How a few Stanford University graduates got tens of millions of people to use their photo sharing service. In the spring of 2006, Kevin Systrom was standing at the coffee machine at Caffe del Doge in Palo Alto when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg walked up to the counter. A year earlier, Zuckerberg had already had dinner with Systrom - he invited him to leave his last year at Stanford to develop a photo service for Facebook. Systrom then refused.

photo by Roman Shelomentsev for Forbes The manager who bankrupted Lehman Brothers talks about the recovery of markets and the best investments. The founder of Alvarez & Marsal, one of the world's most famous specialists in managing bad assets, Brian Marsal knows a lot about the problems of the modern economy. At a time when the world is mired in huge debts, he is the best adviser.

America is the best refuge from Russian legal chaos. But is it possible to build a new business in the USA? Yuri Mosha remembers the five-hour car race on the icy Moscow-Minsk highway as a bad dream. Just like that whole day, March 9, 2011, when he was supposed to be arrested. He only came to his senses on the Minsk-Vienna plane. Realizing that the worst was over, Mosha drank a glass of cognac in one gulp. Another half a day - and he already stepped out onto the wet surface of John F.

Ten managers who run the country's main companies. Vladimir Strzhalkovsky 58 years old non-ferrous metallurgy I met Putin in the 1980s during joint service in the USSR KGB department for Leningrad and the region. In 1990, together with his partners, he created and headed the travel company Neva, where he worked until December 1999. After Vladimir Putin was announced as a successor to the presidency, he returned to government service.

Talking about the benefits of education is as banal as talking about the dangers of smoking. But necessary. I would like to write: especially now. But I understand that this is not true: the older generation in all eras imagined that today’s children and youth do not study at all, are not interested in anything, have no moral guidelines... This, of course, is not so.

How to invest money in the production of rare earth metals? Compare your iPhone, which fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, to Motorola's first cell phones. The striking difference in size is not only due to the use of modern microcircuits. Conventional gadgets wouldn't be so light and thin if magnets were still made of iron, batteries were still made of lead, and capacitors were still made of aluminum.

Eteri Kriheli, CEO of the Klazko group of clinics, talks about Lake Como and why southern countries make her nostalgic. I have not been in the jungle, climbed mountain slopes or sat at the controls of an airplane. I like a more down-to-earth holiday - with beautiful landscapes and flowers around. Since I am from the south myself, southern countries are very close to me, I feel very comfortable in them. I remember my first trip abroad in 1988 to Athens.

About strength and weakness [Money] is as clear and indisputable a reflection of health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as disease, weakness, dishonor, baseness and ugliness are indisputably a reflection of their lack. They crush low people <...> and elevate noble people. — George Bernard Shaw Whoever has a fist cannot straighten into a palm. - Nikolay Gogol A growing need for a strong person is an irrefutable sign of weakness. — Gilbert K.

The adoption of the law resulted in mass protests. The Spanish government's decision to deny illegal immigrants the right to free health care has sparked a wave of demonstrations in Madrid. The Cabinet of Ministers, concerned about the presence of a “hole” of 16 billion euros in the budget of the Spanish Ministry of Health, considered it a luxury to spend on 500 thousand illegal migrants living in the country.

About 80 travel agency clients are stuck in Croatia. The Russian tour operator CherryTour, which recently experienced financial difficulties, announced the suspension of its activities. This is reported on the official website of the travel agency. “For questions regarding compensation under a financial guarantee, the company requests that you contact Ingosstrakh Insurance Company,” the operator said in a statement.

Autobiography and signature recipe of one of the most famous New York chefs. Chefs are known to write more than just cookbooks: they sometimes publish autobiographies. And I’ve read a lot of them in my life. I must say that this is not the most exciting read, as are most autobiographies. There are several reasons for this. Some are simply not very well written, somehow dry and without interesting details - but, as a rule, it is the details that remain in the memory.

About women who could. Author: Lisa Birger In American self-help literature there is a genre of books about women who could. Women who have overcome breast cancer. Women who have experienced depression. Women who were fired from high-paying jobs without severance pay, and they learned to cook and began to devote more time to their family.

Bankers also took part in the corruption scheme, security officials believe. Advisor to the general director of the federal state unitary enterprise "ROSTEK" Alexander Romanov was detained on suspicion of committing corruption crimes. The man is suspected of organizing the illegal collection of money from importing companies, Interfax reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. FSUE "ROSTEK" provides support for customs operations.

The writer's plane hit a power line. The author of the best-selling books “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” “Illusions, or the Adventures of a Forced Messiah,” and “Nothing by Chance,” the famous American writer Richard Bach was involved in a plane crash on San Juan Island in Washington state. The writer's amphibious plane hit a power line and crashed, reports the Associated Press .

Forbes game: do you know Putin's friends? How did it happen that 10 people from St. Petersburg control the largest sectors of the Russian economy and business? Forbes invites readers to guess which lines in their biography helped these people make their careers under Vladimir Putin. You can deepen your knowledge of the president's friends by reading the September issue of Forbes magazine, which examines the career paths of these captains of Russian business.