Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
CEO Editor at Semafor
US News Editor of the FT, with a name approaching 140 characters. Writing in a personal (but not too personal) capacity
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Elanco Animal Health, which has been supplying medicines for livestock for over seven decades, took its name from Eli Lilly & Co., but spun off from the pharma giant seven years ago. Jeff Simmons, who joined the company right out of college 35 years ago and has run it since 2008, admitted in an interview in the New York Stock Exchange that the intervening years have been tough.
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Booz Allen Hamilton has submitted recommendations to the US government for how it could save “tens of billions of dollars,” its chief executive told Semafor, as one of Washington’s biggest contractors races to salvage a relationship that delivers 98% of its revenues. The new Trump administration has been turbulent for many CEOs. For Horacio Rozanski, it has put almost all of his roughly $11 billion of annual sales in question.
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3 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
With Bilt Rewards, Ankur Jain thinks he’s hit on one of the “category-defining” startup ideas that only come along a few times in a decade — and he thinks he can turn it into a $10 billion business with no more than 200 employees. Jain has had this kind of confidence for a while. The son of former InfoSpace CEO Naveen Jain, he founded his first company at 11, sold his contact-management app Humin to Tinder in 2016, and set up Kairos, a venture studio for other founders.
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semafor.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson |Ben Smith
Ted Sarandos credits his career in media to “a weird parlor trick.” Four decades before he found himself running a $400 billion streaming giant as co-CEO of Netflix, he worked at a VHS rental store in Phoenix called Arizona Video Cassette West. There he developed an uncanny ability to remember his regulars’ tastes in movies, and to recommend which tape they should take home next.
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4 weeks ago |
semafor.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
Glenn Fogel joined the online travel startup Priceline.com 25 years ago this month, just days before the dot-com crash. That has given him some perspective as travel stocks fall amid concerns about US consumer confidence weakening and foreign tourists being deterred by an America First administration. Priceline went public at the height of the e-commerce boom, with its shares soaring tenfold in its first month. After the bubble burst, the stock collapsed.
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‘What is the consumer trying to tell you?’: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos on what he's learned from 25 years of disrupting other people's legacy businesses, and his own, via @semafor https://t.co/FWP7Rbf8N1
With Bilt Rewards, Ankur Jain thinks he’s hit on one of the “category-defining” startup ideas that only come along a few times in a decade — and he thinks he can turn it into a $10 billion business with no more than 200 employees. https://t.co/f7y7pEJ7Mw
“Beneath Gwen’s natural bluntness was a gossipy heart of gold. Few significant world figures passed her by. But her networking derived from a far deeper capacity for friendship.” A fitting tribute to the much-mourned Gwen Robinson from @EdwardGLuce https://t.co/mTNyluhcvO
