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<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival</a> is one of the world's most prestigious events which will be live from Oct 19-23.</li><li>While nobel laureates, some of the biggest political and corporate icons will provide thought leadership, it's a great platform to network with CXOs from around the world.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival 2020</a> is presented by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" data-type="tilCustomLink">AWS</a>.</li><li>Register for the Global <keyword id="9732024" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="trends-festival">Trends Festival</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsform_2020.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">here</a>.</li></ul> Lord Adair Turner has held many roles -- that of a former financial regulator, an economics professor, and of course a part of the House of Lords. However, he calls himself a technocrat, and true to his word; he has been building consensus amongst industry and governments for a zero-carbon emission society. Concerning India, he has dispelled many myths surrounding a slowing economy and investment in a sustainable future. He believes that going green will not add any significant excess pressure financially for governments and <a href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/davos-world-economic-forum-2020/davos-2020-adair-turner-says-india-shouldnt-tell-itself-silly-stories-about-demographic-dividend">industry alike</a>. Turner, who is known for a large scale pension reform in the UK, has also been expressing concern over the lack of sufficient jobs to engage the working-age population of Indians in the future. According to him, working towards a zero-carbon economy can kill two birds at one shot -- create sustainability and create jobs, especially in a country with many young people. He has been advocating recycling of steel and reducing photovoltaics' price to bring green energy on par with coal production as some of the measures to lower emissions. He expressed confidence that green energy costs will equal fossil fuel generation in <a href="https://www.lombardodier.com/contents/corporate-news/corporate/2019/april/lord-adair-turner-on-how-urgency.html">about a decade or so</a>. At the Global Trends Festival 2020, <keyword id="305183" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lord-Turner">Lord Turner</keyword> will discuss the importance of industry, policy-makers, and the government to work together and create a sustainable roadmap. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-kiran-mazumdar-shaw-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020-speak-about-unlocking-indias-suppressed-potential/articleshow/78642685.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Kiran Mazumdar Shaw at the Global Trends Festival 2020, speak about unlocking India's suppressed potential</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hear-and-learn-from-byju-raveendran-the-man-who-made-online-classes-fun-years-before-covid-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78641694.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hear and learn from Byju Raveendran, the man who made online classes fun, years before COVID, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/guenter-butschek-will-speak-about-the-much-needed-electric-push-towards-a-greener-future-at-the-global-trends-festival/articleshow/78642212.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Guenter Butschek will speak about the much needed electric push towards a greener future at the Global Trends Festival</a>

Catch Lord Adair Turner, the technocrat who is devising ways and means to move towards a zero-carbon economy, at the Global Trends Festival 2020

INTERVIEW: Nouriel Roubini talks about the future of global economy post COVID-19

<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival</a> is one of the world's most prestigious events which will be live from Oct 19-23.</li><li>While nobel laureates, some of the biggest political and corporate icons will provide thought leadership, it's a great platform to network with CXOs from around the world.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival 2020</a> is presented by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" data-type="tilCustomLink">AWS</a>.</li><li>Register for the Global Trends Festival <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsform_2020.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">here</a>.</li></ul> An anecdote goes that when <keyword id="6354955" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kumar-Mangalam-Birla">Kumar Mangalam Birla</keyword> was three and a half years old, a religious leader had foretold his destiny — how he would be the best that the Birla clan has ever seen and lead the companies to greater heights. It might have sounded extraordinary to his grandmother Sarla Devi, especially during the legendary Basant Kumar Birla's reign. Yet, when he took over the business as a 28-year-old, he brought in changes that were never thought to be possible in a group that existed three generations before him. The most significant mindset change he brought was bringing in meritocracy and retiring vice presidents who were 60 years old. There were 350 of them! After that, he modernised the age-old financial reporting business model and consolidated it into the metals-to-telecom and financial services empire that stands tall today. The results are more than evident; these very businesses' value has grown 25 times. Kumar Mangalam Birla believes that failure is not fatal; it is inevitable. And the lack of failure suggests that one is only not taking enough risks. One must never fear failure but instead learn from it. And there lies the success mantra for any business to thrive. The media-shy billionaire is widely known for his global vision, and he holds a little known record of sorts. Kumar Mangalam Birla has been the architect of over 40 acquisitions both nationally and internationally. No other Indian multinational company has managed this feat. These acquisitions added value and catapulted the businesses to a leadership position in their respective sectors. The group's grandest purchase to date remains the $6 billion acquisition of Novelis by Hindalco in 2007. Over time, the asset has yielded dividends that allowed Hindalco to veer towards high margin products in a volatile business like metals. So what is on the coveted investment checklist of this successful billionaire? On the global stage, Kumar Mangalam Birla will share some secrets behind his success at the Global Trends Festival 2020. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hear-from-the-fashion-icon-sabyasachi-on-the-concept-of-luxury-and-the-future-of-fashion-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78662238.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hear from the fashion icon Sabyasachi, on the concept of luxury and the future of fashion, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-lord-adair-turner-the-technocrat-who-is-devising-ways-and-means-to-move-towards-a-zero-carbon-economy-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78661710.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Lord Adair Turner, the technocrat who is devising ways and means to move towards a zero-carbon economy, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-kiran-mazumdar-shaw-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020-speak-about-unlocking-indias-suppressed-potential/articleshow/78642685.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Kiran Mazumdar Shaw at the Global Trends Festival 2020, speak about unlocking India's suppressed potential</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hear-and-learn-from-byju-raveendran-the-man-who-made-online-classes-fun-years-before-covid-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78641694.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hear and learn from Byju Raveendran, the man who made online classes fun, years before COVID, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a>

