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Boesky encarnó el modelo del agresivo agente de Wall Street de la década de 1980 y terminó protagonizando uno de los mayores escándalos financieros de la época.

A well-known, flamboyant stock market trader has died at the age of 87. AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports.

This week we talk about one of the most famous rats in history, besides that one that makes gingers cook well, and that rat's name is Ivan Boesky. An arbitrageur who made his wealth because his rich wife gave him a decent allowance, and also some illegal stuff.

224 episodes oughta do it, don't you think? You think we need one more? We don't have a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, even one Jethroe, a Leon Spinks, and certainly nothing close to the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever, but we do have Brent, David, and TJ to revisit Steven Soderbergh's 2001 Vegas heist classic. We all go way back, and you owe us from the thing with the guy in the place, so give it a listen! We may or may not make you laugh, but we promise to not make you cry. Caution! Talkie Talk reviews are spoilery unless otherwise noted. This episode also features minor discussions, which could include spoilers, of these films: - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - Ocean's Twelve - Ocean's Thirteen - Ocean's 11 - Ocean's Eight >Direct Podcast RSS feed: here!  > Contact: email! > Review us on iTunes, Google Play, or anywhere!  > Intro theme courtesy of The Willow Walkers > Outro song "Extemporaneous  Birth" courtesy of Boo Reefa 

