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Donald Trump

Trump in February 2009

Donald John Trump
Born June 14, 1946 (1946-06-14) (age 63)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Occupation Chief executive officer
Salary $32 million (2007)[1]
Net worth ▲$2 billion (2009)[1]
Religion Reformed Church in America
Ivana Trump (1977-1992)
Spouse(s) Marla Maples (1993-1999)
Melania Trump (2005-)
Donald Trump, Jr. (b.1977)
Ivanka Trump (b.1981)
Children Eric Trump (b.1984)
Tiffany Trump (b.1993)
Barron Trump (b.2006)
Fred Christ Trump (1905-1999)
Parents
Mary A. MacLeod (1912-2000)
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Website
The Trump Organization
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American business magnate, socialite, author and television
personality. He is the Chairman and CEO of the Trump Organization, a US-based real-estate developer. Trump is
also the founder of Trump Entertainment Resorts, which operates numerous casinos and hotels across the world.
Trump's extravagant lifestyle and outspoken manner have made him a celebrity for years, a status amplified by the
success of his NBC reality show, The Apprentice (where he serves as host and executive producer).
Donald was the fourth of five children of Fred Trump, a wealthy real estate developer based in New York City.
Donald was strongly influenced by his father in his eventual goals to make a career in real estate development,[2] and
upon his graduation from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, Donald Trump joined his
father's company, The Trump Organization.
Starting with the renovation of the Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt with the Pritzker family, he continued
with Trump Tower in New York City and several other residential projects. Trump would later expand into the
airline industry (buying the Eastern Shuttle routes),[3] and Atlantic City casino business, including buying the Taj
Mahal Casino from the Crosby family, then taking it into bankruptcy. This expansion, both personal and business,
led to mounting debt.[4] Much of the news about him in the early 1990s involved his much publicized financial
problems, creditor-led bailout, extramarital affair with Marla Maples, and the resulting divorce from his first wife,
Ivana Trump.
The late 1990s saw a resurgence in his financial situation and fame. In 2001, he completed Trump World Tower, a
72-story residential tower across from the United Nations Headquarters.[5] Also, he began construction on Trump
Place, a multi-building development along the Hudson River. Trump owns commercial space in Trump International
Hotel and Tower, a 44-story mixed-use (hotel and condominium) tower on Columbus Circle. Trump currently owns
several million square feet of prime Manhattan real estate,[6] and remains a major figure in the field of real estate in
the United States and a celebrity for his prominent media exposures.

"Zig" Ziglar
 Ziglar in March 2009
November 6, 1926 (1926-11-06) (age 83)
Born
Coffee County, Alabama
Nationality American
Other names Hilary Hinton Ziglar
Occupation Motivational speaker, author
Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar (born 6 November 1926) is an American author, salesperson, and motivational
speaker. He penned a 2007 book entitled God's Way Is Still the Best Way.

[edit] Biography
Zig Ziglar was born in Coffee County, Alabama to parents John Silas Ziglar and Viola Ziglar. He was the tenth of
twelve children.[1]
In 1931, when Ziglar was five years old, his father accepted a management position at a Mississippi farm, and his
family moved to Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he spent most of his early childhood. In 1932, his father died of a
stroke, and his younger sister died two days later.
Ziglar served in the Navy during World War II (circa 1943 to 1945). He was in the Navy V-12 Navy College
Training Program, attending the University of South Carolina.
On September 15, 1944, he met his wife, Jeane, at the YWCA in Jackson, Mississippi. He was 17 and she was 16.
After dating for over two years she accepted his proposal and they were wed in late 1946.[2]
Ziglar later worked as a salesman in a succession of companies, during which time his sales skills improved and his
interest in motivational speaking grew.
In 1968, Ziglar became a vice president and training director for the Automotive Performance company, moving to
Dallas, Texas.
In 1970, Ziglar went into the business of motivational speaking full-time. He often incorporates his strong Christian
values into his enthusiastic speaking. Up until this final career change, he had gone by his given name, Hilary Ziglar.
As more associates in the speaking and motivation business called him by the nickname, Zig, he decided to call
himself Zig, and it stuck.
As of 2009 Ziglar still travels around taking part in motivational seminars despite a fall down a flight of stairs that
diminished his short term memory.
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Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group,
he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch
and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.

Brad currently serves on the board of directors of Gist, Gnip, Oblong, Standing Cloud, and Zynga for Foundry
Group. Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld
Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld
Technologies into one of Boston's leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the
diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired
by GE Capital in 1995.

In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and currently is
chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on
the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes widely read and well respected blogs at
www.feld.com and www.askthevc.com.

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