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MBTI & Celebs

Mark Cuban: ENTP

"Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman, television producer, investor, and television personality.

He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), co-owner of 2929 Entertainment, and one of the main "sharks" on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cuban's entrepreneurial actions manifested early with ventures ranging from selling garbage bags to running newspapers during a strike.

He graduated from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and embarked on a diverse business career that included founding MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com, both of which he sold at substantial profits.

Cuban's investments span various industries, from technology and media to sports and entertainment."

Sources: video, wiki/Mark_Cuban

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Elizabeth Holmes: ESTJ + enneagram 4w3 so/sp

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MBTI & Tech

Sam Bankman-Fried: ENTP

“Samuel Bankman-Fried (born March 6, 1992), also known by his initials SBF, is an American entrepreneur, investor and former billionaire. 

He is the founder and former CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange; FTX.US, its U.S. affiliate; and Alameda Research, a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm. 

FTX experienced a solvency crisis in late 2022, which led to a collapse in FTX's native cryptocurrency, FTT. 

Amid the crisis, Bankman-Fried announced he would wind down operations at Alameda Research and resigned as CEO of FTX, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 

Bankman-Fried's net worth peaked at $26 billion. In October 2022, he had an estimated net worth of $10.5 billion. 

However, on November 8, 2022, amid FTX's solvency crisis, his net worth was estimated to have dropped 94% in a day to $991.5 million, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the largest one-day drop in the index's history. 

By November 11, 2022, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index considered Bankman-Fried to have no material wealth. (…)

One day after FTX declared bankruptcy, on November 12, Bankman-Fried was interviewed by the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Bankman-Fried began publishing a series of very short "cryptic" messages in a sequence on Twitter starting 14 November. 

The tweet started with simply, "1) What" and a series of one-letter tweets that, when combined, spelled out the message, "What HAPPENED."”

Sources: video, wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried. Screencaps: transcript.

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MBTI & Celebs

Jony Ive: INFJ

“Sir Jonathan Paul Ive (born 27 February 1967) is a British industrial and product designer, as well as businessman. 

Ive was the chief design officer (CDO) of Apple Inc. from 1997 until 2019 (known as senior vice principal of industrial design until 2015), and serves as Chancellor of the Royal College of Art. (…)

Working closely with Jobs during their tenure together at Apple, Ive played a vital role in the designs of the iMac, Power Mac G4 Cube, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and parts of the user interface of Apple's mobile operating system iOS, among other products. 

He also helped design Apple's major architectural projects, such as Apple Park and Apple Stores.”

Sources: video, wiki/Jony_Ive

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MBTI & Tech Tristan Harris: ENFJ

“Tristan Harris is the president and a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.

Earlier, he worked as a design ethicist at Google, where he studied ethics of human persuasion. (…)

Harris left Google in December 2015 to focus on a nonprofit called Time Well Spent, which he co-founded.

Through Time Well Spent, Harris hoped to mobilize support for an alternative built around core values at tech corporations, chief of which is helping us spend our time well, instead of demanding more of it.

Harris asserts that all human minds can be hijacked and the choices they make are not as free as they think they are. 

The Atlantic stated in their November 2016 issue that “Harris is the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience.”

He coined the phrase "human downgrading" to describe the interconnected system of mutually reinforcing harms – addiction, distraction, isolation, polarization, fake news – 

that weakens human capacity, caused by technology platforms with the extractive business model to capture human attention.”

Sources: The Social Dilemma (Netflix), wiki/Tristan_Harris.

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Markus Persson (Notch): INTP

“Markus Alexej Persson (born 1 June 1979), also known as Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer.

He is best known for creating the sandbox video game Minecraft and for founding the video game company Mojang in 2009. (…)

He retained his position as the lead designer of Minecraft until the game's official launch in 2011, after which he transferred creative authority to Jens Bergensten.

He had continued to work on Minecraft until he left Mojang in November 2014, after its acquisition by Microsoft for $2.5 billion.

Microsoft eventually dissociated from Persson following controversial comments regarding topics such as race and gender on his Twitter account.”

Sources: video, wiki/Markus_Persson. Screencaps: transcript.

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MBTI & Tech Brie Code: INFP

“Hi, I'm Brie. I'm the founder and CEO of TRU LUV, a Toronto-based AI company changing our relationship with technology.

We make AI companions for refuge, resilience and transformation.

These are not personal assistants, nor apps nor games, but a new category of human-computer interaction that feels like friendship. (…)

Previously I was a lead AI programmer at Ubisoft on the soft, ethereal game Child of Light and three Assassin's Creed games and an AI programmer at Relic Entertainment.”

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“With #SelfCare, we’re experimenting with a new interaction model built from deepening love, not rising stress. As you care for our companion, our companion cares for you.

Our companion has been brought to life by us, our diverse, transdisciplinary team of feminist artists, poets, witches, psychologists, and AI designers.

We’re grateful that #SelfCare was one of Apple’s Best of 2018 Trends of the Year selections and now we’re working on deepening the experience.”

Sources: video, briecode.com, truluv.ai. Screencaps: transcript.

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MBTI & Celebs Zoë Quinn: INFP

“Zoë Tiberius Quinn (born 1987) is an American video game developer, programmer, writer, and artist.

They developed the interactive fiction game Depression Quest, which was released in 2013. (…)

In August 2014, Eron Gjoni, a former boyfriend of Quinn, posted a lengthy blog post detailing his relationship with Quinn.

Based on the contents of the post, Quinn was falsely accused of receiving positive coverage from a journalist with whom they were in a relationship.

It was later shown that the journalist in question had only once briefly mentioned Quinn's work, and not while they were in a relationship.

These accusations sparked the Gamergate controversy.

Quinn suffered a long period of harassment including doxing, rape threats, and death threats.

Harassment associated with Gamergate resulted in widespread recognition of sexism in gaming.”

Sources: video, wiki/Zoë_Quinn. Screencaps: transcript. See also: Anita Sarkeesian.