Bill Clinton

Bill "Bubba" Clinton breaks Google party plane Eric Schmidt, Larry Page and Sergey Brin graciously lent their plush Boeing 767, otherwise known as the Google party plane (photographed in Newark last week), to former president Bill Clinton for a media tour of Africa. However, on a runway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, en route to Rwanda, the takeoff was aborted and the plane grounded, forcing Clinton to ride on Jon Bon Jovi's old 707 commandeered for the press gaggle in New Jersey. My guess? Clinton just couldn't lay off the injera and tej and the plane blew a gasket. [Industry Standard]

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Bill Clinton updates Facebook profile to say "It's complicated" with Hillary
Minutes after New York Senator Hillary Clinton sent an email to her supporters ending her campaign, President Clinton changed his Facebook profile relationship status from "Married" to "It's Complicated." He also added that he was now looking for "friendship," "dating," and "a relationship." We're guessing Bill Clinton doesn't actually update his own Facebook page and that the changes were more likely a frustrated campaign supporter's way of venting. (Update: Or maybe a satirical blogger's.) Asked by a "reporter" about the change, campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson answered: "What can I tell you? It's complicated."

8:40 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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cleantech
Vinod Khosla's Brazilian ethanol venture uses slave labor, just like most Valley startups we know
The Brazil Renewable Energy Company, or Brenco, was the target of the Brazilian Labor Ministry's slave-labor investigation unit last month. Brenco produces ethanol from sugarcane, which is more carbon-efficient than corn-based ethanol but incredibly labor-inefficient — cane farming is some of the hardest work on Earth. How did the company, backed in part by Vinod Khosla's VC firm, address this inefficiency? By paying workers less than a dollar an hour, packing them cheek-to-jowl in substandard living conditions, preventing them from leaving the unsanitary housing on their free time, feeding them poorly, and (rather ironically for an ethanol manufacturer) banning alcohol. More »

1:20 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Jackson West
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sheryl sandberg
Harvard Business School, White House alumna says connections don't matter
In an interview with BoomTown's Kara Swisher, Facebook's new second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg says "Silicon Valley is a very good place for women."
For a couple reasons. It's a meritocracy. People really care about ideas here. None of the old school where'd-you-come-from stuff applies in Silicon Valley and I think that helps women.
Where Sandberg comes from: More »

5:00 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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larry and lucy
Clinton spokesman denies Googler wedding rumor
Phil Singer, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, says neither she nor Bill will be at Larry Page and Lucy Southworth's wedding being held today on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands. That's a shame. Richard Branson's Caribbean getaway is a lot warmer than Iowa, HIllary. And there are worse places to hit people up for campaign donations. Maybe she's just trying to avoid a photo op with the Bushes?

11:01 AM on Sat Dec 8 2007
By Owen Thomas
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Latest by APLSUX: If Bill knew about Neckers and Virgins, I bet he'd be there in a Harlem-based office moment. more »
larry and lucy
President Bush, Clintons to meet at Googler wedding?
We've heard rumors that there will be three presidents attending the Caribbean wedding of Google cofounder Larry Page and his bride-to-be, Lucy Southworth. The Times Online is reporting that Bill and Hillary Clinton are expected to attend, which leaves two presidents unaccounted for. The likeliest candidates: Dubya and his dad. Here's why. More »

11:27 AM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Megan McCarthy
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Latest by APLSUX: Lucy's sister pictured above is invited to pass my Oral Exam any time... more »

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Bill Clinton updates Facebook profile to say "It's complicated" with Hillary

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Clinton spokesman denies Googler wedding rumor

President Bush, Clintons to meet at Googler wedding?

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