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Exceptional Contemporary Villa in Marbella, Spain

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Nestled in the most prestigious residential area in the Costa del Sol, Sierra Blanca, yet very close to the golden beaches and the glamour of Puerto Banús, this beautifully designed contemporary home re-defines true luxury in Marbella by offering an exceptional design in a prime location.

The villa is located on an elevated corner plot that enjoys full privacy and breathtaking views of the Mediterranean Sea. The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom villa has been built with a philosophy of excellence.

Splendidly set on a large plot offering manicured tropical gardens and a large swimming pool, the villa has been built with top-quality materials and with strong attention to detail to guarantee the ultimate comfort and the most modern interiors.

Constructed over four levels, all accessible through a private lift, the villa has been carefully designed to offer the perfect distribution of space and light. The living area features high-ceilings, double-size bedrooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, a modern kitchen with top of the line appliances and a state-of-the-art SPA with sauna, hammam and additional space for entertainment.

This villa is one of the most attractive estates in Marbella, offering an impressive fusion of style and sophistication to answer the demand of the most discerning buyer. The villa is listed for $11.8 million.

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Redefining Food: How Omar & Cybille St.Aude Tate Plan To Challenge A Nation’s Culinary Tastes With Honeysuckle

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Entrepreneur, chef, poet and activist, Omar Tate certainly dons multiple hats. But the one that he’s the proudest of is ‘chef’.

But cooking never came naturally to Omar, who has been involved with his craft right from the time he was a young boy. He would cook dinners for his younger siblings while his mother – a single parent – was out at work. It was only later in his teens that Omar realized his passion for food.

This passion has led Omar Tate – one of the most promising chefs in the United States – to start a new revolution around food and the culinary arts. He and his wife – Cybille St.Aude Tate – are on a mission to transform the food & restaurant industry from being “platforms and theater for the rich” into a space of community & respect.

The Honeysuckle Projects

Honeysuckle – Omar Tate’s celebrated food joint – has been an immensely personal project. Started in 2017, Honeysuckle was born out of the need to create representation for Black and Afro-centric cuisines in the mainstream American culinary industry.

In the early days of his career as a chef (before Honeysuckle), Omar specialized in Italian and French food – two cuisines that America loves. Although blessed with promising skills, Omar found himself being sidelined and his creativity questioned by the leading players in the industry, mainly due to his race. A case in point, he states in his interview with Something Curated, was the job rejection he received from an Italian eatery chain, because he “didn’t look like the person they wanted to run their restaurant”.

This incident prompted Omar to take a closer look at issues of representation in the American food industry and re-evaluate his country’s culinary tastes and practices. He visited the South – specifically the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved. There he learned the history of his family, the legacy of the African slave trade and their impact on African-American cuisine.

From this thought grew Honeysuckle – a place dedicated to celebrating America’s Black and Afro-centric culinary traditions. But Honeysuckle isn’t your run-of-the-mill restaurant. It is a Pop-up or “traveling dining experience”, where food and contemporary black culture meld together seamlessly.

Honeysuckle offers a themed dinner with four courses, made using ingredients that are native to African countries. The food here isn’t plated and served on fine china, but instead in a takeout box. Tucked away in each takeout box is a poem penned by Omar, an ode to the main ingredient of the food he’s prepared that day. 

The idea is to show food through contemporary black eyes and to share the reality of black life experiences in a white America. His pop-up restaurant not only celebrates food, but there’s art and music, all created by and inspired by artists of African heritage.

Omar’s wife Cybille, who is an equally reputed chef of Haitian heritage, adds her own Caribbean culinary heritage to the food they make in Honeysuckle. With her help, Honeysuckle has been able to offer diners an unforgettable culinary experience.

Re-defining what it means to eat

Honeysuckle was started first in New York. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Omar announced his plans to build a large, membership-based eatery, which would also house a contemporary art gallery, a café and a supper club.

But once the lockdown was announced and panic about the virus increased racial tensions across the country, Omar realized the need of the hour was family and community. Leaving New York, he and Cybille moved to West Philadelphia, where his mother lives.

There they started the Honeysuckle pop-up again. It was at this time that Omar found out about his grandfather James Jamison’s work as an activist in the 60’s. His grandfather served the Philadelphia black community through home cooked meals and free lessons to black children who were denied education. This inspired him towards a different dream. He wished to build a Honeysuckle Community Center where people of African heritage and other minority communities could break bread and be heard without being disrespected and denied.  

