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O’Ree, 85, who is also known as the “Jackie Robinson of hockey,” competed professionally for more than two decades after first entering the league in 1958 as a player for the Boston Bruins.
At the time he joined the league, O’Ree was blind in one eye due to an injury he sustained two years before. Yet the talented athlete competed in more than 40 games while in the league until 1961 and continued to compete professionally for many years after.
Decades later, the hockey legend was tapped as the league’s first diversity ambassador in 1998, and, in the years since, O’Ree has devoted his time to making a social impact with his Hockey is for Everyone youth hockey program.
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Education platform Go1 is Australia s newest unicorn, after securing $272 million in investment Jack Derwin Go1 CEO Andrew Barnes. (Image by Arsineh Houspian, AFR)
Education platform Go1 is now valued at more than $1 billion after raising $272 million in new investment.
Led by Softbank and backed by AirTree, Salesforce and Microsoft s venture arms among others, in one of Australia s largest ever funding rounds.
The platform, which links users with online education courses from different publishers, now has 3.5 million users with an eye on overseas expansion.
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Following a bumper funding raise of $US200 million ($272 million), education startup Go1 is now valued at more than $1 billion just six years after it was founded in a Brisbane garage.