Bill O’Reilly accused Elon Musk of lying about his time at Stanford, I reached out to some of the people who knew him best.
# “I finished my physics degree in ’94, and then I went to grad school.
# In the second of our two interviews with PayPal’s former chief executive, Elon Musk, we look back at his time at X.com.
# PayPal co-founder and chief executive Scott Thompson talks about the company’s business model, PayPal’s relationship with X.com, and how Square is doing the wrong version of PayPal.
# In our series of letters from the world’s leading entrepreneurs, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk shares his thoughts on whether or not the company should go public.
# It is not correct to think that SpaceX would be as bad as Tesla or SolarCity if we were publicly traded.
# We have had a number of investors express interest in buying shares in SpaceX, so I thought I would share my thoughts with them.
# I’m writing this on the eve of the release of my book about Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk.
# On a personal front, I’d like to thank Elon Musk.
# Silicon Valley is home to some of the world's most cutting-edge technology, as well as some of its most successful companies.
# Almeda Haldeman was Elon Musk’s great-grandmother.
# When Scott Haldeman's parents decided to emigrate from the United States to Australia, they had no idea how long it would take them to get there.
# Former South African President Nelson Mandela's son Wyn has died at the age of 85, his family says.
# Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla, has revealed that he once had an esoteric conversation with a bank executive.
# Maye Nkosi and her family are moving from South Africa to Canada.
# Tesla has raised three-million-dollar funding from venture capitalists Mohr Davidow.
# Elon Musk, founder of electric carmaker Tesla, has moved into his new headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
# Here’s a look back at some of the more unusual stories from the world of finance.
# Harris Fricker, one of Elon Musk’s first employees at Tesla Motors, has spoken out for the first time about his time at the electric car maker.
# A chronology of key events:
# Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of electric carmaker Tesla Motors, says he’s lucky to be alive after being diagnosed with malaria and viral meningitis.
# Buzz Aldrin, the first man to set foot on Mars, says Elon Musk’s plan to build a sewage-treatment plant on the surface of the Red Planet is “ridiculous.”
# A chronology of key events:
# SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has named former Boeing executive Gwynne Hollman as his new chief of staff.
# The world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is being demolished to make way for the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Abu Dhabi.
# A flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco was delayed for more than two hours after a passenger tried to take his glasses off.
# Former SpaceX chief executive Elon Hollman is the subject of a new book about his time at the company.
# Elon Musk, chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Motors, has invested $1bn in the company.
# Tesla boss Elon Musk sent an e-mail to one of his employees saying, “I want your head to hurt every night when you go to bed.”
# Elon Musk has settled his divorce with his wife, Justine, for an undisclosed sum.
# Justine Musk, the mother of Elon Musk’s two children, spoke to me for the first time about her relationship with the Tesla and SpaceX founder.
# Tesla founder Elon Musk has revealed details of his first meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Talulah.
# Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has revealed that he took his daughter, Riley, on a trip to the Grand Canyon.
# In the summer of 2002, Elon Musk announced that he would be launching his first Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
# Elon Musk, founder of Tesla Motors, has revealed that his company’s Falcon 9 rocket blew up during its first test flight in 2004.
# Elon Musk, founder of electric car company Tesla, has revealed that one of his employees sent him a letter of resignation after he found out he was gay.
# Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, has announced plans to build and launch rockets that can be reused.
# Blue Origin, the private rocket company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has hired former SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk as its chief technology officer.
# Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, have had a war of words about reusable rocket technology.
# SpaceX founder Elon Musk has revealed how he came up with the name Dragon.
# SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has been given the go-ahead to fly to the International Space Station.
# In our series of letters from African-American journalists, film-maker and columnist Ahmed Rashid looks at some of the challenges and rewards of being an African-American in Hollywood.
# Elon Musk's SpaceX has landed its unmanned Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on an ocean platform, after blasting off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
# Tesla boss Elon Musk has revealed the design of the company's new electric car, the Model 3.
# The US space agency’s ambitious plan to send astronauts to Mars has been described as “insane” and “clueless” by a former SpaceX investor.
# Elon Musk’s electric car company, Tesla Motors, has unveiled its first self-driving vehicle.
# Tesla’s new Model S electric car is the most fuel-efficient car in the world.
# Here’s a look back at some of the key moments that led up to the launch of Tesla’s first car, the Roadster.
# Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has revealed that he tried to hire Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as his chief executive.
# Here are some key details about the US government's role in the development of the world's largest solar farm, in Hawaii.
# Tesla Motors has agreed to sell most of its stake in energy storage firm Calico for $3bn to private equity firm Thoma Bravo.
# In an interview with the BBC, Tesla’s former chief executive, Elon Musk, and Tesla’s former vice president of manufacturing, Bob Lloyd, discuss the genesis of the electric car maker.
# Tesla’s chief executive Elon Musk is keeping a low profile at the electric car maker’s factory in Hawthorne, California, according to one of the company’s investors.
# Tesla’s new Model S is powered by a battery pack that’s been developed in-house by the company.
# Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, has revealed details of a secret meeting with Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai.
# Elon Musk, founder of electric carmaker Tesla Motors, has admitted that the company’s plans for a network of charging stations are behind schedule.
# In an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk discusses the company’s forthcoming Model S electric car.
# Elon Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla, has defended the company’s decision to open its own stores.
# Tesla’s chief executive, Glenn Straubel, says the company’s goal is to create a charging network that is free and ubiquitous.
# A Canadian man has become the first person to be granted permanent residency in the United States using his skills as an underwater hockey player.
# Tens of thousands of people have turned out for the annual St Patrick's Day parade in the Irish capital, Dublin.
# Here’s a look at some of the key numbers behind General Motors’ (GM) decision to sell its Chevrolet brand to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).
# In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Elon Musk, founder of private rocket company SpaceX, reveals the final design of his spaceship that will send humans to Mars in the 2030s.
# Elon Musk’s ex-wife, Kim Riley, has spoken out for the first time about her relationship with the Tesla founder.
# Elon Musk, the founder of electric car maker Tesla, has revealed that he fired one of his employees after she refused to take a two-week vacation.
# In our series of letters from African-American journalists, film-maker and columnist John Legend’s wife Tameka Riley reflects on her husband, Tesla founder Elon Musk.
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# Elon Musk’s former boss at PayPal, Peter Jurvetson, has compared Musk to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
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