Through their community center, Omar and Cybille doesn’t just want to feed people, but nourish them – body, mind and soul. They intend to do this with art, music, poetry, black history and foods inspired by African-American legacies. For example, one meal Omar plans to incorporate in the community center restaurant is the custardy bean pie topped with espresso whipped cream. This is an ode to his Nation of Islam upbringing. The culture there rejected the ingredients commonly used in soul food – ingredients which were forced upon enslaved Africans because of their low cost to slave owners. Another dish that he wants to include is the “Remnants on a South Philly Stoop” – a dish made using sunflower seeds, crab, garlic powder and charred lemon, which is pretty common in the Philadelphia black community.

Other items on Omar & Cybille’s menu are inspired by real-life incidents surrounding black rights. For example, The Philadelphia Negro survey, the 1972 MOVE bombings and the 2020 Black Life Matters movement.

Currently, Omar and Cybille are in the process of acquiring funds to buy a permanent building for their proposed community center. They wish for it to house a grocery store that stocks all ingredients commonly used in African inspired cuisines. If their dream is realized, the Honeysuckle Community Center will be one of the largest black-owned businesses in Philadelphia – a state where only a handful of black-owned businesses exist.

Bridging the gap between communities

Outlining their vision for Honeysuckle and American food culture, Omar and Cybille hope that their pop-up and community center will bridge the gap between minority communities and the white community in America. They believe that Omar’s experience as a French and Italian chef, plus their African culinary heritage, will give them the unique power to do so.

The couple hopes to beautifully bring together disparate elements of American cuisine, creating signature dishes that represent what the United States should be – a home for people of all races.

Right now, Omar has a GoFundMe campaign where he hopes to raise $250,000 for the brick-and-mortar Honeysuckle restaurant and community center. As of writing, he has raised $94,758. Each contributor will receive original artwork from Omar as a thank you gift. Contributors who donate more than $100 will also receive a signature Honeysuckle bean pie in the mail. With these investments, Omar and Cybille hope to open the Honeysuckle brick-and-mortar restaurant in early 2022.

4iQ Strengthens Hospital Cybersecurity Free of Charge to Help Boost Covid19 Efforts

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The coronavirus pandemic has been very hard on all of us. But it has been especially challenging for the medical community. Hospitals, private practices, pharmacies, paramedics and other health care facilities have become the most vulnerable populations to the Covid19 virus.

Inundated with work and stretched for resources, many health care facilities had to face the additional challenge of cybersecurity breaches as well. But one company – 4iQ – has stepped up its game and offered cybersecurity protection to vulnerable hospitals in the United States. Here’s the best part – it’s done this free of charge as part of its social responsibility outreach.

What is 4iQ?

Los Altos, California based4iQ is a cybersecurity specialist dedicated to protecting people and their data from prying eyes. They use state-of-the-art intelligence to identify vulnerabilities online and collate compromised personal identity information on the open source and the dark web. Their cybersecurity solutions are geared to help individuals and companies prevent fraud, domestic/international terrorism, money laundering and other heinous cybercrimes.

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on cybersecurity

During the coronavirus pandemic, the number of cybersecurity issues increased by 150%! According to the Interpol’s international cybercrime survey titled “Global Landscape On Covid19 Cyberthreats”, countries listed the following cybersecurity concerns:

  • 59% of countries confirmed there was an increase in fraud and phishing incidents.
  • 36% said a higher number of malware-infested emails were circulating in their countries. The most vulnerable to this type of attack were for-profit companies, who were attacked with ransomware and spoofed emails. Individual employees were also targeted with ransomware, as more people worked from home on less-secure networks.
  • 22% of countries noted malicious URLs, especially those URLs which claimed to collect patient details for medical reasons. These have increased identity and data theft. Additionally, spoofed URLs masquerading as Zoom invites or Google Meet team invites compromised millions of documents in organizations.
  • 14% stated that misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic was their most pressing problem.

4iQ had also conducted its own research about covid-19 and cybercrime. It published its findings in the COVID-19 Threat Report. Here is what they say:

  • There were numerous hoax political campaigns emailed or uploaded online to mislead international governments/media.
  • Fake emails were sent to hospitals and other healthcare services pretending to be the World Health Organization to gain access to patient information. In some instances, hospitals have been targeted by ransomware groups who pretended to be Government agencies and banking institutions, putting patients at huge risk.
  • There was a surge in the number of underground hate forums on social media – with a large number of anti-vaccination campaigns.

