Who: Chief Executive Director of Free the Children and Co-Founder of Leadership Today.
Quotable: “I was complaining about how I didn’t enjoy reading the newspaper in the morning because it was full of bad news. Desmond [Tutu] looked at me and said he loved reading the paper, he called the bad news ‘God’s Prayer List’. These are all the things we have to fix.”
Who: Founder of Monster.com and Eons, Inc.
Friends: Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst Partners, who put up the majority of the $10 million in initial financing for Eons, Inc. The venture capital firm helped start Internet giants such as Yahoo! and Google.
“Young people are bright people. They are not indentured to received wisdom.” That was the rationale behind the monetary support of Martin Peretz, editor of the New Republic, for Gotham Partners, a hedge fund started by two freshly minted HBS grads in 1996. Inexperience didn’t keep Bill Ackman, 26, or David Berkowitz, 31, from jumping on the hedge fund wagon, nor did it keep investors from putting up $30 million in cash.
Who: Co-founder and executive director of the Fragile X research foundation FRAXA.
High Praise: James D. Watson, Nobel Prize winner, has this to say of Clapp’s work: “FRAXA has been hugely effective... experience shows that dedicated, resourceful, and, above all, motivated organizations like FRAXA sometimes do hold the key to cracking these diseases."
Who: Norwegian entrepreneur who now runs Sebastian Holdings, a buyout firm.
Living Dangerously: He nearly died in 1997 after being buried in an avalanche. Two other skiers perished. Vik was not breathing and had no pulse when he was found. Emergency medical personnel managed to revive him.
Spotlight: With a skyrocketing portion of the nation’s output going to healthcare spending—thrice as much today as in 1960—observers both professional and lay have asked the same question: WTF? Amy Finkelstein may have the beginnings of the weird, head-scratch–inducing answer.
Who: Singer/Songwriter
Secret Aspirations: “When I was little I was obsessed with train conductors. In junior high school I wanted to make computer games. In high school and college I dreamed of being financially stable and well-adjusted. But this is all highly speculative.“
Politics: “I'm a registered Democrat in Massachusetts. (Cuz the ladies like it.)”
Friends: She’s played with the likes of Eric Clapton, Wyclef Jean, and John Legend, but her most supportive fellow musicians have been Edwin McCain and Citizen Cope. She’s now on the road, opening for McCain.
Net Worth: “I was living in Cambridge, but as I’m a musician, and my boyfriend is a stand-up comic, we didn’t have the funds to stay. Talk to us in a year, maybe we’ll be in Medford.”
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