Ponzi Schemes, 3 Card Monte, & Flim Flam Men – The Business of Con Artists BRT S04 EP02 (165) 1-15-2023   What We Learned This Week Famous Cons - Ponzi Scheme, Brooklyn Bridge, 3 Card Monte, Spanish Prisoner, Landlord, False Good Samaritan, Fiddle Game….  Psychology of the Scam & The Mark (Victim) – preying on people's trust, greed & politeness Magic - Art of Miss-direction & Deception, & how 3 Card Monte works Con Artists in Movies - The Sting, Wolf of Wall St, Ocean's 11, Grifters, American Hustle, Hustler, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Boiler Room....       Guest: Eric Almassy  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-almassy-4b10097 Eric is a regional sales director, & also a part time Actor     Notes: Seg 1 – What is a Con? What is a Confidence Man? Examples of cons – Spanish Prisoner, ponzi scheme, landlord, False Good Samaritan, 3 card monte Famous Cons – Ponzi Scheme, Brooklyn Bridge, Madoff, FTX Crypto Sell Brooklyn Bridge – George C Parker https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/conman-sold-brooklyn-bridge.htm Parker was so good at his job that he managed to "sell" the Statue of Liberty, Madison Square Garden, Ulysses S. Grant's tomb, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as four lots in City Hall Park for $25,000. But he couldn't avoid getting caught, and he went to jail several times for larceny, forgery, and impersonating a police officer.   False Good Samaritan There might not be any simpler or more ancient con than the so-called “false Good Samaritan”. It usually involves a team of two con men working in tandem, and the victim is usually a lone person walking a city street at night. The first con man approaches the person and mugs them, stealing their wallet or purse and taking off down the street. The second con man, posing as a passerby, will give chase to the mugger, tackle them, and get back the wallet. The mugger, of course, always manages to escape during the fray. The false Good Samaritan will then return the wallet or purse to the mark, who will have been witness to the entire performance. The hope is that the grateful victim will repay the con man for his help with some kind of cash reward, which they can then split with the mugger later on. When sold correctly and performed on the right kind of person, this con is capable of earning the grifters even more money than they would have ever gotten from just keeping the stolen wallet. Spanish Prisoner / Nigerian Prince Ever gotten one of those junk e-mails from a person claiming to be a Nigerian Princess in need of quick cash? If so, then you're familiar with the Spanish Prisoner, which is a classic form of “advance fee fraud” that attempts to trick unsuspecting marks by promising them a big payday down the road. The scam dates all the way back to the early 1900s, when it was often used against wealthy businessmen. This is how it would go down: after gaining his mark's trust, a con man would intimate that he was in correspondence with the family of a fabulously wealthy person of high social class who was being imprisoned in Spain for a crime they didn't commit. Fearing scandal, the prisoner has not released his name or case to the public, and is relying on private means to generate the money to secure his release. With this in mind, the mark would be told that any money he contributed to help in the cause would be paid back with huge interest down the road. In some variations, it would even be implied that the person would get to marry the Spanish Prisoner's beautiful daughter. Naturally, any money the victim gave would inevitably disappear, and when possible the con man would even try and get his victim to contribute more cash by telling them that a daring rescue attempt needed to be funded. Ponzi Scheme / Pyramid Scheme If  current events have proven anything, it's that there is no more potentially profitable con game than the Ponzi scheme. The trick dates back hundreds of years, but it was popularized by Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant to the U.S. who swindled investors out of millions in the early 1900s before being arrested. The modern Ponzi scheme is a form of investment fraud in which a fake or corrupt stockbroker uses the money of his new investors to pay the imaginary returns of his old ones. Initial investments with the fake broker might yield enormous returns for the people being conned, but in reality their money has not been invested in anything–the con man has simply been putting it all into a bank account. Any time someone wants to withdraw money, or if he has to pay the returns of his old investors, the con man simply uses the money he's gotten from new investors to do it. Nothing is actually being invested, won, or lost in the market. The con man is simply giving that impression so that people keep handing over more and more cash. Because it can only grow so far, any Ponzi scheme is destined to eventually collapse under its own weight, so the con man usually pulls a disappearing act after collecting enough money, leaving the investors with nothing but the fake returns they received to keep them involved in the swindle. Undoubtedly the most famous recent example involved Bernard Madoff, a New York financier who engineered a Ponzi scheme estimated to be in the neighborhood of $65 billion. Madoff was eventually caught and sentenced to 150 years in prison, but not before pulling of what is essentially the biggest con game of all time. Three Card Monte One of the classic short cons, three-card monte is a card game that uses sleight of hand and trickery to swindle victims out of small amounts of cash. It's one of the oldest cons around, and dates back to “the shell game,” a similar scheme that was popular during the Middle Ages. The game itself is deceivingly simple. Three cards are placed faced down on a flat surface, usually two black jacks and a red queen. The dealer shows the players the red queen, and then proceeds to thoroughly shuffle the cards to make it difficult to tell where it is. Players then bet on whether they can pick the queen out of the three cards. It sounds easy enough, but the game is more or less impossible to beat, because a good dealer can use sleight of hand to switch the cards at will, and can easily decide who wins or loses. In more sophisticated set ups, the whole game is a fake, and the other supposed “players” are in on the con. One of these conspirators will approach the mark and pretend to give them inside information on how to beat the game, enticing them to make a larger bet. Since street gambling is quite clearly illegal, any time a victim begins to suspect the game might be a cheat, the con men simply pretend to see the police coming, pack up their game, and make a break for it. Wire Game Made famous by the movie The Sting, the wire game was a complex fraud that required a large group of con men to work in concert in order