Why have cyber security threats increased during the coronavirus pandemic?

According to experts at 4iQ, the main reason for cybersecurity breaches during any challenging event/period is the desire for information.

Lack of information can make anyone feel scared and vulnerable. During the coronavirus pandemic in particular, when people had limited awareness about what was happening outside their homes and they had lesser access to first-hand information, fear and uncertainty were high.

Since healthcare agencies and hospitals were designated as the first-hand sources of coronavirus-related information, they become the primary victims of cybercrimes.

How did 4iQ’s service help during the coronavirus pandemic?

In order to help provide cybersecurity protection to hospitals, 4iQ offered its range of cutting-edge cybersecurity services.

Typically, these services are charged based on the size of the client, the type of investigative support they need and the nature of cybercrime they’re currently dealing with. But during the coronavirus pandemic 4iQ provided all of these services completely free of charge to hospitals and other health care facilities who were at risk of attack.

Through this, the California based company hoped to reduce ransomware encounters in vulnerable facilities, enabling the hospitals to remain equipped to care for covid19 patients.

4iQ’s free services included:

  • Hunter

The Hunter software is a powerful investigative tool built to recognize the nature and number of threats in the user’s network. The software empowered hospitals to quickly collect cybersecurity information across various channels, platforms and websites. Any incident that seemed unusual on the hospital’s network was picked up and the activity was recorded. Visualization tools helped convert this data into an understandable format.

Because of Hunter, hospitals could easily conduct investigations into each identified risk. Multiple investigations could also be run simultaneously to understand their riskiness. Hunter helped hospitals quickly identify, record and track threat actors as well.

  • IDTheft

Hospitals collect a lot of information from patients and their families. This included name, age, occupation, marital status, medical insurance details, bank account numbers, credit card details, etc. When this is updated into the patient management system, it becomes vulnerable to any spyware that might infect the system. If hacked, these patient details can be copied and stored on the dark web. In some cases, this data is sold illegally to other companies or criminals.

4iQ offered its IDTheft software to help hospitals keep track of the patient and employee information they collect. IDTheft was used to check the recesses of the dark web and open-source software platforms to identify if the hospital’s data was hacked and published there.

If any data was found to be compromised, IDTheft verified its authenticity, destroyed fakes/replicas and informed the hospital of the breach. To provide further data protection, 4iQ hashed all hospital patient records and identities.

  • IDLake

4iQ used the IDLake software to provide additional cybersecurity benefits to at-risk health care facilities. This service searches through the open source and the dark web to identify any breach or attack that might have occurred. They trace back to the source of the breach, collecting extensive technical information about how the breach occurred. This allowed 4iQ to judge how vulnerable a particular hospital was to each type of attack and put in place the relevant cybersecurity measures.

This feature, in particular, was helpful in alerting hospital management about older records of people who were no longer patients there. IDLake also helped identify any issues that were affecting old social/bank accounts that patients or their families had abandoned or forgotten about.

4iQ’s contribution to preventing the spread of misinformation

4iQ’s generous donation of their time and cybersecurity technology to at-risk hospitals truly helped them be better prepared to heal and treat coronavirus patients. 4iQ put in place numerous encryption protocols to protect hospital data from exposure. They also put in place user access permissions, ensuring that hackers did not have access to sensitive information.

By doing this, they limited the chances of confidential information escaping into the hands of malicious individuals. This, in turn, ensured that hospitals were free to make smart decisions when making health announcements and advisories, and provide their patients and their families the care they deserved.

For $85M: A Private Island Paradise In The Bahamas

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A once in a lifetime incredible private island can be yours for $85 million (£65 million).

Little Pipe Cay located in the most beautiful part of the Exumas island chain is the private island paradise that you have dreamed about owning. This luxe island has featured as a backdrop to Johnny Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean and a handful of James Bond movies.

 Located 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of Nassau and 270 miles from Miami, the 38-acre private island is home to five separate houses and cottages, each with a stunning ocean view. There are a total of nine bedrooms and nine bathrooms spread across the villas. There are enough acres to add further accommodation if needed.

A sea barn contains boats and water sports equipment and there are several hundred feet of dock frontage to accommodate small and large boats, with a deeper draft dock by the operations end of the island.

If you’re going to purchase this private island, you’re going to need a boat or seaplane. Alternatively, there are many suitable surrounding locations to moor your superyacht.

