Inside the tragic last months of ex-Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's life
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Read on for the reporting on former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's final months, tips on how to get a job in the Biden administration, and the rising stars of real estate.
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COVID-19 vaccines are expected to be approved by US regulators in the coming days. And as Shelby Livingston and Allana Akhtar reported, health systems and hospitals across the country are now gearing up to give the shots to their own workers.
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Tony Hsieh's final months
From Meghan Morris and Connor Perrett:
A fire truck and an ambulance whirred into one of Park City's tonier enclaves the Tuesday evening after Labor Day, summoned to action by an alarming report.
At a 9-bedroom estate, recently purchased by a newcomer to the picturesque ski town, there were "flames shooting into the air" and a hot air balloon was "going off," according to the fire department's logs.
It's not clear if something had gone wrong with the balloon, or what it was doing at the residential property on a Tuesday night - the report only notes that no one required medical attention and that emergency responders left after 45 minutes.
But five nights later they were back again, this time for reports of an "illegal burn" at the mansion, where they discovered propane heaters hidden in trees and a large stash of wood intended for an open fire. The mansion belonged to Tony Hsieh, the longtime CEO of internet ecommerce powerhouse Zappos.
For a period of several months during the summer of 2020, Hsieh's property was the site of extravagant parties that drew a crowd of techies, free-spirits, hangers-ons, and locals - and often complaints from neighbors.
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How to land a job in the Biden administration
From Robin Bravender:
So you want to go work for Joe Biden.
You're in luck. The president-elect has thousands of jobs to dole out inside the White House and federal agencies.
But you'll probably want to get moving quickly since the incoming team is anxious to get up to full strength as it races to replace outgoing Trump administration staffers with its own people. You're not the only one hoping to get a job on the new team, and you can expect stiff competition.
"There will be tens of thousands of people who are very excited about this administration and want to be a participant in it," says Katherine Archuleta, who led the Obama administration's Office of Personnel Management, the federal agency that manages government employees.
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- Brad Parscale starts talking. Trumpworld frets.
- Biden wants to move beyond the Trump era. But the Justice Department and New York state might not be so ready to play along.
- Don Jr. eyes a run for NRA chief. It's one more way the Trump family is making big plays to cement itself in GOP conservative politics for the next 4 years.
Rising stars of real estate
From Alex Nicoll, Dan Geiger, Libertina Brandt, and Natasha Solo-Lyons:
The pandemic has upended the real-estate industry, forcing offices and shops to reinvent themselves and causing millions of Americans to relocate or reconsider their home bases for work, financial, or personal reasons.
Against this backdrop, we're spotlighting professionals who are thriving, seizing opportunities despite, or because of, COVID-19's effects on commercial and residential real estate in the US.
These 30 young professionals stood out as the vanguard of the next generation in real estate, from prodigies who've risen through the ranks and innovated at established firms to startup founders looking to disrupt pockets of the sector with deeply traditional roots.
Read the full story here:
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- Jared Kushner's name is radioactive in real estate right now. Some developers and investors say they're avoiding deals with his family's company, while others report they're getting penalized for past partnerships.
- How Joe Biden's housing policy threatens real-estate investing
ICYMI: Inside Google's firing of a top AI researcher
On Wednesday, one of Google's top AI ethics leaders announced she had been fired. Observers were confused by the decision, but inside Google, tensions between Timnit Gebru and senior management had been building for days, Hugh Langley reported. Read the full story here:
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WATCH: How to get hired in private equity
Reed Alexander this week spoke with Matt Breitfelder, the global head of human capital at Apollo Global Management; Sara Diniz, vice president in human resources at Bain Capital; James Cherubim, head of talent acquisition at The Carlyle Group; and Anthony Keizner, co-managing partner at Odyssey Search Partners.
You can watch their conversation here:
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