to pull it off. The group of grifters would open up a fake “wire store,' which is a kind of bookie where bets could be placed on horse races. A victim, usually a man of considerable wealth, would then be brought in and given some fake insider information that a particular horse was a sure thing to win the race. If the con men sold the mark well enough, the hope was that they would place a huge bet with the fake bookie at the wire store. From here, the con can go any number of ways, but in the most popular version some sort of mistake occurs, or confusion over the outcome of the race (which, of course, never actually took place) leads to the bet being declared a loss for the hapless victim. Embarrassing Check The embarrassing check con is a well-known means of legally getting money from victims by playing off of their innate feelings of shame. The con men open a fake business with an overtly explicit title that supposedly sells sex toys or other pornographic material, but buyers are told that any purchases they make will be routed through a separate company with a much more innocuous name. After taking orders and collecting payments, the company then sends out letters explaining that a shipping error or some other issue has made it impossible for them to deliver on their product. They enclose a legitimate check refund, only this time the highly graphic name of the company is clearly emblazoned on the check, the idea of course being that a certain percentage of the customers will be too ashamed or embarrassed to ever cash it. Fiddle Game / Ring Game Many of the best cons work because of the inherent greed of the person being tricked, and the fiddle game is one of the best examples. It requires two con men to work, and is designed to take place in a restaurant. One of the con men poses as an old man eating dinner. When he gets his bill, the man approaches the owner and explains that he forgot his wallet back at his hotel. He promises to go get it, and as collateral leaves behind an old fiddle or violin, explaining that he is a traveling musician and that it is his sole source of income. After the old man leaves, a second con man who has been sitting nearby approaches the owner and asks to see the fiddle, saying that he is a dealer in rare instruments. After inspecting the fiddle, the man pronounces it a highly rare and valuable piece of work, worth thousands of dollars. He then pretends to be in a hurry and leaves, but not before giving the mark his card and telling him to call if the man is interested in selling. The old man will return shortly thereafter with the money for his meal. If the con men have sold the trick well enough, the victim, believing that he will be able to sell it to the fake instrument dealer for a huge profit, will attempt to buy the fiddle off of the old man for a few hundred dollars. Of course, the number on the card will prove to be a fake, and the victim will inevitably be left with a worthless violin. Landlord Sometimes real estate can be more valuable than gold. That's the premise of the Landlord Scam, in which a con artist assumes control of a vacant or abandoned home, and then advertises the property for an especially attractive price point. The unsuspecting victim rents the property from the con artist, who collects a security deposit as well as the first and last months' rent, and then disappears. In some cases, the con artist may even rent the same property to multiple victims, leading to mass confusion (and a couple of fistfights) on moving day.   https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-con-games.php Top 10 Con Games Explained By EVAN ANDREWS September 16, 2009 / Updated:March 26, 2019     Famous Con Artists: Charles Ponzi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi Bernie Madoff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff SBF – FTX Crypto / Alameda  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bankman-Fried       Seg. 2 – Psychology of a Con Why do people fall for cons? What con artists prey on, psych traits of victims More examples of cons, and how mark plays into it   Grifters: The 7 Psychological Principles That Con Artists Use Distraction – Attention is like spotlight, which means when it's pointing in one direction it pretty much ignores everything else. Except people don't realise how little information coming in from the outside world we actually process.Naturally you don't notice what you don't notice, plus the mind is designed to fill in the gaps for us. But con artists do know and almost every con uses some kind of distraction. The classic example is ‘Three-card Monte‘ sometimes called ‘Find the Lady', a rigged card game in which the aim is to find one card out of three after the grifter shuffles them around. At the heart of this hustle is the orchestration of a crowd of onlookers who the mark (that's you and me) thinks are all fellow punters, but who are actually in on the game.- aka: polite mugging   Social Compliance - The classic study showing how compliant we are, especially when told to do things by an authority figure, is known as the Milgram experiment. Grifters know all about this and happily exploit our automatic deference to authority figures. People will hand over credit cards to people they think are waiters, car keys to people they think are car park attendants Herd Principle - People are sheep: they can't help following each other. The classic study, known as the Asch conformity experiment was conducted by Solomon Asch in the 1950s showing that people will deny evidence from their own eyes to fit in with others. In the Three-card Monte con, the crowd of shills around the game creates the herd for the mark to follow. Online there are all kinds of tricks people can use to make others think there is a herd when actually there is only one person. The practice of ‘astroturfing' means creating multiple online identities to fake grass-roots support for a politician.In peer-to-peer networks the multiple identities created by people trying to influence them are known as Sybils. Whether online or offline, though, group psychology exerts an enormous influence over us.   Exploit other's dishonesty - Fear is the mind-killer. Con artists know that people are fearful and play on this fact. Some cons involve selling goods to marks that are used for illegal purposes.Marks are discouraged from reporting the scam because they would be implicating themselves and the grifter wins both ways.   Deception - People are easily tricked, even when they think they are being careful. Grifters take advantage of the fact that most people go along with their expectations of what will happen in any given situation. If the grifter's behaviour fits the situation then people will accept what they say.   Leverage need or greed - Once grifters know what people want, even if it doesn't exist, they are in a position to manipulate them. They will play on people's desperation; unfortunately the more desperate people are, the easier they are to con.   