Word: ebay
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...Amount eBay spent last year on CEO Meg Whitman's personal plane use. Since the IRS values such flight time as taxable income, the company gave Whitman a $128,390 "bonus" to cover the taxes...
Jill Morgan quit her job as a software engineer at Motorola to stay at home with her three kids and started a publishing company purely to satisfy small customers. Fond memories of Mr. Pine's Purple House, her very favorite book as a child, had driven her to eBay, where she was shocked to find a single used copy selling for $300. "I could buy it for my children, but I couldn't let them hold it," she says. So Morgan founded Purple House Press and set about acquiring the rights to republish out-of-print children's classics, such...
Reese Li couldn't agree more. A former Army officer who longed for a diaper bag with as many pockets as her trusty military knapsack, she decided to make one. Then she sold one on eBay. After hand sewing 500 bags, she decided last year to find a manufacturer and sell wholesale to baby boutiques. She garnered celebrity clients like Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow and Courteney Cox, and she projects $100,000 in sales this year. "I seriously don't want it to get too large," she says. "I always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I didn...
...band from Wesleyan called The Management. Over spring break I found this rare, limited-edition INXS album that has a 3-D pop-up of the band in it! The songs aren’t their finest, but some day I could probably retire young after selling it on eBay. Also, I saw Cody ChesnuTT this summer and still haven’t recovered. Same with Kraftwerk. They are kind of who I aspire to be like in my Germanic robot future life. Some other stuff: Dave van Ronk, Billy Bragg, Casiotone, the Lucky Dragons, and more stuff. Oh yeah...
Some reflected on their own experiences in the spotlight, like basketball great Oscar Robertson on LeBron James and Quincy Jones on Juanes, the Latin pop star. Some--like Citigroup's Sallie Krawcheck, who wrote about eBay's Meg Whitman; Gloria Steinem on Winfrey; and Richard Branson on Airbus CEO Noël Forgeard--make their judgments with a cool eye, but others, like Lisa Marie Presley on Etheridge and the Rev. Billy Graham on John Stott, are surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono...