You can only focus on a few things. There is the question of what are you going to focus on at your company . Focused. Have to stay sorting through the good ideas is sometimes hard. Other questions . Do you see yourself as you evolve as a Media Company getting to other things like conferences and events that you states stage . We do some of events. We interview people. And it is an interesting way to generate media. It is a trend of live event plus live content. Do one more here. Just say it. I will repeat it. First of all, i want to tell you that i respect your model and how you went and asked studies of the real media companies. You are right. It wasnte nothing if for a guy by the name of read old illed read chef sheffiled. In his book, reed was the one who recruited all the people from new york and they lived in a fleabag hotel while they founded cnn. It is a great story. I read the book called cnn the inside story with lots of inside stories with schonfeld being a major player whil
I hope everyone is clear on that. Probljectsworking on on islam . No. Education reform. We have not ventured into any social stuff or into too much Foreign Policy type things, so nothing on islam currently. Any thoughts on why so many wealthy entrepreneurs are liberal . I do not know. In Silicon Valley, they kind of our commonlaw but i do not know if entrepreneurs are liberal. It seems like many businessmen to come cronies of government. You see many people make the thomas and is in turn where they enter as entrepreneurs and become political entrepreneurs. Uber. Ee that with h six months ago we were cheering them, but they have totally made the turn to go a political entrepreneur. After they go into these cities, they start to cut deals with local governments where they make regulations, and if they them,ford to adhere to you see a lot of these may starturs, they out one way, but they are in it for their business first and foremost. I do not fault them for, but i do not like using gove
Finally, if you see an oncologist or nurse, ask them what their hopes are for the future. You ask yourself, if one of your loved ones was diagnosis of cancer, what you want the most innovative Personalized Care for them . C can focus on the survival, a sub optimal position. Thank you. [applause] good morning. Thank you all for being here. Two years ago i would have never imagined i would be speaking to group like this. A o years ago is lying in hospital bed. Two years ago i had just been that the tumor i had was not operable. Two years ago, i was preparing to. Let me start from the beginning first awakeningof cancer was following a seizure when his end of the hospital. Prior to that, i visited my primary care doctor, but i was the much useless. I had headaches, they wouldnt stop. Did having they shortly after, the craniotomy. When the tumor was surgically as oved, it was diagnosed stage for metastatic cancer with an unknown primary. That tissue, however, was consistent with lung tissue
Have my own pr business and theyve also done projects, communication projects with clients. Among them, coauthored the book. Basically i were to steve forbes and conversations led to the idea for this book. How did you meet steve forbes . I met him at an event i did when i was working in Southern California and one thing led to another. I moved back to new york. I am from new york and started working at forbes of the pr department. Elizabeth ames, or practical experience, how do that that . Ive learned a lot since forbes. When i sat forbes islandwide about markets. Again, i began as a journalist and worked at businessweek many years ago as a journalist. But when i started to work as an entrepreneur, i learned about the fact that you really need to have Economic Freedom to create jobs. Something i learned personally. If youre obviously just getting a paycheck, you really dont understand how government can affect that firsthand. That was one of the things that led me to think this is a u
So my story about Strom Thurmond begins, its late july, 1992, and im on a flight from washington, d. C. To charlotte, North Carolina. I had been an intern that summer up on capitol hill, and one of my regrets of the summer was that id never seen Strom Thurmond. Because all my fellow interns said youve got to see Strom Thurmond. He such an unusual appearance about him. I did know what they meant really your but i had my suspicions. So im on the flight and a look ahead in front of me and i see a man whos got kind of orange colored hair practically, so brightly colored. First generation hair plugs. Shows you how slow i am that i think to myself, that must be what Strom Thurmonds head looks like. Then, of course, it wasnt Strom Thurmond. I knew that when people reaching over trying to shake his hand. I wanted to shake his hand, too, because id been in d. C. That summer for the first time, and i met all of these politicians ive seen a tv. I was about to go home and speak to my dads rotary c