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Richard Edward Rainwater (June 15, 1944 – September 27, 2015) was an American investor and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $3 billion, he ranked 211th on the Forbes 400 in 2015.
On July 11, 2008, The Staubach Company was sold to Jones Lang LaSalle for $613 million. [41] Staubach and his children's trust would gross more than $100 million from the sale by 2013. The sale provided an initial payment of $9.27 per Staubach share with additional payments due during the ensuing five years for a total of approximately $29/share.
Former Roblox headquarters, now occupied by Guidewire Software. Roblox Corporation (/ ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s / ROH-bloks) is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company is the developer of Roblox, which was released in 2006.
In 2008, The Staubach Company was acquired by Jones Lange LaSalle, an international commercial company where he became a managing director. In 2011, he was asked to become the President and CEO of the US Navy Memorial Foundation where he worked until his retirement in 2016.
The company stated that it wanted to increase the platform's appeal to a young adult audience of users 17–24, which it stated was the fastest-growing demographic on Roblox. [92] On June 20, 2023, Roblox started allowing games rated as only for players 17 years and over, which are permitted to have more graphic violence , romantic themes, and ...
[75] [76] In response, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the question "why the fuck do I need a google+ account to comment on a video?" on his YouTube channel to express his negative opinion of the change. [77] The official YouTube announcement [78] received 20,097 "thumbs down" votes and generated more than 32,000 comments in two days. [79]
In May 2011, YouTube reported on the company blog that the site was receiving more than three billion views per day, and that 48 hours of footage are uploaded every minute. [110] Later, in January 2012, YouTube stated that the figure had increased to four billion videos streamed per day and sixty hours. [111]
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]