The property also has four pristine private beaches, swimming pool, spa, staff accommodation, various outbuildings, and 24-hour security.

When you purchase this private retreat, your neighbors include movie star Johnny Depp, who owns nearby Little Hall’s Pond Cay, and billionaire Ed Bosarge. Also, the luxurious island retreat is only three miles away from Staniel Cay and a boat’s hop from Big Major Cay, also known as “Pig Island” – famed for its swimming pigs.

What is impressive about this private island is its raw natural beauty. The current owners, over the last 15 years, have transformed Little Pipe Cay into the perfect private island retreat. Little Pipe Cay is one of the top private islands in the Bahamas, if not in the Caribbean.

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The Beginner’s Guide to FinTech

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It wouldn’t be surprising to know that you’re bumping into a term called “FinTech” almost everywhere and have no clue as to what it means. This new industry buzzword is something that every entrepreneur wants to understand.

“Financial Technologies” or FinTech, refers to technologies that are implemented in the sector of financial services. Financial institutions are the primary users of these technologies as they help them manage back-end operations. However, a global guide to FinTech and future payment trends is increasingly becoming the face of technologies which are disrupting conventional financial services such as money transfers, fundraising, asset management, loans, and mobile payments.

There has been a significant increase in the worldwide investment in financial technologies over the last few years. According to an Accenture report, there was a rise in FinTech investment from $930 million to $12 billion between 2008 and 2015.

It’s important to point out that the industry is presently in its early stage of growth, but it is developing at a very rapid pace. The providers of traditional financial services are now eagerly embracing these new technologies. The major growth driving factor for this new industry is the increased demand by customers for cheaper and faster services. Also, the constant advancement in daily-use technologies, such as the widespread use of smartphones, has helped create the perfect conditions for the development of FinTech.

The impact of FinTech on your business

In the old days, if an entrepreneur wanted to kick-start a business, they would first consider going to a local financial institution, such as a bank, to get a loan. The other option would be to approach traditional investors for funding. If companies were looking to facilitate credit card payments for their customers, they would need to identify a credit provider along with sourcing the bulky transaction equipment. The good news is that FinTech is changing that for all businesses.

A Global Guide to Fintech and Future Payment Trends

Recent reports on business trends suggest that FinTechs such as mobile payments, money transfers, and crowdfunding is slowly altering the way in which small businesses set up, receive payments, and expand. In other words, these technologies are making it quite easy to operate a business.

Below is some common jargon that is used in the world of FinTech:

Incubators and Accelerators

Incubators and accelerators are similar business organizations that select startups or independent entrepreneurs for a limited-period partnership and these things best describes fintech startups. These organizations typically take an equity wager for mentoring, training, and facilitating introductions to investors and clients. Incubators hold specialization in helping entrepreneurs who have brilliant ideas but lack a business plan for pursuing them. Accelerators, on the other hand, work with startups (or early stage firms) and support them in growth acceleration.

Bitcoin and Blockchain

Blockchain is a term that is floating around constantly in the FinTech industry. In simple terms, it refers to a data record that is not held by any one single entity; instead, it is distributed among multiple different entities. The most common example of this type of technology is ‘Bitcoin’, a cryptocurrency that uses blockchain for recording its ownership and distribution.

Gazelles and Unicorns

Gazelles and Unicorns are terms that indicate very successful startup businesses. In particular, ‘gazelles’ refers to companies that show a 20 percent growth per year for at least four years, with 100,000 as the minimum base. On the other hand, ‘unicorns’ are firms that enjoy market worth exceeding $1bn. However, the label is surrounded by serious controversy, owing to allegations of cloudy funding rounds and inflated valuations.

API

API or ‘Application Programming Interface’ refers to a series of rules and regulations which software programs need to follow for all purposes of interaction. These rules facilitate faster software development as they allow a programmer to utilize the elements of already existing software.

Software-as-a-Service

Software-as-a-Service or SaaS refers to a standard instrument that is utilized by startups for providing ‘cloud services’ to their customers. This instrument is extremely useful as users are no longer required to purchase, download and use the software on a computer/data center, but can easily use it on the Internet for a set fee. A huge advantage of SaaS is that it helps cut costs for customers while allowing startups to quickly expand their businesses.

