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Remote take care of global payroll, benefits, compliance and taxes, so can focus on people. Founded by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre in 2019, Remote is backed by investors that include General Catalyst, Index Ventures, INKEF Capital, Jobert Abma, Kirsten Abma, Liquid 2 Ventures, Remote First Capital, Sytse Sijbrandij, and Two Sigma Ventures and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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The Social Order
Cultural historian Robert Darnton famously argued that “world views cannot be chronicled in the manner of political events, but they are no less ‘real.’ Politics could not take place without the preliminary mental ordering that goes into the common-sense notion of the real world.” To discover the “preliminary mental ordering” of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, Darnton turned to an unusual source: the French fairy tale, as told by French peasants to ethnographers and folklorists of the nineteenth century. These stories of repulsive ogres, fearsome fairies, talking animals, and enchanted objects communicated, in Darnton’s eyes, important truths as the French peasantry understood them truths about “how the world is made and how one
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مریسا مایر در ۳۰ام می ۱۹۷۵ در ایالت ویسکانسین آمریکا به دنیا آمد. مادرش مارگاریتا، معلم هنر بود و اصالتا فنلاندی است. پدرش مایکل هم مهندسی محیط زیست خوانده و در شرکت‌های آبفا کار می‌کند. آن‌ها به‌جز مریسا یک پسر کوچک‌تر هم دارند. پدربزرگ مریسا در کودکی به فلج اطفال مبتلا بوده اما این موضوع باعث نشده از مسیر موفقیت دور شود؛ او ۳۲ سال شهردار جکسون از شهرهای ویسکانسین بوده. ظاهرا مایر در کودکی بسیار خجالتی بوده ولی با این حال در اکثر فعالیت‌های خارج از برنامه‌ی مدرسه شرکت می‌کرد؛ اسکی، پیانو، باله، شنا و در راهنمایی و دبیرستان کلاس