The Pointless Vanity Edition

Slate Money

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Investing, Business

4.3 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Felix Salmon of Fusion, emerging-markets expert Anna Szymanski, and Huffington Post senior reporter Emily Peck, discuss:Sheryl Sandberg’s new book on grief, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy.Former Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer’s mostly ineffective data project, USA Facts.How CEO Marissa Mayer will earn $186 million through Yahoo’s sale to Verizon. Check out other Panoply podcasts at megaphone.fm. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @felixsalmon,@Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck Production by Zachary Dinerstein. Slate Money is brought to you by Boll and Branch. Get 50 dollars off your first set of sheets plus free shipping by going to BollandBranch.com and using promo code money. And by Green Mountain Coffee. Green Mountain Coffee is passionate about making a smoother tasting cup. Try it today with $4 off of most Green Mountain Coffee K-Cup pods when you buy two select boxes at Keurig.com… and use promo code TRYGMC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4	Hello! And welcome to the pointless vanity edition of Slate Money.
0:45.0	Your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:49.0	I'm Felix Salmon of Fusion.
0:52.0	I am joined this week by Anna Shimansky.
0:55.4	Hello. And also, kind of excitingly, by Emily Peck of the Huffington Post.
1:01.8	Hello!
1:03.0	Welcome, Emily.
1:05.8	We have decided that we are going to devote this entire edition to,
1:10.6	like we were trying, we were talking about this earlier about like they're not
1:15.1	number two's like two of them have actually been CEOs but they are the people who
1:21.0	you kind of who none of them are founders they're all from
1:23.7	Silicon Valley there was they're all relatively early employees so there's
1:29.4	Cheryl Sandburg at Facebook who came in early she's the CEO, she's a billionaire from Facebook alone, but
1:36.2	she's not the founder.
1:39.2	There's Steve Belmer at Microsoft who did become the CEO, but again he's not the founder and he also became
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