Robo-advisors

The term ‘Robo-advisors’ refers to an automated financial advice provision that works on Artificial Intelligence. This may cover a wide range of services such as investment advice and management, credit advice, and mortgage. Robo-advisor platforms are helpful as they allow for online portfolio management without any human intervention.

Point of sale

Point of sale of POS is the step that involves the capturing of customer payment data at a specific physical location (upon purchase of goods or services). The information might be collected using various devices such as cash registers, magnetic card readers, computers, bar code scanners and so on. Some popular and best describes FinTech startups companies have already managed to develop POS apps for facilitating payment processes.

SSO

SSO refers to ‘Single Sign-On authentication’ that eliminates the need for passwords and IDs by allowing a single set of sign-in credentials that can be used for all applications.

FinTech is a term that can extend to a broad range of modern financial services. This exciting field is fast taking over traditional banking and giving a major facelift to the industry. Besides supporting the underbanked, FinTech technologies are quickly getting integrated into several aspects of our daily life.

Jaguar Unveils Limited-Edition F-Type

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Jaguar is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the legendary E-type with a special-edition Sherwood Green 2021 F-type called the Heritage 60 Edition. The honorary cars are limited to just 60 examples worldwide, and their special-edition badging is shared with six 3.8-liter E-type 60 Collection cars restored by Jaguar Classic for the occasion.

Sherwood Green hasn’t been an option on a Jag since the 1960s, and it’s being resurrected to adorn the Heritage 60 Edition. The limited-edition cars sit on exclusive gloss-black 20-inch wheels and have gloss-black and chrome accents and black brake calipers. The green paint job looks dashing paired with a two-tone Caraway (tan) and Ebony Windsor (black) leather interior with an E-type–inspired aluminum console trim. “E-Type 60th Anniversary” logos are stitched into the headrests and embellish the doorsills.

The 2021 F-type Heritage 60 Edition is based on the F-type R model and is available as either a coupe or convertible. Both are powered by a 575-hp supercharged 5.0-liter V-8 that sends power to all four wheels through an eight-speed automatic gearbox. 

Each of the 60 special-edition F-types will be built at Jaguar’s Castle Bromwich plant in the United Kingdom and rounded off by the SV Bespoke team at Jaguar’s Special Vehicle Operations in Warwickshire. They’ll arrive in the U.S. in March, although Jaguar hasn’t announced pricing yet. For reference, the 2021 F-type R starts at $104,350 for the coupe and $107,050 for the convertible.

In addition, Jaguar’s Classic operation will build six matched pairs of restored 3.8-litre E-Types. They’re based on the original prototype cars – with nameplates 77RW and 9600HP – including the one driven from Coventry to Geneva to launch the car at the Swiss city’s motor show in 1961. 

What Business Leaders Can Learn from Sheldon Adelson’s Rollercoaster Ride to Success

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Sheldon Adelson is a self-made American business mogul who has influenced many with his amazing work as a philanthropist and an entrepreneur. Considered to be one of the most successful casino owners in the world, his net worth is estimated to be around $40 billion. He is the founder and CEO of several high-end operations around the world. These businesses range from the Los Angeles Sands Corporation, Marina Bay Sands of Singapore, Las Vegas Review Journal, Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom and several others. To date, he is counted among the richest businessmen of the world by Forbes. His rise from an immigrant cab driver’s son to being one of the richest business magnates around the world is a story in entrepreneurship that has influenced many.

Early Life

A child of Great Depression, Sheldon Adelson was born on 4th August 1933 to a low-income immigrant family in Dorchester. His father, Arthur Adelson, was a cab driver, and his mother, Sarah Adelson had a knitting shop. Sheldon started his career at the early age of 12 when he borrowed some money from his uncle to get a newspaper selling license. He worked several odd jobs as a mortgage broker, financial consultant, and investment advisor in the coming years. He joined the New York City college but later dropped out to pursue his dream of being an entrepreneur. What followed is an inspiring tale of the successful journey of a business-minded and strong willed person.

Starting Career

Sheldon Adelson showed his entrepreneurial side early in life. At the age of 16 when most people are still unsure as to what they want to do in life, Adelson had his own business. It was a small company of candy vending machines. Later he worked in the fields of finance, banking, real estate, and tourism sectors. You can say that though he had a businessman’s spirit and soul, he had to work hard as an employee first. This helped him to understand the nuances and investments of his chosen field. All in all, it was not a smooth ride.