Time Pressure - Classic studies of how people make decisions under time pressure demonstrates what grifters already know: when there's no time to think people rely on short cuts and emotional responses to a situation.   https://www.spring.org.uk/2022/07/grifters-con-artists-7.php Grifters: The 7 Psychological Principles That Con Artists Use Message from Dr Jeremy Dean     Seg. 3 – 3 Card Monte, Magic, and the Art of Deception Hustler, people in crowd are in on the con, there to distract you Art of the con, look and act, all in to sell it Miss-direction, follow the card and how magic works The mark is looking at the wrong thing Magic – good looking assistant is miss-direction   That's the Trick There's a scene in the movie The Prestige when the 2 young apprentice magicians go to see an older magician to learn his ‘Trick'. When the older magician is on stage he's doing amazing feats of strength. Then they get a watch him after the show get into a carriage, he seems like a crippled feeble old man who needs help. One magician says the other magician – ‘This is the Trick. This is the performance. This is why no one can detect his method. Total devotion to his art. Lot of self sacrifice.' The ‘Trick' is off stage, he's always acting like a crippled old man. It's simple, not easy. We often look for something that's not there, the big secret, when it's actually just in front of our faces. Always more simple than we think. We're looking for the big trick, how to get rich in a moment. When the actual trick, is doing the work daily, weekly, monthly, for years. You hone the craft, measure your progress, and adjust over time. Respect the craft, as there is no overnight success. https://brt-show.libsyn.com/this-is-the-trick-the-one-thing-to-exit-strategy-to-moneyball-business-lessons-from-movies-best-of-business-part-2-brt-s03-ep43-142-9-4-2022     Seg. 4 – Cons in Movies The Sting – wire game, and gambling, hustle The Hustler – pool movie with gambling Wolf of Wall Street – pump and dump scheme with stocks or investments Also in Boiler Room (based on Wolf of Wall St)   Oceans 11 The Cons/Hustles/Scams in "Ocean's 11" - What do the names mean? bkkshadow (70)in #film • 2016 A Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, 2 Jethro's, a Leon Spinks & an Ella Fitzgerald.   https://steemit.com/film/@bkkshadow/the-cons-hustles-scams-in-ocean-s-11-what-do-the-names-mean   The Grifters In grifting, there are two types of scams: The Long Con & The Short Con. The names refer to the amount of time they take to correctly pull off, which is, ideally, a direct corollary to how lucrative the payout at the end is for the con-man (or woman). Let's talk about the lies. This movie is lousy with ‘em. Obviously the assorted grifters are lying as a profession. That's lying to other people, and that's a given. On top of that, they're lying to each other.  https://www.moviejawn.com/home/2017/5/2/the-grifters   More: American Hustle, Trading Places, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Focus, Matchstick Men, A Fish Called Wanda, Talented Mr. Ripley, Paper Moon, Bowfinger, Brothers Bloom, Now You See me, Nightmare Alley, I Care A Lot     https://movieweb.com/con-artist-movies/ Here Are Some of the Best Movies About Con Artists There's something captivating about tales depicting suave and slick con artists who manage to execute calculating and thrilling schemes. 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There are four basic steps in every good story.Bad storytellers can do steps one and two, but recoil at step three.Good storytellers are willing to do step three.Brilliant Storytellers do steps three and four again and again.1. Create a character that people like, believe in, and can relate to.2. Launch that character on a hero's journey.3. Do terrible things to that character.4. Surprise your reader/listener/viewer by what happens next.And then what happens? Make it surprising.And then what happens? Make it surprising.And then what happens? Make it surprising.But it must also make sense.Predictability is the silent assassin of stories.Without trouble, there is no adventure.In 'That Hovering Question Mark,' I told you, "Every good story begins with a statement that triggers more questions than it answers." Ocean's 11 contains an excellent example of this."Off the top of my head, I'd say you're looking at a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros, and a Leon Spinks. Not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever."– Rusty (Brad Pitt) to Danny (George Clooney), explaining how they will run the con in Ocean's 11And that is how they did it! Ocean's 11 contains surprise after surprise, even though the writer told us the plot when he gave us that Rusty-to-Danny statement just 12 and 1/2 minutes into a 2-hour movie. It was a statement that triggered more questions than it answered.A BOESKY: Ivan Boesky was a trader on Wall Street who got caught committing securities fraud. In Ocean's 11, Saul pretends to be a wealthy bankroller who has insider information.A JIM BROWN: Named for the famous American football player, this refers to Frank Catton, a large, intimidating black man who stages a confrontation with Linus Caldwell so that Linus can lift the security codes to the vault.A MISS DAISY: 'Driving Miss Daisy' was a movie about a woman who uses a chauffeur to drive her around. Using a SWAT truck and a disguised driver, the Ocean's 11 gang escapes with their own special chauffeur.TWO JETHROS: Remember Jethro of 'The Beverly Hillbillies'? In Ocean's 11, Turk and Virgil provide two-man 'goober' distractions, such as using helium balloons to obscure the security camera on the casino floor so that Livingston can get into the video surveillance room.A LEON SPINKS: When Leon Spinks beat Muhammad Ali in a Las Vegas prize fight, it was something that no one expected. In Ocean's 11, no one expects the power to go out in the middle of a prize fight in Las Vegas. A fabulous distraction.ELLA FITZGERALD: In a famous 1973 TV ad, the voice of Ella Fitzgerald shatters a wine glass, then the voiceover says, "Is it live or is it Memorex?" (audiotape). In Ocean's 11, the guys make a videotape of a pretend robbery and play it over the casino's surveillance system while the real robbery is happening.Most stories should be told as fiction, even when they are true. When confronted with facts we are always on our guard. But "Once Upon a Time" dispels doubt, opens the imagination, and creates a willing suspension of disbelief.In 1999 I was on the phone with an 87 year-old man I had been hunting for several weeks. His name was William Lederer. I needed his permission to publish a famous letter he had written to America's Chief of Naval Operations back in 1963. He gave me permission, then asked, “Where you calling from young man?”“Austin, Texas.”“I was...