Kumar Mangalam Birla will share the secrets behind successful acquisitions at the Global Trends Festival 2020

<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival</a> is one of the world's most prestigious events which will be live from Oct 19-23.</li><li>While nobel laureates, some of the biggest political and corporate icons will provide thought leadership, it's a great platform to network with CXOs from around the world.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival 2020</a> is presented by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" data-type="tilCustomLink">AWS</a>.</li><li>Register for the <keyword id="10088455" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="global-trends-festival">Global Trends Festival</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsform_2020.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">here</a>.</li></ul> One thing binds the Netflix series 'The Kissing Booth,' Harper Collins' book series 'Dinner with the vampire' and the 2019 romantic film 'After.' They were all first published on Wattpad, founded by <keyword id="7421771" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Allen-Lau">Allen Lau</keyword> and Ivan Yuen. The pair started what was then supposed to be 'YouTube' for the written word to bring people to jot down ideas and democratize a literary agent's job. Interestingly, Wattpad was formed in the same year that Google purchased YouTube, and the pair who had been working with startups had hoped for early success. After all, the world was ripe for it. It wasn't. A year later, in 2007, they earned $2 from Google as their ad earnings. However, soon they attracted the attention of new-age and young writers and brought with them their audience, which swelled to <a href="https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/the-content-factory-how-u-of-t-alumnus-allen-lau-is-disrupting-the-way-books-movies-and-tv-shows-are-made/">70 million monthly users</a> as of today. Since then, book publishers have been sieving through the 'content factory' (with over half a billion uploads) to scour for the next big hit! But, Lau decided not to let their revenue model slip through their fingers. They have their own book imprint now, along with a paid model for their users. But that's not all. They have access to billions of data points on what people want to read and like to read and enough information to catch young readers' pulse. In a way, Lau has changed the way stories are told. At the Global Trends event, Lau will speak about the future of storytelling. The pandemic has unleashed a new wave of content consumption and has affected audience preferences. Lau will share insights from his own experiences on the emerging new formats of content creation and consumption. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-lord-adair-turner-the-technocrat-who-is-devising-ways-and-means-to-move-towards-a-zero-carbon-economy-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78661710.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Lord Adair Turner, the technocrat who is devising ways and means to move towards a zero-carbon economy, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-kiran-mazumdar-shaw-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020-speak-about-unlocking-indias-suppressed-potential/articleshow/78642685.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Kiran Mazumdar Shaw at the Global Trends Festival 2020, speak about unlocking India's suppressed potential</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hear-and-learn-from-byju-raveendran-the-man-who-made-online-classes-fun-years-before-covid-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78641694.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hear and learn from Byju Raveendran, the man who made online classes fun, years before COVID, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a>

Catch Allen Lau talk about ushering in the new age of storytelling at the Global Trends Festival 2020

<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival</a> is one of the world's most prestigious events which will be live from Oct 19-23.</li><li>While nobel laureates, some of the biggest political and corporate icons will provide thought leadership, it's a great platform to network with CXOs from around the world.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival 2020</a> is presented by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" data-type="tilCustomLink">AWS</a>.</li><li>Register for the <keyword id="10088455" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="global-trends-festival">Global Trends Festival</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsform_2020.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">here</a>.</li></ul> From the most famous actress in the country and the uber-rich to the middle-class professional, they all have one thing in common - every woman wants to be a ‘<keyword id="8264" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sabyasachi">Sabyasachi</keyword> bride.’ The term has been coined by this legendary designer’s fans for whom his clothes have become a symbol of aspiration. The creative genius from Kolkata, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, has changed how Indians dress or want to dress. And from his stunning collection launched at India Fashion Week in 2002 to working on a global collaboration with the Swedish retail giant H&amp;M this year, he has set new trends and carved his own path, filled with accolades. Sabyasachi now heads a multi-million dollar enterprise. And in time, the 45-year-old designer aspires to build the brand into the <a href="https://www.fortuneindia.com/people/in-sabyasachi-mukherjees-lab-of-luxury/103095">‘Chanel of India</a>.’ Sabyasachi has <a href="https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/people/sabyasachi-mukherjee-king-of-indias-bridal-market">already launched a couture jewellery line</a> and soon plans to expand into shoes, perfumes, and more. Synonymous with ‘bridal wear,’ this multiple awards winning designer is also known for introducing many contemporary clothing styles for men and women alike. And they all have a common thread, what he describes as an ‘Indian soul.’ Sabyasachi, who calls himself a textile designer instead of a fashion designer, has also made headlines by changing his marketing strategy - from fashion shows to Instagram. Over three million of his followers get a glimpse of his designs and prices, which strike a chord with young millennial Indians. At the Global Trends Festival 2020, Sabyasachi will talk about the future of fashion, what luxury means to him, and how to change Indians’ mindset from saving culture to splurging. He is an authority on the subject as he inspired many young women to diligently save money only to spend on his gorgeous lehengas for their special day. