4 posts and columns on Larry Summers

Videos: Three Best Sessions of Fortune Brainstorm Tech

in News on July 22, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

Feisty is often best at conferences — even when the altitude is making you loopy! Here’s my choice of the breakout hit sessions of this week’s just-concluded Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference.
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Now Is the (Larry) Summers of Our Silicon Valley VC: Economic Guru Joins Andreessen Horowitz as “Special Advisor”

in News on June 29, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT

In an unusual appointment for the longtime public servant, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will join Silicon Valley venture powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz as a part-time “Special Advisor.” Summers got to know the firm with an assist from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who was a student of his when he was a professor at Harvard University.
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From Plumber of the Internet to Plumber of the Economy?

in News on October 7, 2008 at 10:36 am PT

When he appeared at our D5 conference in May 2007, Sen. John McCain said that, given the chance, he’d hire Cisco CEO John Chambers for his cabinet. Now, in the run-up to the November presidential election, it looks like Chambers has some competition for that spot. In an interview with Reuters, McCain said that Chambers is still on his short list of potential Treasury secretaries, but the Cisco CEO has some company.

The Sheryl Sandberg PR Tour Rolls Into Town!

in News on April 15, 2008 at 5:55 am PT

Mark Zuckerberg? Who’s that? Now, at Facebook, it’s apparently the Season of Sandberg! Ah, the appeal of a fresh face is just irresistible to the press–OK, including BoomTown, except we posted more than a month ago!–with two major pieces, in Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, rolling out this week alone, with everything you wanted [...]