Adelson’s financial career did not take off on a very successful note when several of his business ventures failed. The declining stock market also added to his woes. Later, he entered the real estate arena and became successful by building condominiums from apartment buildings. However, this venture too failed after some time. The steep ups and downs experienced by Sheldon could have deterred any person but he pursued  his dream of achieving success relentlessly by searching for new avenues for himself. He did not know how and when to quit.

Ride to Success

Adelson first tasted success in 1972 when he acquired a small publishing house and entered the media business. It was while attending a trade show on condominium conversion that he had a vision of using trade shows as ‘living magazines’. He visualized the increasing need for trade shows in the computer industry. This became his big break. He sold his condo business and founded Interface Group in 1972. Later he staged his adventure by the name of COMDEX or Computer Dealers Exhibition. This show went on for many years and became the top computer trade show in the world. It expanded to several other cities and became a huge success.

The year 1988 also saw Adelson investing in his first casino. He purchased the aging Sands Casino at a steal. Later the place was demolished and in its place, Venetian Casino was built. This was just the start of his casino business which later on became one of the largest integrated casino chains in the world. It was in 1995 when Adelson became one of the only two American people to receive the Chinese license for a casino empire in Macau. In 2010, he opened a massive billion-dollar casino complex in Singapore of which the impressive Sky Lounge is also a part.

Adelson’s Philanthropy

During the start of the 2000s, Adelson showcased his philanthropic side by giving millions of dollars to several charitable organizations. He is a devout supporter of many Jewish and Israeli causes. His funding contributions showcased his concern towards cultural, religious, medical, and educational research projects. He has also contributed towards ‘Birthright Israel’, Holocaust Martyrs, and several other trusts and charities.

Sheldon Adelson’s rollercoaster ride to success can be aptly termed as a rag to riches story. Despite losing multimillion-dollar businesses twice in his life, he did not give up. His ideas failed, but he kept himself open for better avenues. This was a huge thing for a college dropout who had to borrow a sum of $200 for his first entrepreneurial venture. He jumped around several odd jobs in his middle age and went bankrupt a number of times. Adversity was a constant in Sheldon Adelson’s life, yet he always won.

His out of the box thinking and forward mentality kept him ahead in the game and led him to his enormous success. He has been often awarded for his works and contribution to society. He, in his own words, looks at every business and asks, “How long will it last and how can he as a business person, change the status quo of it?” This thinking and will to establish himself as a person of reckoning is what made him an inspiration to all the entrepreneurs today.

The Richest YouTubers In 2020

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With almost 5 billion views a day, YouTube has gone from 1-minute skateboarding miss videos to a factory of mega-millionaires. Many of those millionaires are not even legally old enough to buy an alcoholic beverage.

Some people are still surprised that money can be made via YouTube. Not everyone makes it big but there are some great examples of people who have stepped outside the 9-to-5 to do something more interesting and have made a successful career out of it. YouTubers primarily make money off YouTube through advertising. Of course, Google takes its own cut – about 45% as their own cut.

Despite this, there are the richest youtubers who have cracked the model and have built their own empires. Their business models have been the subject of business case studies because of their novelty and success. Let’s look at a rundown of the seven richest YouTube sensations of 2020.

1Jeffree Star

One of the most popular and polarizing figures on YouTube, Jeffree Star’s humble beginnings started on Myspace. He became well known for his personality and androgynous appearance which got him fans, particularly outcast teenagers.

Jeffree’s love for makeup started when he was 13, and he would experiment with his mother’s makeup. He made a brief attempt at a music career, which did not amount to much. In 2014, he started his own cosmetics company and promoted it on YouTube. The initial line sold out within minutes. In 2018, he reportedly sold 100 million dollars’ worth of makeup. Star also has investments in real estate and marijuana businesses which are hugely profitable. Jeffree Star has a net worth of about $200 million.

2PewDiePie

Also known as Felix Kjellberg, PewDiePie is worth about $40 million as of 2020. A video game commentator and Internet celebrity from Sweden, PewDiePie’s humble beginnings were just a kid in the Chalmers University of Technology who played more video games than his parents wanted him to. PewDiePie dropped out of university and pursued a career in YouTube full time, working at a hot dog stand and selling artwork to sustain himself.

In 2011, he quit his job at the hot dog stand when he hit 60,000 subscribers. By the end of 2013, he had nearly 19 million. His format consists of him playing video games and supplying his audiences with humorous commentary. He has expanded outside video games to other content, since then. He has had several run-ins with controversy due to certain comments making light of subjects like terrorist groups. Despite that, he remains one of the highest-earning YouTubers to this day.

