Beautiful Code (2 page)
Authors: Sadie Hayes
“AHHH! Not again! Just as good as the first, or maybe even better…when I got to that last page and then tried to flip the virtual page, I was like “Noooo!”… The novels are
hilarious, sweet, scandalous, and super awesome, I find myself smiling from ear to ear the entire time!
I hope Hayes keeps up with the series, because I am not done with these characters, not anytime soon.” –Dana Hilgers, Dana Does Read
“Book two of the Start-Up is another interesting story arc in the tale of computer genius Amelia and her more earthly twin Adam as they start up a business together.
Guided by the wise, preyed on by the foolish, but never quite sure of their place in this high-finance world,
they’re approaching the point where their wonder-product will be announced.” – Sheila Deeth
“Similar to the first installment,
The Anti-Social Network
is built upon a foundation of true experience.
Although the characters and story are fiction, the themes are very true to life, and entrepreneurs may learn a thing or two
…
The Anti-Social Network
has a perspective of their acceptance of entrepreneurship and subsequent moving of the company from the idea, or seed stage, to an early and ultimately expansion stage. This realistically mimics the journey of an entrepreneur assuming they have the burning desire, faith, and persistence to stay the course and rise to each ever increasing challenge.” – J.R. Sedivy, Chairman and CEO, Analytika, Inc.
Contents
Prologue
: Bookmarks
Chapter 1
: Lift Off
Chapter 2
: Hawaii 2.0
Chapter 3
: Get To Know Me
Chapter 4
: Is This Seat Taken?
Chapter 5
: Dinner Table Confessionals
Chapter 6
: Waterfalls
Chapter 7
: You Can’t Stay On Top Forever
Chapter 8
: Some Things Champagne Can’t Fix
Chapter 9
: Prove Yourself
Chapter 10
: Look, But Don’t Touch
Chapter 11
: Footprints
Chapter 12
: Yours, Virtually
Chapter 13
: Tell Me Your Secrets, I’ll Tell You Mine
Chapter 14
: Panic
Chapter 15
: Prepping and Primping
Chapter 16
: You Can’t Win All The Time
Chapter 17
: Or Can You?
Chapter 18
: Here She Comes
Chapter 19
: Competitive Advantage
Chapter 20
: Speech!
PROLOGUE:
Bookmarks
www.crunchbase.com/company/doreye
CrunchBase
Home>Companies>Doreye
Doreye, Inc.
Doreye (pronounced “Door-Eye”) is a downloadable device and object recognition application created by Amelia Dory and her brother Adam Dory. In an interview with TechCrunch, Amelia called Doreye, “A remote control for the physical world.” The application uses the phone’s native antenna and circuitry to receive and broadcast signals across a wider spectrum of frequencies than the manufacturers intended. As a result, Doreye currently allows the user to “see and control” any electronic device with their phone—televisions, garage doors and even microwaves are accessible via Doreye.
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who was gifted an early alpha version, called Doreye, “…physically impossible. I’d sooner believe the Loch Ness monster exists before I would believe Doreye exists… And, yet, here I am using it to unlock my car.” The limitations of what is and isn’t possible doesn’t seem to prevent Amelia Dory from pushing the horizons of Doreye. Later this year, Doreye will be able to recognize and find inanimate objects. “Like how a bat uses sonar,” Amelia explains that Doreye will use infrared signals and a sleek, lightweight AI (artificial intelligence) to recognize things like your keys, your car or even your friends.
Amelia Dory holds over a dozen patents related to Doreye. She co-founded the company with her twin brother Adam Dory, who is the company’s COO and head of Business Development. They started the company six months ago while freshmen at Stanford. Both hail from Indiana.
www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/fenway-ventures
CrunchBase
Home>Financial Organizations>Fenway Ventures
Fenway Ventures
is a venture fund that focuses on seed and Series A investments to start-up companies. The fund also runs a start-up incubator, which is designed to speed the development of entrepreneurial companies by providing mentorship, as well as business and legal support.