We all know the famous line from Gordan Gekko, played by Michael Douglas in the movie, Wall Street. Greed is good." But do you know the story behind the man that inspired the character and quote? Listen as we tell the story of insider trading criminal, Ivan Boesky. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ryan-christopher-horn/support

Marianne Boesky established her eponymous gallery in New York in 1996. Since its inception, the gallery has represented and supported the work of emerging and established contemporary artists of all media and genres. In its first decade, the gallery was instrumental in launching the careers of major artists including Barnaby Furnas, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Sarah Sze, and Lisa Yuskavage. The gallery currently represents many significant international artists, including Ghada Amer, Jennifer Bartlett, Sanford Biggers, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Donald Moffett, and Frank Stella. Boesky relocated her flagship gallery from SoHo to Chelsea in 2001, and in 2016, the gallery expanded its flagship location to include its adjacent space on West 24th Street. In 2017, Boesky opened a location in Aspen, Colorado; she has organized temporary exhibition spaces in Europe and in cities across the United States. She and Zuckerman discuss family legacy, audacity, learning from artists, bank loans, consiglieres, vision, looking at everything, being a mom in the artworld, mentoring, and not rushing!

Meg finds out what The Odyssey Study Group was doing behind closed doors. Jessica trades insider information on Boesky, Milken, and their ilk.

The Den of Thieves scandal took place in the 1980's and included the biggest names on Wall Street; Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, and Dennis Levine. They created the greatest insider-trading ring in financial history and almost walked away with billions...until a team of detectives & expensive attorneys finally brought them to justice.

Rich invites past guests, Robert Greenfield an expert in Asian commerce affairs, and Aaron Boesky, the Founder and CEO of Marco Polo Pure Asset Management, based in Hong Kong, to discuss current US-China relations business relations.Support the show (https://RichardHelppie.com)

In the conclusion of Rich Helppie's two-part interview with Chinese hedge fund pioneer Aaron Boesky, they talk about the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement, Free Trade, Innovation, 5G technology and other things. Great interview.Support the show (https://richardhelppie.com)

This is the first of a two-part interview Rich had with Chinese hedge fund manager, Aaron Boesky. Boesky is the founder of Marco Polo Investments and Marco Polo Pure Asset Management. Helppie's discussion with Boesky on Chinese trade is terrific.Support the show (https://richardhelppie.com)

On this day in 1987, Ivan Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison. When he was found guilty of insider trading. Guest Host: Hannah, co-creator & co-host, RedHanded.

