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| sudoku billions: Gringo go home! Jay Horowitz, 2018-12-17 Un Gringo universitario de NYC, visita a Colombia durante los años 60. Lo vio como el paraíso del mundo con oportunidades económicas abundantes. La industria estaba aproximadamente 20 años atrás, y parecía la oportunidad de la vida para establecer una fábrica de juguetes moderna con modelos, mercadeo y tecnología de EE. UU. Su teoría fue válida, y su marca se convirtió a la más conocida, sin embargo la vida y cultura de Colombia no fue como la de NYC. El paraíso de los años 60 cambió a la época de la violencia de los años 70. Se presentaron aventuras inesperadas como la estafa, sobrevivir a la extorsion, el secuestro, un desfalco, el atentado y demás eventos que formaron parte de la vida en Colombia en los años 70. Por seguridad, regresó con su familia a los EE. UU. donde inició otro modelo de negocio exitoso, ofreciendo los moldes, maquinaria y tecnología para las fábricas de juguetes. A través de los años, éste negocio lo proyectó hacia México. Desafortunadamente, México pasó a vivir la misma situación en los años 2000 – 2020 que Colombia vivía durante los años 70 – 80 donde la corrupción y la violencia son parte de la vida cotidiana. Además de mostrar este episodio de su vida, el libro da la “inside story” de cómo realmente funcionan los negocios. Son modelos de negocios originales. La historia también analiza qué parte juega la suerte o la providencia en la vida. Finalmente, la emoción de nostalgia reconoce con cariño la música, películas, programas de TV de nuestra juventud, pero especialmente ¡los juguetes! Los niños de Colombia, de la “Generación Toyco” reconocerán sus favoritos. Una historia verídica, palabra por palabra. |
| sudoku billions: Facebook Steven Levy, 2020-02-25 One of the Best Technology Books of 2020—Financial Times “Levy’s all-access Facebook reflects the reputational swan dive of its subject. . . . The result is evenhanded and devastating.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Levy’s] evenhanded conclusions are still damning.”—Reason “[He] doesn’t shy from asking the tough questions.”—The Washington Post “Reminds you the HBO show Silicon Valley did not have to reach far for its satire.”—NPR.org The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO—who has enormous power over what the world sees and says—never has a company been more central to the national conversation. Millions of words have been written about Facebook, but no one has told the complete story, documenting its ascendancy and missteps. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life, or the imperative of this book to document the unchecked power and shocking techniques of the company, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering its biggest rivals to acquire WhatsApp and Instagram, to developing a platform so addictive even some of its own are now beginning to realize its dangers. Based on hundreds of interviews from inside and outside Facebook, Levy’s sweeping narrative of incredible entrepreneurial success and failure digs deep into the whole story of the company that has changed the world and reaped the consequences. |
| sudoku billions: Injustice Danny Dorling, 2015-06-03 In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more and more people in debt, especially the young. Economic inequalities will persist and continue to grow for as long as we tolerate the injustices which underpin them. This fully rewritten and updated edition revisits Dorling’s claim that Beveridge’s five social evils are being replaced by five new tenets of injustice: elitism is efficient; exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good and despair is inevitable. By showing these beliefs are unfounded, Dorling offers hope of a more equal society. We are living in the most remarkable and dangerous times. With every year that passes it is more evident that Injustice is essential reading for anyone concerned with social justice and wants to do something about it. |
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