Imagine, for a moment, that you’re the CEO of a major corporation. The job is demanding and your schedule is grueling. But you have a salary to compensate for all your hard work. So how would you spend your executive salary? Yachts? Vacation homes? Golf?
By day, the chief executives featured in our “Off the Cuff” series, run some of the most high-profile U.S. companies. But what they do off the clock, and what they value most may surprise you.
Read More »from How CEOs Spend ItDavid Karp built his first business at 11 years old. It wasn’t a lemonade stand.
Instead, he designed websites for his clients, years before he could drive or legally drink in a bar with them. Then in 2007, at 21, Karp founded Tumblr, the blogging platform and social networking website. Tumblr now hosts more than 85 million blogs, which in turn receive more than 18 billion page views per month.
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Being a boy wonder in business has its challenges though, as he said during an “Off The Cuff” interview. “Just the idea that literally this 13-year-old kid was asking for a contract…sending out an invoice and jumping on the phone …it terrified me. There were moments where I would have my dad call and pretend to be me because I knew I sounded like a kid on the phone.”
Read More »from High School Dropout To Tech TitanHarold Ford Jr., the former Democratic Congressman from Tennessee, is now a managing director and senior client relationship manager at Morgan Stanley. Perhaps because he’s the son of Harold Ford, Sr., who also represented Tennessee in Congress for 20 years, it’s not surprising that the younger Ford said he can never fully leave behind politics, despite his unsuccessful senatorial campaign in 2010. These days, Ford also teaches public policy at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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Recently, Ford said on “Off The Cuff” that he doesn’t rule out a return to politics and would love “a chance to be in the U.S. Senate.”
Read More »from Even In New York, Ford Jr Finds Southern ComfortIt's been called one of the most valuable commodities on the face of the earth and the rarest of stones. The 31-carat Wittelsbach-Graff diamond is deep blue, flawless, and has a pedigree to match. In the 17th Century, the diamond was worn by the Infanta of Spain, then passed from royal to royal.
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Few ordinary mortals have had the chance to hold the Wittelsbach-Graff -- but for Henri Barguirdjian, it is all in a day's work. Barguirdjian is the CEO of Graff Holdings, the luxury jewelers who bought the Wittelsbach-Graff at auction in 2008. The diamond is now in private hands.
Graff does not release sales figures but Barguirdjian said on "Off The Cuff" that "we wish we could keep them all but unfortunately we are running a business, we are not running a museum."
Read More »from Diamonds Are A Man’s Best FriendEver wondered what your boss eats for breakfast? Or why he or she works 24/7? Off the Cuff takes you outside the boardroom to show you what high-impact leaders do off the clock. Every week, corporate tycoons will answer questions about what they like (and loathe), what makes them get up in the morning, what inspires them, and what makes them the most proud.
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