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sports.yahoo.com
ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen Dies At 93https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/espn-founder-bill-rasmussen-dies-170122546.htmlBill Rasmussen, a sports visionary who founded ESPN in 1979 with his son Scott as the world’s first 24-hour sports television network, died Tuesday at 93 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Florida. Shrugging off skeptics, the pioneering Rasmussen – after being fired as communications director of the New England Whalers — acquired space …
Aug 18, 2026 5:01 PM
sports.yahoo.com
ESPN co-founder Bill Rasmussen dies at 93 from the effects of Parkinson’s diseasehttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/espn-co-founder-bill-rasmussen-163140952.htmlLAND O’ LAKES, Fla. (AP) — Bill Rasmussen, who co-founded ESPN in 1979 after being fired from a public relations job in the World Hockey Association, died Tuesday. ESPN historian Mike Soltys said Rasmussen died at his Florida home from the effects of Parkinson’s disease. Rasmussen announced in 2019 that he had been diagnosed with the degenerative disease in 2014.
Aug 18, 2026 4:31 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Bill Rasmussen, founder of ESPN, dead at 93https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/bill-rasmussen-founder-espn-dead-163004667.htmlThe man who pioneered wholesale change in sports media with the founding of ESPN has died. Bill Rasmussen, the entrepreneur who conceived the 24-hour cable sports network ESPN, died on Tuesday at age 93, the network announced. Rasmussen, along with his son Scott, famously came up with the idea for ESPN while stuck in traffic…
Aug 18, 2026 4:30 PM
sports.yahoo.com
ESPN co-founder Bill Rasmussen dies at 93https://sports.yahoo.com/article/espn-co-founder-bill-rasmussen-dies-at-93-161801130.htmlBill Rasmussen was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2025.
Aug 18, 2026 4:18 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Bill Rasmussen, ESPN Co-Founder, Dies at 93https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/bill-rasmussen-espn-co-founder-161653616.html"Quite simply, none of us would be here today if it wasn’t for Bill’s passion and all the hard work and entrepreneurial spirit," chairman Jimmy Pitaro says
Aug 18, 2026 4:16 PM
hollywoodreporter.com
Bill Rasmussen, Co-Founder of ESPN, Dies at 93https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bill-rasmussen-espn-co-founder-1236676072/The former New England Whalers exec and his son came up with the idea for an all-sports network in 1978 while stuck in traffic.
Aug 18, 2026 3:58 PM
variety.com
C+C Music Factory Co-Founder Robert Clivillés Sues Freedom Williams for $30 Million, Alleging He Wrongfully Claimed Trademark Despite Never Being a Group Memberhttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/cc-music-factory-robert-clivilles-sues-freedom-williams-1236837138/Whatever fallout came as a result of the canceled Freedom 250 concerts on the National Mall in Washington this summer, we can add a lawsuit that otherwise might not have happened. One prominent figure in that D.C. controversy, Freedom Williams, who made newsmaking statements in his role as frontman for the touring edition of C+C […]
Aug 18, 2026 3:55 PM
forbes.com
Purely Elizabeth Founder Sells To Ferrero For $850 Million: “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2026/08/17/purely-elizabeth-founder-sells-to-ferrero-for-850-million-feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway/Seventeen years ago, Elizabeth Stein started making muffin mix in her Upper West Side Manhattan apartment to sell to her nutrition clients. Now she’s worth an estimated $400 million, thanks to the recent sale of her Purely Elizabeth granola and oatmeal brand.
Aug 17, 2026 5:14 PM
forbes.com
Purely Elizabeth Founder Sells To Ferrero For $800 Million: “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2026/08/17/purely-elizabeth-founder-sells-to-ferrero-for-800-million-feel-the-fear-and-do-it-anyway/Seventeen years ago, Elizabeth Stein started making muffin mix in her Upper West Side Manhattan apartment to sell to her nutrition clients. Now she’s worth an estimated $400 million, thanks to the recent sale of her Purely Elizabeth granola and oatmeal brand.
Aug 17, 2026 5:14 PM
github.com
Show HN: Terraforming with Minimal Founders – Method for Diversity from Two?https://github.com/initsixdev/founder-population-initThis is an experiment based on an idea I had recently:If you wanted to seed a new world with a species do you really need to carry a large archive? Or could a tiny founding population carry a temporary mechanism that generates population-level genetic diversity during the first few generations, then shuts itself off?I think this could be plausible for a sufficiently advanced civilization, so I started trying to model the population-genetics side of it.What do you think? Like the idea?
Aug 16, 2026 7:56 PM
ft.com
China poised to lift travel ban on Manus foundershttps://www.ft.com/content/fa479d50-7c79-4b6d-99c3-3830e37c1503?syn-25a6b1a6=1Chief executive Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore as AI company nears resolution of Meta separation
Aug 15, 2026 4:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299333I'm an engineering undergrad considering pursuing a PhD with the long-term goal of founding a hard-tech startup. I’m undecided about the specific area and only have a vague sense of what interests me -- industrial decarbonization, mining / mineral processing, and advanced materials are a few areas that currently seem exciting.However, I'm unsure which type of PhD lab would provide better preparation: either a problem-first lab (e.g., like Yet-Ming Chiang at MIT) or a technology-first lab (e.g., your typical academic lab that focuses on novel science without a predetermined application, and where commercialization happens largely by chance — when a technology happens to have a valuable market application).I've looked at advice online from successful hard-tech entrepreneurs, but the answers are conflicting. Some say to work backwards from a problem, but others argue that problem-first approaches often don't work since deep tech is inherently different: you often can't force a scientific
Aug 14, 2026 2:38 PM