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-lord-adair-turner-the-technocrat-who-is-devising-ways-and-means-to-move-towards-a-zero-carbon-economy-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78661710.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Lord Adair Turner, the technocrat who is devising ways and means to move towards a zero-carbon economy, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-kiran-mazumdar-shaw-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020-speak-about-unlocking-indias-suppressed-potential/articleshow/78642685.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Kiran Mazumdar Shaw at the Global Trends Festival 2020, speak about unlocking India's suppressed potential</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hear-and-learn-from-byju-raveendran-the-man-who-made-online-classes-fun-years-before-covid-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78641694.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hear and learn from Byju Raveendran, the man who made online classes fun, years before COVID, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a>

Hear from the fashion icon Sabyasachi, on the concept of luxury and the future of fashion, at the Global Trends Festival 2020

<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival</a> is one of the world's most prestigious events which will be live from Oct 19-23.</li><li>While nobel laureates, some of the biggest political and corporate icons will provide thought leadership, it's a great platform to network with CXOs from around the world.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink">Global Trends Festival 2020</a> is presented by <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" data-type="tilCustomLink">AWS</a>.</li><li>Register for the <keyword id="10088455" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="global-trends-festival">Global Trends Festival</keyword> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsform_2020.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">here</a>.</li></ul> During the last fifteen years, <keyword id="685487" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Spotify">Spotify</keyword> has conquered the entire world. Currently, more than 300 million people use the app. There is no doubt that the Swedes’ success would not be possible without the smartphone revolution that took place around the globe during the last few years. <keyword id="10110553" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="sten-garmark">Sten Garmark</keyword> - Spotify’s VP of Product - knows that this is not enough. He wants the music from the app to be available on all the home appliances. Spotify’s “Ubiquity” Creators of the app that delivers the audio content know that smartphones are not enough anymore, the competition in the form of Apple Music never sleeps. They want to be even closer to their users. In May last year, Sten Garmark said that delivering audio content became more intuitive and seamless, and the ubiquity strategy refers to providing a totally seamless experience with Spotify. - In other words, Spotify is at the users’ fingertips all the time. Our services are available while driving or working out, we are always there. The final stage of our ubiquity will be reached when Spotify adjusts to multiple devices surrounding the users, additionally when the app will get to know the users well enough, they would not need to search for music or podcasts suitable for a given moment - all that will be timely provided - says Garmark. Garmark indicated that the strategy was based mainly on smartphone users as they are principle Spotify clients. However, this is just a starting point, the Swedes want to allow the users to listen to Spotify’s content in totally new circumstances. In Sten Garmark’s opinion, the company needs to implement a technical integration with all the devices surrounding the users, e.g. voice-activated speakers. - We need to provide simple solutions for everyone: our users, partners and artists. It must not be too complicated. We want to decrease the amount of effort for the user to navigate the app in order to allow also the less technologically savvy users to enjoy it. Let's remember that currently we need to take five steps to navigate Spotify. The question is: can we remove those steps totally? - Garmark says. Spotify underlines that they want to deliver a “turnkey app”. The objective of the changes is to diminish the time necessary to navigate and find favorite content. In 2013 the company launch Spotify Connect. It is a form of a remote control to play music and podcasts on your TV, game consoles and speakers. It allows to stream music on multiple devices inside and outside of your home. Spotify Connect is available on 2000 products of 200 brands. The service is available to all users, not only Premium. The way it works is also easy. One just needs to open the app on a phone or laptop, select the title of the song, and then just chose another device. Everything just one click away. - After pairing your device with Spotify connect you will never ask your wife again: where's the remote? - Sten Garmark summarizes. Garmark himself is also responsible for patenting over 20 solutions. One of the latest patented solutions consists of content selection based on physiological aspects. The app uses at least one body measurement (e.g. heart rate) and selects content accordingly. Another patented solution is playlist creation based on the rhythm of selected songs. This is how the app knows what the user likes to listen to. Spotify conquest Spotify was created in 2006. In the second quarter of the current year, the number of users got close to 300 million. One of the aspects that could have attracted more people where the podcasts. This was something that differentiated the Swedish company from Apple and Amazon which also offer audio content solutions, but this is only their additional activity. At the beginning of 2019, Spotify acquired Gimlet and Anchor - service providers that specialize in podcasts. The objective of this acquisition was to supplement the company's portfolio and convert Spotify into one of the biggest podcast producers. Gimlet contributed with one of the best podcast studios, and Anchor with a platform for podcast creators. – Those acquisitions significantly accelerated our path to becoming the leading global audio platform, which provides users all over the world with access to best podcasts as well as improving the quality of our content - says Daniel Ek, Spotify CEO. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hear-from-the-fashion-icon-sabyasachi-on-the-concept-of-luxury-and-the-future-of-fashion-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78662238.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hear from the fashion icon Sabyasachi, on the concept of luxury and the future of fashion, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-lord-adair-turner-the-technocrat-who-is-devising-ways-and-means-to-move-towards-a-zero-carbon-economy-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78661710.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Lord Adair Turner, the technocrat who is devising ways and means to move towards a zero-carbon economy, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/catch-kiran-mazumdar-shaw-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020-speak-about-unlocking-indias-suppressed-potential/articleshow/78642685.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Catch Kiran Mazumdar Shaw at the Global Trends Festival 2020, speak about unlocking India's suppressed potential</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/trendsfestival" data-type="tilCustomLink"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hear-and-learn-from-byju-raveendran-the-man-who-made-online-classes-fun-years-before-covid-at-the-global-trends-festival-2020/articleshow/78641694.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hear and learn from Byju Raveendran, the man who made online classes fun, years before COVID, at the Global Trends Festival 2020</a>

