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“The company is doing extraordinarily well,” Singh Cassidy, a former Google and StubHub executive who remains based in Silicon Valley, told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Building a Better California’s biggest contributors include John Doerr, chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins; Michael Moritz, former partner at Sequoia Capital; and Patrick Collison, chief executive of fintech company Stripe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
“VA psychologists are best in class,” said Russell Lemle, former chief psychologist for the San Francisco VA Health Care System and now a senior policy analyst at the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Hong, a Wisconsin state assemblywoman, a single mother and a former chef, was believed by many observers to be the frontrunner as she entered election day in what proved to be a crowded Democratic primary.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
A former enslaved man hires enslaved boys to work in his shop.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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