SA boy builds rockets to go to the moon
We’d heard rumours about a South African dude building spacecrafts to make flying to the moon as easy as booking an online flight – we finally tracked him down. His name is Elon Musk he’s about 35 years old and he is a serious INTERNET and MOON guru!! Similar to Roelof Botha, who we have recently profiled on the site, Elon is a young entrepreneur and now succesful self-made bi… llionaire with incredible vision and belief in big creative concepts and in Elon’s case, way-out visionary ideas and projects. Elon was one of the founders of PayPal – he sold it for 1.5billion bucks and now runs a company called SpaceX which is building rockets to get to the moon. The man is clearly very gifted and very ambitious – thanks for making us proud!!! Well if we made that kind of cash in a deal we’d also spend it on the craziest and most far out thing out there… gettting to the moon! See an extract of his biog from NotableBiographies – we in the meantime will try and secure our own interview with Elon. NotableBiographies: ELON MUSK 1971 ” South Africa Entrepreneur, philanthropist Elon Musk was a multi-millionaire by the time he reached the age of thirty-one thanks to his creation of the company that became PayPal, the popular money-transfer service for Web consumers. Musk has become one of a new breed of what the New York Times called “thrillionaires,” or a class of former high-tech entrepreneurs who are using their newfound wealth to help turn science-fiction dreams into reality. Musk is the founder of Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, a company based in El Segundo, California. In 2005 SpaceX was busy building the Falcon rocket, which he hoped could some day make both space tourism and a colony on the planet Mars realistic goals for humankind. Sells homemade video game Musk is a native of South Africa, born in 1971 to parents who later divorced. His father was an engineer and his motheroriginally from Canadawas a nutritionist. Musk was fascinated by science fiction and computers in his adolescent years. When he was twelve, he wrote the code for his own video game and actually sold it to a company. In his late teens, he immigrated to Canada in order to avoid the required military service for white males in South Africa. It was still the era of apartheid, the South African legal system that denied political and economic rights to the country’s majority-black native population. Musk was uninterested in serving in the army, which was engaged at the time in a battle to stamp out a...
SA heavyweight driving the WWW – Roelof Botha
You might know this already. We didn’t. A bunch of friends were chatting the other day at a table in Melville and we started talking about the phenomenon that is YouTube and the fact that it was sold for $1.65 billion after running for less than two years, one of our friends mentioned that one of the owners of YouTube was not only a South African but also the son of Pik Botha. We of course thou… ght this was a joke, as the person telling this story just happened to be a Botha too (you know who you are) and for some reason it sounded ridiculous that a South African would be behind one of the biggest deals in the history of the internet business. Plus this guy has that kind of sense of humour. Ridiculous. Until we went to Wikipedia to look up Roelof. See here. And here for YouTube’s story. No Jokes. Roelof Botha is indeed behind not only YouTube but PayPal too! But he is the GRANDSON of Pik Botha. He is part of an exciting and dynamic venture capital company Sequoia Capital based in Silicon Valley in the States and our boy is kicking some serious internet touches. Vat hom Fluffie!!! “Roelof Botha focuses on services and software investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (EBAY). Earlier, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries), and has a BS in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. ” Sequoia looks like the kind of company that is truly global nd working in developing markets – bravo – with operations in Israel, India and China – let’s face it, Roelof seems like a hell of a creative guy who is willing to take risks and believe in creativity and wild and wonderful ideas. The best part is – his company wants to hear your business plan. So brothers and sisters, let him know what you are thinking – you never know. Check it out here. To Roelof, thanks for making us proud and for flying the South African flag way up high. Much Respect You Rock! Represent. Here’s the info on the deal: SAN FRANCISCO – Even in Silicon Valley, it is rare for so much money to be made so fast – and by so few. The biggest winners in the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube by Google are the YouTube founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen,...
DOVE Campaign for Real Beauty
WOW – check out the latest viral tool in the Dove Campaign for real beauty here. It’s a short docuvideo that shows exactly what it takes to transform an ordinary face into a billboard model look. Amazing. Thanks to Stoffel for the heads up as always. You can also see it on YouTube here. … Dove has started the REALBEAUTY campaign to challenge “societal views on age, body shape and race…” They want to encourage women to celebrate themselves as they are and to raise their self-esteem. Dove, we salute you! Represent! More info: The Campaign for Real Beauty Background Campaign for Real Beauty Mission The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is a global effort that is intended to serve as a starting point for societal change and act as a catalyst for widening the definition and discussion of beauty. The campaign supports the Dove mission: to make women feel more beautiful every day by challenging today’s stereotypical view of beauty and inspiring women to take great care of themselves. The brand’s commitment to the mission starts with using real women, not professional models, of various ages, shapes and sizes to provoke discussion and debate about today’s typecast beauty images. The women proudly show off their wrinkles, curves and bumps provoking a debate through communication initiatives including advertising, interactive Web programs and attention-getting billboards. The program is also enriched by town halls, panel discussions and the Dove Self-Esteem Fund. The global campaign encourages women to join in the discussion about beauty and share their views on real beauty with women around the...
400 air hostess uniforms from 265 airlines
What more can we say? See this amazing site featuring 400 air hostess uniform’s here and feast your eyes on the colours and styles of the Ladies of the sky from all around the world. See the Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens Air hostess uniform from the 90’s right...
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