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Amazon Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke to leave next year, will be replaced by operations chief Dave Clark

GeekWire

He oversees businesses that generated more than $200 billion in net sales in 2019, representing nearly 90% of Amazon’s overall net sales last year. He grew up in Pittsburgh, studied chemical engineering at Princeton University, and did his graduate work in MIT’s Leaders for Global Operations program.

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The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

Vox

Pharmaceutical companies raked in record profits from Covid-19 drugs and vaccines; tech stocks boomed , and the number of billionaires around the world shot up by 30 percent. Private drug companies did develop effective vaccines that helped save millions of lives — but so did Cuba’s nationalized pharmaceutical industry.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network.

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Mark Cuban on America’s future

The Verge

It’s like Fox News does its damage, and Facebook does even worse damage because it gets reinforced by people you actually know that are in your physical, your life bubble, in addition to just being on some wide social media net that you really don’t know the people and they’re abstract. Facebook’s not abstract, and that’s the huge difference.

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