3DanTDM

Daniel Middleton is an English gamer with a subscriber base of 24 million subscribers who rose to popularity for his Minecraft game commentaries. Middleton has since then expanded to reviews of video games and video gameplay of other games.

Middleton has also published several graphic novels and starred in a few television shows. However, the majority of his income still seems to flow from his Minecraft videos and commentary.

4Ryan’s World

Ryan Kaji has an impressive net worth of $32 million as of 2020. Something else you should know about Ryan Kaji: he is 8 years old. Kaji started by making videos of himself opening toys and playing with them. Somehow, these videos garnered millions of views and thousands of subscribers. “Huge Eggs Surprise,” a video by Kaji, got him 1.9 billion views. Toy manufacturers have cashed in on the impact Kaji has had, as he is known for his ability to work his audience.

5Dude Perfect

Five former college roommates come together to create YouTube’s second most-subscribed sports channel. Content created consists of various sports stunts and gravity-defying trick shots. Their first video, a compilation of trick shots made by the buddies when they were in college, went viral.

Dude Perfect is worth nearly $30 million and the guys put their skills down to lots of practice, in spite of most people alleging the stunts are all about the camera angles. The “dudes” all hold Christian values and have even turned down an alcohol sponsorship and certain features in men’s magazines. These values have helped them earn a family-friendly subscriber base and even their own iPhone game.

6Markiplier

Worth $28 million, Mark Fischbach started on the back of a difficult time in his life in 2012. He decided to take matters into his own hands and do his own thing: make sketch comedy and play video games. He started to release videos that were a mix of his two loves, particularly in the realm of indie and horror video games.

In the middle, Mark’s YouTube account was prevented from being monetized, due to certain technical issues. He started a new channel called Markiplier Game and asked all his subscribers to jump ship, which they did. By the end of 2013, he earned himself a million subscribers. That is very quick in YouTube terms. His channel currently has 23 million subscribers. Impressive for a guy playing video games in Hawaii.

7VanossGaming

Video gamers make up a huge chunk of this list. Evan Fong started the Vanoss Gaming channel in 2011. He dropped out of his second year in college to pursue YouTube full time and had to convince his parents that it was a viable career option. Fong eventually got mainstream attention which is evident from his 11 million subscribers in 2015. Considered one of the main video game commentary figures, Evan Fong is worth a whopping $25 million.

This $550 Million Concept Yacht Looks Like a Giant Shark

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The Lazzarini Design Studio, an Italian firm known for its nature-inspired approach, has created plans for an opulent 501-feet 153-meter megayacht that looks like a shark.

The yacht’s enclosed upper level is designed to mimic the teeth and nose of a shark, and extendable “fins” open into additional terraces.

Spread across six different decks, Prodigium features three oversized pools, with waterfalls cascading from each pool into the one on the deck below, three helicopters with its own hangars, and every other water toy you could imagine.

It can carry a total of eight tenders stored across two garages, and it has its very own port to accommodate a second 30-meter yacht.  

Prodigium features an upper deck constructed from carbon and aluminum designed specifically to resemble the form of a shark. Prodigium is inspired by Roman architecture and is equipped with Roman statues, and two Roman columns are positioned at the sides of the main entrance to support the upper structure.

The concept also features large solar panels that cover the upper deck. The yacht has a hybrid propulsion system resulting in a cruising speed of 22 knots. The yacht can accommodate up to 44 guests, 18 staff, and 12 crew.

This vessel is the second of six nature-inspired yacht designs Lazzarini is working on completing. It revealed designs for the first in the series — a swan-shaped concept yacht — earlier this year. That concept, the Avanguardia, incorporates subtle curves to create the silhouette of a swan. 

If this shark concept comes to life, Prodigium would be one of the largest vessels to sail the seas. The design team expects it will take at least 28 months to build this yacht once a buyer has been found. 

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Solidia – The New Jersey-based Smart Tech Company That’s Set To Make The Construction Industry Eco-Friendly

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In the time you read this sentence, more than 19,000 bathtubs of concrete will be poured for the global building industry. Concrete is the foundation of the building industry, our attempt to conquer nature and protect us from the elements. They keep our feet out of the mud and our bodies out of the cold and rain. Concrete also lays to waste vast tracts of soil and chokes our water bodies.

