"One giant leap, needs two steps back"
Currently serving as a volunteer in the Republic of Moldova
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Holding a village BBQ this Saturday for the villagers. Ethan, one of my colleagues, is going to come down as he had a similar village in the north. That and I decided on buying the Hunger games for the students. Eventually, they’ll be given to the school library ( where no modern fiction exists ) but for now, they are being shared by several of the girls in town.
WHEN THEY SAY MOLDOVA IS THE POOREST COUNTRY IN EUROPE
File this under things that anger me the most about perceptions about Moldova. Do they lack cash? YES! But when you have a home and a family and enough to eat - that is hardly poor.
Last Bell 2013 for the 9th graders and me as well.
Sixty Percent of the top 25 Tech Companies were founded by Immigrants.
1. Sixty percent of the top 25 technology companies (ranked by market capitalisation) in the US were founded by first- and second-generation Americans
Rank Company Founder/co-founder Generation
1 Apple Steve Jobs 2nd - Syria
2 Google Sergey Brin 1st - Russia
3 IBM Herman Hollerith 2nd - Germany
4 Microsoft Bill Gates n/a
5 Oracle Larry Ellison 2nd - Russia
6 Amazon Jeff Bezos 2nd - Cuba
7 Cisco Leonard Bosack n/a
8 Intel Andrew Grove 1st - Hungary
9 Ebay Pierre Omidyar 1st - France
10 Facebook Mark Zuckerberg n/a
11 EMC Roger Marino 2nd - Italy
12 Hewlett-Packard William Hewlett n/a
13 Texas Instruments Cecil Green 1st - UK
14 Vmware Edouard Bugnion 1st - Switzerland
15 Priceline Jay Walker n/a
16 Automatic Data Processing Henry Taub 2nd - Poland
17 Salesforce March Benioff n/a
18 Dell Michael Dell n/a
19 Yahoo Jerry Yang 1st - Taiwan
20 Cognizant Technology Francisco D’Souza 1st - Nairobi
21 Adobe John Warnock n/a
22 Broadcom Henry Samueli 2nd - Poland
23 Intuit Scott Cook n/a
24 Linkedin Konstantin Guericke 1st - Germany
25 Symantec Gary Hendrix n/a
(Source: KPCB pg87, the Partnership for a New American Economy)
