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"A particularly hair-raising moment was when my cofounders asked, 'If you have control, what happens when you die?' He said something like '...maybe it should pass to my children.'"

From BBC • May 12, 2026

But he added, “I don’t think there’s a lot of appetite for something like the go-go days of 2017, 2018,” referring to an era when producers spent with abandon to grow at a fast pace.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

"It affects the community when something like that happens, especially when a rescuer is lost and those people risk their lives to go and help other people in difficulty," Margie Fitzgerald said.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

“In the United States, most of the time, festivals tend to be pretty homogeneous, and the bands are similar. That’s why I like the eclecticness of something like BeachLife.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Still, if a team of experts had set out to create a human being to maximize the likelihood that he would terrify a Wall Street customer, they might have designed something like Lippmann.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis