💰$15B?! A16z’s Power Move!

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The loot, as it were, is compartmentalized. A generous $6.75 billion sloshes about in a “growth fund”-one can almost hear the startups salivating. Two smaller funds, each around $1.7 billion, are designated for “apps” and “infrastructure.” How quaint. Then there’s the “American Dynamism” fund-yes, really-with a hefty $1.176 billion, presumably to build more impressive ways to… defend things? And, of course, the obligatory Bio + Health, a modest $700 million, and a catch-all encompassing $3 billion for “other venture strategies.” It’s all frightfully organized, isn’t it? The firm, a veritable brochure of explanatory prose, deigned to explain this financial ballet to the public.

Remembering genius David Bowie and how he heralded 2016 – a year of exponential loss in showbiz history

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I remembered something he’d said when I heard the news about David Bowie’s death on January 11, 2016. I’d stayed up all night writing about the Golden Globe Awards and was heading to a TV studio when it broke. I made it to the studio, but suddenly no one was interested in the Globes anymore – everyone was talking about Bowie, his incredible 50-year career, his lasting impact, and the heartbroken fans who were painting red lightning bolts on their faces.

20 Shocking Secrets About The Sopranos Revealed

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Many consider The Sopranos to be one of the greatest TV shows ever made. It first aired on HBO on January 10, 1999, and introduced viewers to the complex character of Tony Soprano, played by the late James Gandolfini, along with his family – wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and children Meadow (Jamie Lynn Sigler) and Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) – and the dangerous lives of his fellow mobsters.