Watch Sten Garmark from Spotify speak about his strategy of Spotify’s “Ubiquity”at the Global Trends Festival 2020

Insider Today: The unstoppable Sam Altman

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="39150" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kanye-West">Kanye West</keyword> says he won't release any new <keyword id="6354530" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="music">music</keyword> until he is freed from his contracts with music publishers Sony and Universal.</li><li>In a series of tweets on Monday night, the rapper expressed vague frustration with the "industry" and fellow rappers "dissing each other on labels we don't own."</li><li>"I'm not gonna watch my people be enslaved," he wrote. "I'm putting my life on the line for my people. The music industry and the NBA are modern day slave ships. I'm the new Moses."</li><li>On Tuesday morning, West suggested he's exploring legal action to get out of his contracts and potentially buy back his masters.</li></ul>Kanye West says he won't release any new music until he is freed from his contracts with music publishers Sony and Universal."I'm not putting no more music out till I'm done with my contract with Sony and Universal," he wrote in a now-deleted tweet. "On God … in Jesus name … come and get me."The declaration ignited a series of tweets on Monday evening, in which West expressed vague frustration with the "industry," demanded a "publicly apology" from Drake and J Cole, compared himself to Nat Turner, and encouraged fellow rappers to stop <a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1305667791089840128?s=20">"dissing each other on labels we don't own."</a>"Let's stop killing each other ... let's show God that we are Gods people ... my ego gets the best of me too... God doesn't measure us by money in his kingdom ... let's love each other... I love my brothers and I miss my friends ... real talk," he wrote.West also called himself "the 2nd richest black man in America," but later deleted that tweet and distanced himself from the claim."I deleted that tweet about riches... the wealth is in our love of family and our brothers and our service to God ... let's rise up... let's communicate," he wrote.In perhaps his boldest and most confusing tweet, West demanded to see "everybody's contracts at Universal and Sony," comparing the publishing companies to slave owners."I'm not gonna watch my people be enslaved," he wrote. "I'm putting my life on the line for my people. The music industry and the NBA are modern day slave ships. I'm the new Moses."West signed a seven-year deal with EMI, which is owned by Sony/ATV, in 2003. The contract was extended in 2014.The contract grants EMI control over the rights to West's music and, according to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/kanye-west-is-contractually-barred-retiring-1191995?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referralreferral" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, forbids him from retiring.West's contract stipulates: "At no time during the Term will you seek to retire as a songwriter, recording artist or producer or take any extended hiatus during which you are not actively pursuing Your musical career in the same basic manner as You have pursued such career to date."These documents were made public when West moved to sue EMI in January 2019, claiming his deal is a form of "servitude." He was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kanye-west-sued-his-record-label-breach-contract-n981061">counter-sued for breach of contract</a>, and the dispute was settled in January 2020, according to <a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/legal-and-management/8548177/kanye-west-emi-settlement-agreement">Billboard</a>.On Tuesday morning, West suggested he's exploring legal action to get out of his contracts and potentially buy back his masters: "No one from Universal or Sony has responded so it's Go time."The 43-year-old father of four posted a text exchange with an unidentified adviser, who suggested that Sony and Universal have not fully supported West and could be sued for breach of contract."If we went that route we would litigate and ask for your masters as part of a settlement," the adviser wrote. "This is a high risk but high reward strategy."The adviser also said they could "look into buying" the rights to West's masters — but claimed, without citing evidence, that his music "would cost a lot more" than <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift's</a> six-album catalog, which <a href="https://www.insider.com/taylor-swift-angry-scooter-braun-buying-old-music-explainer-2019-7">Scooter Braun acquired in a $300 million purchase</a> of Big Machine Records.Finally, the adviser proposed a "radical" joint venture with Universal, rather than ending West's contract entirely.West ended the exchange by saying he's "not open to any form of business with Universal or Sony."<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-mental-health-bipolar-statement-2020-7">Kim Kardashian breaks silence on Kanye West's mental health and asks for 'compassion and empathy'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/kanye-west-god-taylor-swift-vmas-reactions-memes-2020-9">Kanye West says God wanted him to interrupt Taylor Swift at the VMAs, and fans are hilariously offended on behalf of the Lord</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/scooter-braun-said-he-bought-taylor-swift-instagram-reactions-tumblr-2019-7">Fans are furious that Scooter Braun posted that he 'bought' Taylor Swift, and the pop star has been quietly liking their angry posts</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/best-albums-released-this-year-2020-4">The 14 best albums of 2020, so far</a></li></ul>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Oscar-winner <keyword id="6528947" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sean-connery">Sean Connery</keyword> has died at the age of 90, the BBC reported.</li><li>The Scottish actor, born Thomas Sean Connery in 1930, starred in over 50 movies spanning his more than 60-year career.</li><li>Best known for playing James <keyword id="6368266" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="bond">Bond</keyword>, Connery played the debonair secret agent in seven films spanning from 1962 to 1983. </li></ul>Oscar-winner Sean Connery has died at the age of 90, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-54761824?