Fenway Ventures is currently incubating two early-stage companies:
WorldSight
and
Doreye
. WorldSight uses advances in plastics technology to create eyewear that affordably prevents glaucoma in third world inhabitants. Doreye is a revolutionary software that the valley has deemed “The next Google;” it transforms anyone’s cell phone into both a remote control for electronic devices and an object recognition “radar” for inanimate objects.
Key People
:
Founder
Tom Fenway
is one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific investors and philanthropists. His Kadence music service formed the backbone of Apple’s iTunes as well as Final Cut Pro, and inspired most other online music aggregators. He is particularly known for his laid-back aesthetic, notoriously wearing flip-flops to high profile meetings.
Analyst
T. J. Bristol
handles supervision as well as business support for Fenway’s incubator. He assists the founders in market analysis and fundraising. Formerly an intern at Goldman Sachs, T. J. is the son of Ted Bristol, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture investors. T. J. graduated from Stanford, where his father Ted is a trustee and his sister Lisa is currently a freshman.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/fashion/weddings/vows/Hawkins-Bronson
Vows
Shandi Marie Hawkins and Chad Sebastian Bronson
By: Margot Langsford
Shandi Marie Hawkins and Chad Sebastian Bronson are to be married at noon on Saturday at the Hibiscus Grove, on the island of Maui, Hawaii. The Rev. Frederick Wilton, an Episcopal priest, will officiate.
The bride, 23, will take her husband’s name. She is pursuing her Master of Art History from Yale University, where she received a Bachelors degree this past May. She is the daughter of Ronald and Chloe Hawkins of Atherton, California. The bride’s sister Patricia Hawkins, a sophomore at Stanford University, will serve as maid of honor.
The bridegroom, 27, is receiving his M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is the son of Bradley Fitzgerald Bronson and Vivian Wells-Bronson of Darien, Connecticut. Before attending Stanford, he worked as an associate at Deutsche Bank, and received his A.B. in Economics from Harvard College.
The couple met three years ago at the annual Young Patrons of Lincoln Center charity ball.
online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405231545674219645274003298926316.html
The Wall Street Journal | Technology | Top Stories
Secrecy Shrouds Gibly Sale and Court Proceedings
By: Steven Messing
In the world of technology, a single blog post can turn success into failure.
Last June, Gibly, Inc. was on the verge of being sold to Lloyd’s (LLYL.l) for $3.8 billion in what was immediately heralded as the best return on investment in tech to date. Gibly’s lead investor and de facto CEO Ted Bristol considered the sale to Lloyd’s his swan song, and Silicon Valley awarded it as the crowning achievement to Bristol’s remarkable career.
Days after the announcement and out of the blue, TechCrunch broke the tech story of the decade. Gibly was known for being a remarkable software program that acted as a personal assistant, doing everything from transcribing text messages to managing payments with one’s cell phone. The article by TechCrunch revealed Gibly’s much more secretive function. A mystery hacker discovered—and leaked to the blog TechCrunch—that Gibly was actually constructed to create a database of users’ private information. Over one hundred million users had their passwords, home addresses, credit card information and more stored in the Gibly server.
The deal was put on hold indefinitely and Gibly was immediately the subject of both a class action suit and a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission over privacy concerns. At the time of this writing, Ted Bristol was unavailable for comment.
Rumors abound as to the identity of the mystery hacker who took down Gibly, as well as his motivations. Some claim it’s the Internet civil disobedience group Anonymous, while others point towards a covert team at the CIA. Many technology blogs claim it’s either a head engineer from within the company or, least likely, a teenager with time on his hands. Regardless, some lone gunman single-handedly cost Silicon Valley’s best investors billions of dollars and their reputations.
What Gibly was really up to—or why the sale to Lloyds was simply put on hold instead of scrapped altogether—is as much a mystery as the identity of the mystery hacker.
