Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman · 22 Nov 2016 · 602pp · 177,874 words
, Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen, Andy Grove, Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg—save a few lines for Irwin Jacobs, and add Qualcomm to the list of important companies you’ve barely heard of. Qualcomm is to mobile phones what Intel and Microsoft together were to desktops
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follow-ups with both for me to fully understand what they had each helped to create, and I am extremely grateful for their tutoring. Qualcomm’s cofounder Irwin Jacobs did the same on my two visits to his campus. He, his son Paul, and their whole team were enormously generous with their time
All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
400 members5 and what comes to mind are tycoons such as computer titan Michael Dell, America Online’s Steve Case, eBay’s Pierre Omidyar, and Qualcomm’s Irwin Jacobs—all former winners of Ernst & Young awards, all high-tech billionaires who made fortunes on flashy, brainy businesses. Then there are the media mavens
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$8.5 Oil, gas Antipoverty Kirk Kerkorian $0.7 $9.0 Investments Humanitarian Bernard Marcus $0.65 $1.9 Home Depot Brain disorders Irwin & Joan Jacobs $0.58 $1.7 Qualcomm Culture Pierre & Pam Omidyar $0.58 $7.7 eBay Microfinance investing Shelby White** $0.5 $0.75('02) Investments Arts, humanities H
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of many other Forbes 400 members, including those of Dell’s Michael and Susan Dell; Wal-Mart’s Walton family; Jerri-Ann and Gary Jacobs (son of Qualcomm founder, Irwin Jacobs); Donald and Doris Fisher, founders of retailer the Gap; and others. But results of spending30 to create smaller schools remain mixed. Graduation
Frommer's Portable San Diego
by Mark Hiss · 2 Nov 2007 · 195pp · 70,193 words
Symphony In 2002, enduring financial stability arrived for the San Diego Symphony with the announcement of a $120-million bequest by Joan and Irwin Jacobs (founder and CEO of Qualcomm). The gift has allowed the organization to lure top talent, including music director Jahja Ling and principal pops conductor Marvin Hamlisch. The symphony
Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America
by David Callahan · 9 Aug 2010
attracted financial support from Google’s cofounders and CEO; Gap chairman Robert Fisher; Nathaniel Simons, the son of hedge fund manager James Simons; Jeff Skoll; Qualcomm chairman Irwin Jacobs; Warner Bros. president Alan Horn; and John Doerr. The effort failed, but that didn’t stop another super-rich environmentalist from backing another clean
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CEO of Yahoo; the venture capitalist John Doerr; the billionaire and Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla; Jeff Skoll, the cofounder of eBay; and Irwin Jacobs, the chairman of Qualcomm. c08.indd 188 5/11/10 6:24:55 AM left-coast money 189 Proposition 87 didn’t fly with voters, but serious Silicon