__twitter_impression=true">the BBC reported on Saturday</a>.Best known for playing James Bond, Connery played the debonair secret agent in seven films spanning from 1962 to 1983. The Scottish actor, born Thomas Sean Connery in 1930, starred in over 50 movies spanning his more than 60-year career. Aside from playing 007, Connery starred in 1964's "Marnie," 1989's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," and 1990's "The Hunt for Red October." He won a best-supporting Academy Award in for 1987's "The Untouchables." In a 1987 interview, Barbara Walters described Connery as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_SFCvJAsJM">someone who didn't try to be sexy,</a> something which made him all the more attractive to fans. Not only was the actor named the <a href="https://www.insider.com/who-has-been-sexiest-man-alive-people-2018-11#1989-sean-connery-5">sexiest man by People at the age of 59</a>, but a decade later, Connery was named the sexiest man of the century <a href="https://www.apnews.com/9a54f3b57cfc9778b7fdb5f94bcb29f3">by New Woman magazine</a>.While he's best known as Bond, there was a time where the Edinburgh native almost didn't become an actor. It's not something the rather private Connery even would have considered doing. <h2>Life-changing decision to become an actor</h2>Connery grew up from humble beginnings in Scotland left school <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_SFCvJAsJM">when he was 13</a> and worked various jobs, including that of a milkman to support his family before joining the Royal Navy <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/world/sean-connery-fast-facts/index.html">in 1947</a>. Connery stayed there until he was discharged <a href="https://www.seanconnery.com/biography/">three years later due to a stomach ulcer</a>. Back in Edinburgh, he took up many different jobs, ranging from coffin polisher to lifeguard. He also took up bodybuilding and traveled to London to participate in <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/sean-connery-in-mr-universe-competition">1953's Mr. Universe</a>. <div type="image" title="sean connery mr universe" height="2109" width="3000" msid="78970553" hostid="261"></div>That led to some modeling gigs and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_SFCvJAsJM">part touring with "South Pacific."</a> While traveling, some of the cast played a local soccer team. According to the Express, Connery wasn't that bad and the manager of Manchester United <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/53528/Connery-s-tough-love">offered him a contract on the team</a>. Though he loved the sport, the then 23-year-old Connery didn't think a soccer career would be practical and decided to stick with acting. "I realized that a top-class footballer could be over the hill by the age of 30 and I was already 23," Connery said, <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/53528/Connery-s-tough-love">according to Express</a>. "I decided to be an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves."It wound up being a life-altering choice.<h2>Becoming Bond</h2><div type="image" title="james bond sean connery " height="1801" width="2401" msid="78970555" hostid="261"></div>Connery <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_SFCvJAsJM">told Barbara Walters in 1987</a> he never had any intentions of becoming an actor. At the time, he was receiving about $15 per week (£12). But after a year of doing "South Pacific," Connery was calling himself just that as he took up reading Shakespeare and other works at the library during his free time.Through his work with "South Pacific," he started getting roles as extras. His first film role was in the 1955 musical "Lilacs in the Spring." He had bit roles in several TV series like "Dixon of Dock Green" and "The Jack Benny Program" before landing a major role in 1958's "Another Time, Another Place" with Lana Turner and Disney's 1959 film "Darby O'Gill and the Little People."<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/10/fifty-years-of-james-bond">According to Vanity Fair</a>, it was that Disney film which helped him land Bond. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-plaXh8N5E">interview with "60 Minutes,"</a> Connery said Cary Grant was creator Ian Fleming's first choice for the role; however, the actor was too expensive for the film. <div type="image" title="dr no james bond poster 1962" height="2121" width="2829" msid="78970560" hostid="261"></div>In the same interview, Connery said he didn't feel his original meeting for Bond was successful. But producer Cubby Broccoli showed his wife footage of Connery in the Disney live-action flick <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/10/fifty-years-of-james-bond">and she immediately saw him as Bond</a>. Fleming wasn't thrilled with the choice, according to Connery."I never got introduced to Fleming until I was well into the <keyword id="6356021" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="movie">movie</keyword> but I know he was not happy with me as the choice," he later told <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/66876/Sean-Connery-Snob-Ian-Fleming-didn-t-want-me-to-play-Bond">Melvin Brigg on the "South Bank Show" in 2008</a>.<div type="image" title="daniela bianchi sean connery james bond from russia with love" height="2967" width="3000" msid="78970565" hostid="261"></div>"What was it he called me, or told somebody? That I was an over-developed stunt man. He never said it to me," Connery added. "When I did eventually meet him he was very interesting, erudite, and a snob – a real snob."Connery starred as the first Bond in 1962's "Dr. No." He then starred as the spy in four consecutive movies including "From Russia With Love," "Goldfinger," "Thunderball," and "You Only Live Twice." He later returned to play Bond in 1971's "Diamonds are Forever" and reprised the character one last time in 1983's "Never Say Never Again."<h2>The Bond legacy and beyond</h2><div type="image" title="sean connery 1987" height="1994" width="3000" msid="78970567" hostid="261"></div>While the Bond movies made Connery famous, and somewhat of a sex symbol, they aren't something he remembered with absolute fondness."The films got more and more difficult for me to make because they were never well planned and they were always being rewritten," Connery <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_SFCvJAsJM">told Barbara Walters in 1987</a>. His sudden worldwide popularity made him the object of paparazzi. It was something the rather private Connery never cared much for, saying in multiple interviews he disliked the press hounding him in public. "You can't imagine going to a country like Japan and to have 500 photographers wherever you went," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-plaXh8N5E">Connery told "60 Minutes."</a> "Even in the toilet, putting the camera under the door. Unbelievable."Connery reportedly quit the Bond movies after "You Only Live Twice" because <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/817011/James-Bond-007-Sean-Connery-quit-You-Only-Live-Twice-50th-anniversary">of a feud with Broccoli and his salary</a>.While working on Bond, Connery also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's 1964 film <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058329/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_60">"Marnie"</a> and 1974's <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071877/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_43">"Murder on the Orient Express."