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How a Neurosurgeon (and Netflix Star) Spends His Sundays “I exhaust myself mentally during the week,” said Dr. David Langer, whose down time includes reading and walks in Central Park. Dr. David Langer with his wife,  Dr. Nancy Lipsitz, and their dogs, Cooper and Stark, in Central Park. Credit...Gili Benita for The New York Times By Alix Strauss Published Feb. 12, 2021Updated Feb. 13, 2021 Yes, it’s possible to be a doctor and play one on TV. Just look at the career of Dr. David Langer, who is the chairman of neurosurgery at Lenox Hill Hospital, which also provides the backdrop for �...

Drive into the New Year is a YourStory series featuring leaders as they rev into 2021. The series offers you a view into how Indian changemakers plan to navigate the road ahead. Today, we have Gajendra Jangid, Co-founder and CMO of CARS24, in the driver's seat.

How a millennial's $57,700 charity lunch with Bill Ackman turned into a $46.5 million IPO Julia La Roche In 2018, entrepreneur-turned-investor Andrew Wilkinson, who runs Victoria, Canada-based tech holding company Tiny, shelled out $57,700 for a charity auction lunch with Bill Ackman, the well-known billionaire activist investor and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management.   The $57,700 lunch turned out to be an excellent investment that led to a friendship and, ultimately, a business partnership. Ackman's family office invested in one of Wilkinson's portfolio companies, ...

Lazy folks stick to what they know And they trade less and hold stocks longer A few months ago, Shane Parrish of Farnam Street, wrote an excellent blog post -- "Why Clever and Lazy People Make Great Leaders." In essence, the post suggested that perhaps laziness, when paired with intelligence, can be an admirable quality. Much of the impetus for the line of thing was based on a quote by a German military strategist, who said: "Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficul...

WeCommerce going public to further strategy of buying Shopify ecosystem companies WeCommerce, the holding company controlled by Andrew Wilkinson’s Tiny Capital, is set to go public on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) via a reverse takeover of Brachium Capital Corp. The Victoria-based WeCommerce announced this week it has closed a qualifying transaction that will see it takeover Brachium Capital Corp. and list on the TSXV under the symbol ‘WE.V.’ “We will continue to position ourselves as the acquirer of choice for software companies within Shopify’s partner ecosystem....