Chambers is a press-shy businessman turned philanthropist whose leveraged-buyout business, Wesray Capital, made hundreds of millions of dollars on Wall Street during the nineteen-eighties.
Several leaders whose political leverage came from their caste or regional backgrounds performed poorly, while some who built a reputation for things like building schools and roads were rewarded by voters.
I caught up with Xavier Buyse, CEO of Adsmedia, a mobile advertising company whose platform leverages a variety of "opt-in" data sources - from location, to carrier data, to information from social media to deliver highly targeted ads to mobile device users.
Editor's note: Navin Chaddha is a Managing Director at Mayfield Fund, a global early-stage venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management, whose portfolio companies leverage the drivers of cloud/SaaS, mobile, social, energytech and big data.
These tumors are intrinsically sensitive to DNA damage response inhibitors, such as the PARP inhibitors, whose putative efficacy leverages upon a synthetic lethal effect [ 9] in which cell death results from mutations in two or more genes but not in each gene individually (reviewed in [ 10]).
Those American banks whose regulator imposed a leverage ratio had an incentive to move assets off their balance-sheets.
All true, of course, with Citigroup — a bank that Mr. Geithner himself regulated — being Exhibit A. But the solution the document proposed is "a new, more robust supervisory regime for any firm whose combination of size, leverage, and interconnectedness could pose a threat to financial stability if it failed".
In fact, these same sources say SoftBank's investors believe they'll see at least a 20percentt internal rate of return (IRR) over time from Vision Fund as it funds whole sectors being disrupted by artificial intelligence and machine learning — from pharma, to utilities, to ridesharing — and whose data SoftBank can leverage into an endless stream of opportunities.
Andrew Peck, a 31-year-old unemployed ad account executive in Manhattan, lards his résumé with terms like "leveraging synergies" whose meaning he confesses is murky.
