Elon Musk is having a moment. Less than two years after having to mortgage or sell his homes to keep up with his sprawling debt, Elon is back on top with his Tesla, sporting a…
Articles of Interest
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: COWORKING POST-PANDEMIC
With the travails of WeWork nationwide and in downtown Orlando, as well as the September Chapter 11 filing of Regus, the question in these days of global pandemic is: How will the co-worker business model…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY BIRTHING SEASON
Mother Kendi, the first white rhino born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom back in 1999, is the first of three rhinos at Disney to give birth in the coming months – this one to a healthy…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: DISNEY PLUS
Theme parks served Disney well, first in Anaheim, then in Orlando, Paris, Hong Kong, and others. Content came next with Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios, among others, collectively increasing Disney’s market value three-fold….
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SPACE BUSINESS BOOMING
In the midst of a pandemic, space exploration has been exploding. NASA, in partnership with the private sector, is intent on landing a beachhead on the moon with a sustainable outpost by 2024, a project…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
In an era when autonomous vehicle transportation for cars and trucks is inevitable, the merger of locally operated Luminar Technologies with Nasdaq-listed Gores Metropoulos is noteworthy. Luminar, through the vision of CEO Austin Russell, CTO…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: SANDY SHUGART
Listening to the announcement that Valencia President Sandy Shugart was going to be retiring was somewhat of a wake-up call. Some 15 years ago, I heard Sandy address an EDC Leadership Conference. I had the…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: BODY CAMERAS
Winter Park Police Chief Michael Deal’s action in fully equipping his police department with body cameras, once the city had approved the budget for them, reflects a welcome sign of the times for law enforcement….
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: REVISITING STARLINK
Among the recent achievements of SpaceX, noteworthy is that the company is now building 120 communication satellites per month, accelerating Elon Musk’s goal of blanketing the planet with 12,000 small satellites delivering high-speed internet in…
Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100: WAITING FOR ‘MULAN’
Disney has clearly suffered at the hands of the pandemic as its market cap shrunk from $260 billion to $215 billion in the last six months alone. One of its star attractions is its new…