Personal Highlights:

• Khazanah Nasional, but nothing like Mubadala. It would take six years for Low to establish himself as an Al Mubarak–like figure controlling his own fund...
• Low’s ability to bring Mubadala to the table marked a revival after the mess of the failed condominium deal. He latched onto the opportunity it...
• Next, Low had these look-alike offshore companies take minority stakes in the Malaysian construction firms. It now would appear to any prospective business partner doing...

Personal Highlights:

• As Mike knew, addresses are usually typed only for business mail, not personal. The package also had a slight bump, which was suspicious, considering it came from the Netherlands.
• Once an underachieving, largely browbeaten high school chemistry teacher, Walter White found in drugs the best way to express his technical brilliance as a chemist...
• Variety Jones was preternaturally aware of these hidden dynamics. He had been warning his boss about this for some time, pressing Dread to at least...

Personal Highlights:

• If most of what people wanted to do online was to be able to tell their family, friends, and strangers what they were up to,...
• The system of near-universal surveillance had been set up not just without our consent, but in a way that deliberately hid every aspect of its programs from our knowledge.
• I was party to it. All of that work, all of those years—who was I working for? How was I to balance my contract of...

Personal Highlights:

• The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but they can...
• Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye—I punched my...
• The other way my father got contractors to work for a good price was by selling them on his reliability. He’d offer a low price...