Darren walker to do serving as president of the Ford Foundation and will be the 2020 stanford distinguished lecturer and given all of his extraordinary accomplishmentshou whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in louisiana one of the first children of the nation to benefit from the Headstart Program he went on to earn a scholarship at the university of texas austin where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication and lobby for pursuing a successful career as an attorneyyst and investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations for most philanthropic executives. s serving as chief operating officer as the Largest Development Corporation Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of thehe us Impact Investment alliance and for the past seven years as president of the Ford Foundation. He oversees an endowment of 13,000,000,000. 600 million of annual grant money. He is dedicated to tackli
Provider. Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will no
Scott cooper, what does a Venture Capitalist do . Basically what we do we provide money to companies that are trying to grow and hopefully become very Big Companies like a facebook or google or an apple someday and every doing our jobs correctly, were helping them grow the company so we dont obviously work in the businesses but we can provide and navigate new challenges as they go through the business, we like making ourselves as a money provider and a supporter as a business growth. Why can a company such as the one you described go to a bank and go through traditional avenues . A good question, the problem is most of the business we invest are very risky businesses that lose money for a long period of time as they invest in the business and banks unfortunately are not in the business of doing that or taking risk of losing the capital, we are willing to take that risk and about half of what we invested we will ultimately lose all her money and any bank to your promos will not be too e
Choking on his own blood. He wanted water so bad, so we were trying to comfort him as much as we could. Theres details about the orlando shooters wife. The couple was apparently texting one another during the rampage. Those who were killed and injured here were gunned down by a single killer with a powerful assault weapon. Blaming guns im going to save your second amendment, folks. President obamas strategy in syria is coming under fire this morning. Cable signed by 51 diplomats urges airstrikes against the assad regime. Iraqi troops reportedly recapturing a government building in central fallujah from isis. Cia director john brennan saying we have not been able to stop isis from growing. Our efforts have not reduced terrorism capability and global reach. Clinton loss of jo cox. Wildfire evacuations across california, arizona. Terrifying, really. Singer meat loaf is hospitalized in canada after collapsing during a show in edmonton. All that this due to onehanded grab at foul ball, fant
Chief executive officer volunteer florida. Florida National Guard, john president and chief executive officer of walmart, welcome to florida. We are happy that you are here. I just got back from surveying the damage in charlotte and lee counties. Some of the damage was almost indescribable to see a house just sitting in the middle of the bay. It literally mustve gotten picked up, flown because of the massive wind of water. There were cars floating in the middle of the water. Some of the homes were total losses. I would say the most significant damage i saw was on fort myers beach. Some of the homes were wiped out. The sun was just concrete slabs. Coursers damages some of our infrastructure. Particularly the sanibel causeway. There are breaks and that of multiple different areas. It was interesting the pylons on the water you had that part of the bridge that was actually good. It was the point it was on a sand bar the got totally wiped away. Or from the mainland there is breaks there. T