Word: rolodex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Always the outsider, Son didn't have much of a Silicon Valley Rolodex in 1995, when he returned to the States. But he did have nearly a billion dollars to spend, money practically handed to him by Japanese bankers desperate to breathe life into their country's sagging economy. Son lured a couple of Silicon Valley veterans to run Softbank Technology Ventures, the San Jose partnership that has become the heart of his Internet empire. And so the shopping spree began, as Softbank scooped up the trade-show group that organizes Comdex, the computer industry's biggest convention, and Kingston...
...which built the Metalsite vertical market and NTT's internal marketplace, among others. But eBay's rousing success last Christmas solidified the idea's legitimacy. "Since January," he says, "you can't stop hearing about marketplaces. People are figuring out that if you're just sitting there with a Rolodex, you may be at a disadvantage...
What the Imagine partners have going for them, besides their willingness to experiment, is relationships with some of the most creative talents in the business. Krantz, 39, has a killer Rolodex of contacts from his days at CAA and a history of packaging some of TV's biggest deals (teaming Michael Crichton and ER with NBC, for instance). He persuaded Lynch to return to TV and convinced screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The American President) to try the medium for the first time. The result: Sports Night. Krantz and Grazer, 47, so liked the work of screenwriter...
Tall and sharp, with the features of a falcon, Zhu dominates meetings with his quick mind--his IQ "must be 200," Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers once said. Zhu has a Rolodex memory, endless energy and an overpowering impatience. He is not a man that one likes, but "a man that one respects," says Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Above all, Zhu is a man in a hurry, with a mission to make up for lost time, both for himself and for China...
...fact, George W.'s Rolodex isn't that different from his dad's. It's getting hard to keep count of all the veterans of the old Bush Administration who are now house-hunting in west Austin. But what's most striking about the selection the Governor has made from his father's staff is how shrewdly he has chosen. In nearly every case, Bush has tapped the young and the restless, the men and women who were most frustrated with President Bush's do-nothing approach to domestic policy. In the Bush White House, they were known...