</a> He also played Robin Hood in 1976's <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075147/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39">"Robin and Marian."</a><div type="image" title="sean connery wife 2003" height="811" width="1081" msid="78970569" hostid="261"></div>During this time, Connery married actress Diane Cilento in 1962, with whom he had a son, Jason. After the two divorced in 1973, Connery married his second wife, painter Micheline Roquebrune two years later. Roquebrune famously painted Connery in a yellow bathrobe, which hung in their home. The painting could be seen in a 1987 interview with Barbara Walters.<h2>Academy Award winner and Indiana Jones</h2><div type="image" title="sean connery oscar 1988" height="3000" width="1942" msid="78970576" hostid="261"></div>Connery's role in 1987's "The Untouchables" landed him his only Oscar for supporting actor. The actor received a standing ovation when he accepted the award at the 60th annual Academy Awards."Patience truly is a virtue," said Connery when taking the stage. From the late '80s to early '90s, Connery starred in some of his most recognizable roles aside from Bond. He played Harrison Ford's father in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," co-starred alongside Alec Baldwin in another spy thriller, "The Hunt for Red October," and voiced the dragon in "Dragonheart."<div type="image" title="harrison ford sean connery indiana jones and the last crusade" height="3000" width="1988" msid="78970582" hostid="261"></div>In 1996, he was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmHaXJjZKL4">awarded the Cecil B DeMille Award</a> and recounted how a friend once told him to lose his accent if he wanted to make it as an actor. He obviously didn't listen."A number of decades ago, when I started in this business, I was told, by someone who seemed to know what he was talking about, that I should take lessons to erase permanently so I could take parts without wearing a kilt and so that the American audiences could understand what the hell I was saying," Connery told the crowd to laughs.<div type="image" title="sean connery afi life achievement" height="3095" width="2250" msid="78970585" hostid="261"></div>But Connery was making a point that it didn't matter what background anyone came from in order to be a success in Hollywood. They just needed to be able to engage viewers in the stories they were telling."I think if actors and actresses are good at what they do and if you, the audience, are affected by the stories we helped to tell, then that's the real reward," he continued. "Truthfully, it's the stuff in between the punches, the shootings, and the car crashes that really count... In other words, I prefer my audiences stirred, not shaken."<h2>Passing on "The Lord of the Rings" and retiring from Hollywood</h2><div type="image" title="sean connery 2007" height="2003" width="3000" msid="78970589" hostid="261"></div>Connery had the opportunity to play Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" franchise, but turned it down. "I never understood it. I read the book. I read the script. I saw the movie. I still don't understand it," Connery said, <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/19/lord-of-the-rings-sean-connery-gandalf_n_2157431.html">according to the Huffington Post</a>.The role was played by Sir Ian McKellen. The "LOTR" trilogy grossed more than $2.9 billion worldwide and spawned a prequel series. A <a href="https://www.tvguide.com/news/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-spoilers-premiere-date-everything-to-know/">TV series at Amazon</a> is currently in the works. Instead, Connery starred in the 2003 adaptation of "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," a film which had its difficulties behind the scenes. According to <keyword id="4578" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="entertainment">Entertainment</keyword> Weekly, Connery and director Stephen Norrington "<a href="https://ew.com/article/2002/11/22/behind-scenes-battles-plague-connerys-latest/">butted egos over virtually every element of the production.</a>" The film, which was supposed to launch a franchise, flopped with <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/league_of_extraordinary_gentlemen">poor reviews</a> and <a href="https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=leagueofextraordinarygentlemen.htm">$179 million worldwide</a>.The comic-book adaptation was his last live-action film.<div type="image" title="league of extraordinary gentlemen" height="1190" width="800" msid="78970595" hostid="261"></div>Connery <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/2430901/exclusive-sean-connery-confirms-retirement-status/">retired from acting</a> not long after <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4Z1BXALdwI">accepting the American Film Institute lifetime achievement award</a> in 2006. Though he later voiced characters in a video game and in a 2012 animated movie, Connery was done on screen.Not even Steven Spielberg could get him to return for a small part in the fourth "Indiana Jones" movie. According to the actor, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sean-connery-turned-down-indiana-jones-4-because-role-was-small-1075674">the part was too small.</a>In 2011, his close friend Michael Caine, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8723343/Sean-Connery-will-never-star-in-a-film-again-says-Michael-Caine.html">reiterated Connery's retirement</a>, saying Connery would never do another movie because of the roles he was being offered. "The movie business retired him because he didn't want to play small parts about old men and they weren't offering him any young parts in romantic leads," Caine told the Telegraph.Connery is survived by his second wife, painter Micheline Roquebrune, who he has been married to since 1975. Connery also has a son, Jason Connery, from a first marriage.<a href="https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/never-say-never-but-connery-ends-career-1-1402705"></a>

Sean Connery, Oscar winner and James Bond actor, dead at 90

Hello!Welcome to this weekly roundup of stories from Insider's <keyword id="6355515" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="business">Business</keyword> co-Editor in Chief Matt Turner. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/4np/insider-weekly">Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Sunday.</a>What we're going over today:<ul><li>Billionaires like <keyword id="45830" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Bill-Gates">Bill Gates</keyword> and <keyword id="6358963" type="DEFINITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Warren-Buffett">Warren Buffett</keyword> pledged half their wealth to charity -<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giving-pledge-bill-gates-warren-buffettt-billionaires-tax-break-2021-5"> but some are moving slow</a>.</li><li>Amazon is planning a new brand that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-diagnostics-new-brand-home-medical-tests-covid-sti-genomics-2021-5">offers at-home medical tests for COVID-19.</a></li><li>The secret life of Ian Osborne, a shadowy SPAC cofounder who <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-ian-osborne-cofounder-chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-hedosophia-spac-2021-5">has built the ultimate black book of billionaires.</a></li><li>One of the hedge-fund industry's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lone-pine-mala-gaonkar-profile-mandel-team-performance-foundation-arts-2021-5">most interesting characters</a>.</li></ul><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giving-pledge-bill-gates-warren-buffettt-billionaires-tax-break-2021-5"></a>What's trending this morning:<ul><li>Documents show how taxpayers are paying for Trump's postpresidential office: Expenses include everything <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-office-stephen-miller-taxpayer-money-2021-5">from printer toner to Stephen Miller's salary</a>.</li><li>Law firms scramble for talent: Kirkland &amp; Ellis has offered up to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kirkland-ellis-offered-junior-lawyers-signing-bonuses-250k-big-law-2021-5">$250,000 signing bonuses to young lawyers amid nonstop M&amp;A and capital-markets work</a>.</li><li>The 29 fastest-growing biotech companies: They hired hundreds of new workers in 2020 and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/list-fastest-growing-biotech-companies-2021-5">grew by at least 50%.</a></li><li>Jack Abraham is turning Wynwood into the heart of Miami's tech scene: The VC founder planned a one-week Miami trip with a group of friends last June. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/miami-tech-hub-history-silicon-valley-florida-wynwood-jack-abraham-2021-5">He never left.</a></li><li>'Bring your whole self to work' may create more problems than it solves for employees. Here's how <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bring-your-whole-self-to-work-doesnt-promote-inclusion-experts-say-2021-5">companies can really promote inclusion.</a></li></ul><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giving-pledge-bill-gates-warren-buffettt-billionaires-tax-break-2021-5">Billionaires who pledged half their wealth to charity are moving slow - and still getting massive tax breaks.</a></h3>Some of America's richest families signed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giving-pledge-bill-gates-warren-buffettt-billionaires-tax-break-2021-5">the Giving Pledge,</a> a public promise initiated by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to give at least half of their wealth to charitable causes - but many have been slow to make good on their promise:Death was the Giving Pledge deadline. You could give half your money away beforehand, or you could leave it to charity in your will. Mark Zuckerberg, who at age 26 was among the second group of Giving Pledge signers, made clear that he did not intend to wait nearly that long."People wait until late in their career to give back," Zuckerberg said in a Giving Pledge press release. "But why wait when there is so much to be done?"But waiting, it turns out, is precisely what Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan have done. During its first five years, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative handed out a total of $2.7 billion in grants - roughly 6% of their wealth at the time they made their pledge. Zuckerberg is not the only signatory to take things slow. Elon Musk, who signed the pledge in 2012, has donated only $100 million so far - less one-tenth of 1% of his current net worth. Read our full report here:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giving-pledge-bill-gates-warren-buffettt-billionaires-tax-break-2021-5">Bill Gates and Warren Buffett got 211 billionaires to pledge half their wealth to charity. But some are moving slow - and still getting massive tax breaks.</a></li></ul>Also read:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jamie-dimon-ceos-george-floyd-is-changing-means-business-leader-2021-5">'I was screaming': Top CEOs reflect on the shocking death of George Floyd one year ago and how it changed their perception of being a business leader.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rich-covid-travel-security-consulting-bodyguards-hiring-2021-5">Security firms for the ultra-rich are staffing up with vaccinated bodyguards and brushing up on clients' laundry list of demands as the wealthy fuel up their jets and superyachts</a> </li></ul><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-diagnostics-new-brand-home-medical-tests-covid-sti-genomics-2021-5">Amazon plans a new at-home medical-test brand</a></h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-diagnostics-new-brand-home-medical-tests-covid-sti-genomics-2021-5"><div type="image" title="Jeff Bezos" height="2000" width="2666" msid="82881229" hostid="261"></div></a>Amazon is considering the launch of a new line of business,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-diagnostics-new-brand-home-medical-tests-covid-sti-genomics-2021-5"> called "Diagnostics,"</a> that would offer an array of at-home medical tests and a third-party marketplace for general home-diagnostics services:The company is in talks to launch its own COVID-19 testing kit in June, potentially around the start of its Prime Day annual shopping event, according to people directly involved in the matter.Additionally, Amazon could expand to offer testing kits for infections that lead to respiratory and sexually transmitted diseases. Amazon's long-term goal is to expand into other areas, such as clinical genomics, and launch a third-party marketplace that sells medical tests from other companies.Plans for Amazon's new home-testing products represent the retail giant's first foray into the health-diagnostics space. They're part of Amazon's expansion into the broader healthcare industry.Here's a look at what we know so far:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-diagnostics-new-brand-home-medical-tests-covid-sti-genomics-2021-5">Amazon plans new 'Diagnostics' brand that offers at-home medical tests for COVID-19, sexually transmitted infections, and clinical genomics</a></li></ul>Also read:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/vaccine-mrna-covid-drug-treatment-future-of-medicine-2021-5">Experts explain why the mRNA tech that revolutionized COVID-19 vaccines could be the answer to incurable diseases, heart attacks, and even snake bites: 'The possibilities are endless'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-launches-morgan-health-a-second-try-at-changing-healthcare-2021-5">JPMorgan is trying to disrupt healthcare again just 3 months after its previous attempt went up in smoke</a></li></ul><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-ian-osborne-cofounder-chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-hedosophia-spac-2021-5">The secret life of Ian Osbor</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-ian-osborne-cofounder-chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-hedosophia-spac-2021-5">ne</a></h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-ian-osborne-cofounder-chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-hedosophia-spac-2021-5"><div type="image" title="ian osborne" height="1500" width="2000" msid="82881232" hostid="261"></div></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-ian-osborne-cofounder-chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-hedosophia-spac-2021-5">British