Carl Schramm on Entrepreneurship

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!I’m still traveling through Spain for the holidays, but I [...]

Steve Jurvetson on Entrepreneurship

Steve Jurvetson, managing director for the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, says that there is a common human desire that ties philanthropy, raising families, creating art and literature, and entrepreneurship together. Stephen Covey talks about it. It is the desire to create a legacy — something that will last beyond our short time here [...]

Top 10 Events and Films that Created Change in 2006

Looking back at 2006, there were a lot of major events and people that changed the path of history. Rather than a traditional top ten list there is a list of five actual events that made an economic, social, or environmental change, and since everyone loves movies, there is also a list of five thinking-man’s [...]

Warren Buffett Gives It All Away

I recently read these two stories about Buffett’s decision to give away 85% of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and those of his children. It really shed some light on his strategy. He’s looking for value in giving away his money, just as he does in making it.
The Buffett Way of [...]

The Second Richest Man in the World

So, yesterday at work I learned that Warren Buffett had been planning to come to Sacramento State.
Yes, planning is the key word in that sentence. Who is Warren Buffett, you say? Only the second most wealthy person on this planet (!), after Bill Gates. He’s a brilliant investor and huge philanthropist, and has been in [...]