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Title: Forbes, August 6, 2012
Author: Forbes
Narrator: Ken Borgers
Format: Highlights
Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-06-12
Publisher: Forbes
Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy
Publisher's Summary:
Welcome to Forbes for August 6th, 2012 from Audible. This edition contains seven feature articles.
In the cover story, we'll tell you about Instagram's Kevin Systrom: The Stanford Billionaire Machine Strikes Again - Facebook's $1 billion purchase of the photo app made Kevin Systrom the latest Silicon Valley cult hero. It happened only because he chose school over Zuckerberg's startup.
Also, The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check - Standford's brainiest students come to David Cheriton for startup advice--and money. Two of them happened to be Sergey and Larry.
Next, Skrillex: The $15 Million DJ - How the 24-year-old became the world's second-highest-paid DJ.
Then, Death By Hubris? The Catastrophic Decision That Could Bankrupt A Great American Manufacturer - One of America's most storied manufacturers, $14 billion Navistar, survived the Civil War, the Depression and World War II. A stubborn decision by its CEO has jeopardized its future.
Followed by, America's Top Colleges - College costs are soaring, but for students accepted by one of these top institutions, as ranked by educational outcomes, attending is a no-brainer.
We'll also tell you about, Buying Beyond What You Know - Beyond the velvet rope.
And in our final story The PGA Tour's Secret Army - Volunteers fulfill almost every role at a golf tournament, and pay for the privilege. I try them all in one weekend.