Between 4 and 7 percent of all greenhouse gases are emitted from cement production. 3 trillion liters of water are used in the production of concrete every year. Carbon pollution and water scarcity are among the most daunting challenges facing humankind in the present day. Population growth and industrial explosion are threatening to increase these risks if we continue with our existing systems.

Traditional cement manufacture

Cement is manufactured by heating a mixture of limestone, sand, and water in a rotating kiln set at 1,450 degrees Centigrade. The end product is known as the cement clinker. Cement clinker is extracted from the kiln, cooled, and ground to the powder known as cement. Cement and concrete are often terms used synonymously, but they are different. Cement is used in the production of concrete and can be thought of as the glue that holds concrete together.

40% of the emissions released are a by-product of the fuels combusted in the process. The remaining 60% is released as process emissions when limestone is heated. Heated limestone gives rise to carbon atoms and the formation of carbon dioxide inside the kiln. The cement and concrete industry is working hard to reduce the emissions and carbon footprint of the procedure. Solidia is trying hard to be part of the solution.

The history of Solidia

A decade ago, two scientists from Rutgers, Vahit Atakan and Rik Riman wanted to see if they could swap out limestone in the traditional process. They settled on a synthetic form of the mineral wollastonite. Solidia Technologies has acquired a patent for the process, which uses less energy and lower temperatures, thus reducing the process’s carbon footprint by nearly 70%.

Who they are

Solidia is a cement and concrete manufacturing company with a difference. Their unique patented technologies make it easy and profitable to make cement and concrete using less energy, less water, and lower emissions.

Core technologies

Two core technologies characterize Solidia’s approach and success:

  • Sustainable cement production technology, and
  • Sustainable concrete production technology.

Using artificial intelligence, production is equipped with intelligent curing that reduces waste, optimizes systems, and enhances quality control processes. Carbon emissions are addressed from both ends of the manufacturing process: within and without. Solidia’s technology reduces carbon emissions released in the production of cement while utilizing the carbon to turn it into calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate then becomes a part of the concrete.

Solidia has had success in manufacturing cement using its process on 2 continents. The company has run successful demonstrations of concrete production in 50 manufacturing facilities across 10 countries.

Adoption by the industry

As a solution, Solidia’s technology is easy to adopt by players in the cement industry. Buying an entirely new kiln or changing any of the machinery in the manufacturing process is impractical and expensive. It would hamper the adoption of climate-friendly techniques.

Solidia’s process can be undertaken in existing manufacturing facilities and at about the same expense. CEO Tom Schuler believes that it will soon cost less than traditional cement manufacture.

The impact of Solidia’s technologies

Widespread adoption can have the following incredible impacts on the environment:

  • Remove 1.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide from the air,
  • Reduce the equivalent of 260 million oil barrels of energy consumption,
  • Save 3 trillion liters of water,
  • Save the planet from suffering 100 million tonnes of concrete in landfills,
  • Halve mercury, nitrogen, and carbon emissions,
  • Mitigate carbon taxes for many industry players as stricter emission regulations are enforced,
  • Help the construction industry reach or surpass their carbon reduction goals.

Benefits of adopting Solidia technologies

Solidia does not just want to change the world. It wants people to be doing good business at the same time. Here are the benefits of adopting Solidia’s technologies for your own business:

  • It can be implemented using existing manufacturing facilities, processes, and raw materials,
  • Curing is done with carbon dioxide, saving on the water almost entirely,
  • Curing is completed in a single day as against traditional concrete which can take up to 28 days,
  • Its quick curing time gives a business the capacity to service just-in-time production and delivery,
  • No efflorescence,
  • It is more durable and offers more color versatility than traditional cement and concrete.

Partnership with LafargeHolcim

Solidia recently bagged a partnership with LafargeHolcim, one of the world’s leading building solutions corporations, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions across their value chain. The partnership will aim to do this through a combination of carbon emission reduction as well as carbon capture and storage within the blocks. Industrial pilots are ongoing in the UK, France, Germany, and Canada, with other pilot projects being instituted further.

Solidia is to supply the curing chambers while carbon dioxide is procured from external parties. LafargeHolcim is working towards utilizing the carbon dioxide captured in kilns located in Europe and North America.

Tomorrow’s world

Solidia uses the power of good governance, business, and awareness to create the world they would like to live in. The company shows us how harnessing the power of business and entrepreneurship can lead to better communities and better lives. They embody the principle of doing well by doing good.

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