Television companies supports cspan2 as a public service. Now about our featured attraction, Walter Isaacson. I would be surprised if you havent already seen him on tv in the past few days, or read a bit about his new book, because, well, hes been everywhere. And for good reason. The release of another biography has become ancson event in itself. He staked out a wellearned reputation as the preeminent biographer of geniuses, and what hes writing about brilliant people from long ago like leonardo da vinci, Benjamin Franklin and albert einstein, a more contemporary innovative figures of our age, like steve jobs, or henry kissinger, you can bet the result will be a fascinating, revealing comprehensive and vividly told book. And the story turned out to be even more than walter bargained for when he set out a couple of years ago to do the biography. Back then, walter thought hed be writing mainly about moscows technological trailblazer, a leader in the fields of electric vehicles and privat
It was around 1994, the answer to the ageold problem, how do ive findi find a pizza place next to my dorm room, turn by turn directions. He ended up selling that company for 300 million. That is what set him on his way. Quite what did he do with that 20 million . He sat back and thought about an industry that needed a kick in the pants. He worked at a bank as an intern. They were dumb and kind of herd mentality. Early days of the internet, and he thought to do an online Financial System for everything. Then it morphed into paypal. Often cited as the founder of paypal. Well, they are both cofounders anyway. In the same building there is another company which was when he started with another stanford graduate. Two companies in one building that were spending each other to death. They would tempt people to use their service. A lot of fraud. They come up with a Service Called paypal. You say he arrived in the country with 100 in his pocket. Born in south africa. Have his family is canadian
Police arrested a suspect in the last hour. Christian. Reporter the perimeter they had set up here near Orange Memorial Park is gone now and we know that one person has been arrested by police. But at this point, South San Francisco pd is slow to release information about how this eighthour scare ended. Police responded to several shots heard around orange and commercial avenues this morning. When they put up the police said a guy started shooting at them. The police returned fire. No one was hit. A one block perimeter was set up. Several agencies showing up to search for the gunman and dozens of neighbors in the area were warned to lock their doors and stay inside after several hours of Police Activity around this neighborhood. We are getting reports that not one person has excuse me, that one person has been taken into custody. We are reaching out to police right now for more information. Well update you when it comes in. Thank you. Seconds ago police just confirmed to us that 23year
Elon Musk, currently the richest man in the world and the entrepreneur behind SpaceX and Tesla Inc., has a history of multiple marriages and costly divorces. He even married and divorced his second wife, actress Tallulah Riley, twice. His relationship with Riley began in 2008 when they met in a London bar, leading to a rapid courtship and marriage in 2010. The first marriage ended in divorce in 2012, with Musk expressing his sentiments on X, posting, “It was an amazing four years. I will love