investor Ian Osborne</a> has dazzled the tech and finance industries through Social Capital Hedosophia, his SPAC with Chamath Palihapitiya. We spoke to more than 30 of Osborne's associates to learn more about the man at the forefront of the "blank check" investment frenzy:An elusive power broker, Osborne does not like to be in the spotlight, though he's frequently at the center of the action - SCH dazzled Wall Street with its first reverse merger with Virgin Galactic in 2019, igniting the current SPAC craze.Part connector, part fixer-for-hire, the 38-year-old is an unlikely lord of high finance and tech. Through means that aren't entirely clear to even some close acquaintances, he has finagled his way into the circuits and pocketbooks of the world's most rich and famous, earning favor by doing favors, and parlaying his impressive black book into a lucrative, and sometimes mysterious, career. "How he got to the level he did, I don't know but it's an art," one longtime friend and business associate told Insider.Take a look inside Osborne's enigmatic life:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/profile-ian-osborne-cofounder-chamath-palihapitiya-social-capital-hedosophia-spac-2021-5">The secret life of Ian Osborne, the shadowy 38-year-old cofounder of Chamath Palihapitiya's SPAC who has built the ultimate black book of billionaires</a></li></ul>Also read:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-bankers-back-to-office-happy-hours-dining-dealmakers-2021-5">Dealmaker dinners are back, and interns are ready to hit up the bars. Wall Street's appetite is returning, and New York City restaurants are gearing up for a rush.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cciv-churchill-captial-spac-lucid-merger-millennium-citadel-blackstone-2021-5">Hedge funds like Millennium, Citadel, and Blackstone have dumped shares in the Michael Klein-backed SPAC set to acquire Lucid Motors</a></li></ul><h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lone-pine-mala-gaonkar-profile-mandel-team-performance-foundation-arts-2021-5">Who is Mala Gaonkar?</a></h3><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lone-pine-mala-gaonkar-profile-mandel-team-performance-foundation-arts-2021-5"><div type="image" title="mala gaonkar hedge fund 4x3" height="1249" width="1666" msid="82881235" hostid="261"></div></a>Mala Gaonkar is one of three people running $30 billion Lone Pine Capital, alongside Kelly Granat and David Craver, taking over the firm from the billionaire founder Stephen Mandel Jr., who retired at the beginning of 2019. 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Gaonkar is the firm's expert on the bigger picture - she's less interested in a company's latest earnings release and more focused on what trends will be dominating the world in a couple of years' time.We explored what, exactly, makes Gaonkar such a trailblazer:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lone-pine-mala-gaonkar-profile-mandel-team-performance-foundation-arts-2021-5">Lone Pine's Mala Gaonkar, a longtime lieutenant to billionaire Stephen Mandel Jr., is one of the hedge-fund industry's most interesting characters</a></li></ul>Also read:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/crypto-investing-wells-fargo-to-add-fund-to-platform-bitcoin-2021-5">Wells Fargo's investment institute is in the final stages of onboarding an active crypto strategy for its wealthy clients. 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We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck it used to raise a fresh $80 million from Spotify investor Lakestar.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/javascript-typescript-codebase-sentry-frontend-devs-2021-5">This $1 billion startup spent 18 months rewriting its entire codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript - and its lead engineer explains why it was worth the mammoth effort</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-promoted-tech-exec-public-cloud-infrastructure-2021-5">Bank of America's top tech exec Cathy Bessant just added a new direct report, which hints at the increased focus the bank is putting on its infrastructure and cloud initiatives</a></li></ul>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">The Guardian</div></div></div>Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti is set to become shadow attorney general.Chakrabarti, who isn't an MP, is a human rights barrister who was controversially made a peer by Jeremy Corbyn in August after she chaired Labour's anti-Semitism inquiry.Having spent a career promoting human rights, Chakrabarti was initially seen as a suitable choice to lead the independent inquiry into whether Labour had a problem with anti-Semitism.However, her nomination to the Lords led Britain's chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirivis, to call the independence of the inquiry into question.<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/honours-list-jeremy-corbyn-shami-chakrabarti-labour-peerage-anti-semitism-a7172641.html" target="_blank">He said:</a> "Shami Chakrabarti has a proud record of public service, but in accepting this peerage, the credibility of her report lies in tatters and the Labour Party's stated intention, to unequivocally tackle anti-Semitism, remains woefully unrealised".Labour become engulfed in an anti-Semitism row over the Summer which saw former London mayor Ken Livingstone and MP Naz Shah suspended for making alleged anti-Semitic remarks. <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/09/exclusive-shami-chakrabarti-set-become-shadow-attorney-general">The New Statesman reports</a> that Chakrabarti "wants to do more" and the believes the "gig is a no brainer."The shadow attorney general is seen as a significant position within the shadow cabinet. The holder's role is to scrutinise the actions of the Attorney General - currently Tory MP Jeremy Wright - who supervises institutions including the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office.The holder's role is to scrutinise the actions of the Attorney General - currently Tory MP Jeremy Wright - who supervises institutions including the Crown Prosecution Service and the Serious Fraud Office.The post has been vacant since MP Karl Turner's resignation in June.Corbyn is due to make more appointments to his shadow cabinet in the coming weeks.MP Sir Keir Starmer <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/sir-keir-starmer-tipped-to-replace-andy-burnham-as-shadow-home-secretary-a3357031.html">is being tipped</a> for shadow home secretary after Andy Burnham stepped down from the post to focus on his campaign to become the mayor of Manchester. Starmer took part in the wave of resignations in protest at Corbyn's leadership in June, but he is reportedly ready to return to the front bench.The reshuffle is expected to begin on Wednesday 5 October. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-hillary-clinton-lead-donald-trump-hispanic-nbc-wall-street-journal-2016-9">Clinton opens up a massive lead against Trump, with lopsided support from a key voting demographic</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="5yeHYxNjE6ixP3ifhliNyOMFcdkq2l6u" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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