Billionaire Thomas Tull — who runs a holding company Tulco modeled in part after Buffett's — described a piece of advice from Buffett that 'impacted' his decision-making.
While the coronavirus pandemic has infected millions and underscored the importance of quality health care, the Supreme Court has weighed a challenge to Obamacare that, if successful, would add 21 million to the ranks of the uninsured, according to a report released last October by the Urban Institute. The case drew renewed attention last week, when the Biden administration issued a letter in opposition to the Obamacare challenge, reversing the.
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Last month The New York Times highlighted Sara Menker s company Gro Intelligence as a start-up raising money in a bid to create business benchmarks for climate risk. This week Yahoo Finance is featuring the Ethiopian-born former Wall Street commodities trader as part of its Influencers series discussing the challenges of food security, how Covid exposed the world’s agriculture system, and why [Sara] says we may be a few years away from a global food crisis. Below are excerpts and links to both stories. (Photo by Gabriela Celeste, via Gro Intelligence)
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Sara Menker spoke to Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in an episode of “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” a weekly interview series with leaders in business, politics, and entertainment.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed as many as 124 million people worldwide into extreme poverty and spiked food prices, prompting a hunger crisis and drawing scrutiny to the food supply chain. The World Food Program, a hunger relief effort carried out by the United Nations, said last month that the pandemic has shown vulnerability in the world’s food system that could lead to “mass famine.” In a new interview, Sara Menker a former Morgan Stanley.
Business growth in Africa depends on ‘big tech’: Kenyan entrepreneur Max Zahn with Andy Serwer
Twitter (TWTR) CEO Jack Dorsey made headlines in March when he opted out of plans for a months-long stay in Africa amid the onset of COVID-19. His plans to go to Africa reflect a trend in recent years of major tech CEOs traveling to the continent, including Dorsey himself, who visited several African countries months before his change of heart.
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Those trips have coincided with efforts undertaken by the tech giants to help bolster the continent’s internet infrastructure, contributing to buzz that Africa and its more than 1 billion people may prove to be the industry’s next big growth market.