Where else could you hear a conversation that covers a Boesky based party game, Batman’s Nipples, the Bechdel Test and a tiny face? Film Guff, where else? Warning: There’s naughty words abound in this podcast. Edited By Cevin Moore Music: “Asteroid (A Corruption)” By Peter & Cevin Moore Info: filmguff.net Matt Damon!

Barnaby Furnas was born and raised in Philadelphia and lives and works in NYC. Barnaby earned his BFA at the School of Visual Arts and his MFA at Columbia Univeristy. Barnaby has had solo shows at Marianne Boesky Gallery staring in 2002. He’s also had solos at The Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, Victoria Miro in London, the MCA in Denver, Anthony Meier in San Francisco amongst many others. He’s had tons of group shows too numerous to list but highlights would be the MCA Tuscon, the Frist in Nashville, the Albright Knox, The Warhol Museum, etc. His work has been covered in all the art publications and he’s in the collections of the Albright Knox, the MCA in Chicago, the MCA in LA, SFMOMA, the Whitney and more. Brian met up with Barnaby at his solo show which just finished up at Boesky titled “Frontier Ballads” and they talked about his early graffiti days in Philly, how he found his physical approach to painting, flirting with jail time and much more.

"The 14000 block of Las Vegas Boulevard. Otherwise known as the Bellagio, the Mirage, the M.G.M. Grand. Together, they're the three most profitable casinos in Las Vegas... And we're going to rob it." That's right, we back for O and that means we're running the long con and discussing Ocean's Eleven (the 2001 edition). Join us as we pull of a Boesky, a Jim Brown, a Miss Daisy, two Jethros and a Leon Spinks, not to mention the biggest Ella Fitzgerald ever! Oh and we discover an amazing fact about Andy Garcia, Mike's deep loathing for Julia Roberts (which can only be hiding his even deeper obsession), and everything you've come to expect from a classic WDAWKT film segment. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wdawkt/message

This week on the show we take a look at Augmented Reality SmartGlasses from AR hardware leader ODG, and explore the fast changing tech landscape, entrepreneurship, and how media-tech in particular is transforming our world. Our guest is Keith Boesky, an advisor and board member to many of the fastest rising ventures in the west coast tech-media scene — including ODG, an established hardware leader in the augmented reality space. Keith is a former president of top-tier gaming company Eidos, where he led the introduction of AAA games such as Tomb Raider. He appears as a tech thought leader on news shows across CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC and is sought for insight by numerous publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. More at: https://www.MindAndMachine.io

This first interview with Keith Boesky, a board member with the Osterhout Group, marked the launch of a 4-day non-stop interview fun fest with technology leaders throughout the VR and AR industry. Dubbed the "Virtual Reality Games & Entertainment Extravaganza", it took place online between July 24-27, 2017.

He entered the game industry as an attorney at Cooley, in 1993 when it was still called Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddelson and Tatum, by cold calling a game developer. By 1996 this turned into the largest game practice in the country and retention by Eidos plc for its IPO. In the prospectus, Boesky theorized games could be used to platform intellectual property. The CEO agreed and Boesky became president of Eidos, tasked with moving the newly launched Tomb Raider video game across all media. After moving to Los Angeles and setting up shop on his own, Boesky set up a series of innovative game projects for "A" list talent and brands only to find the talent agencies did not want him around when the deals closed. In 2002 he joined ICM. He lasted two years. During that time he brought games into film and tv and clients into games, anime, comic books and other media.

Keith Boesky helped create Tomb Raider, a video game smash hit AND brought her to the big screen starring Angelina Jolie! Keith joins us and mentors our up and coming business rockstar Ben Vandenwymelenberg. He is the founder of Woodchuck casing and notebooks. Woodchuck creates beautiful wood cases for your phone, iPad, iPod etc. Tune in now and learn how to start a company, what troubles you may run into, and how you can keep it funded! Tune in now!

Today on Business Rockstars we have Keith Boesky! He is an expert in the gaming world! He sheds light on how much the gaming industry booming, how easy it is for you to get involved, and why NOW is the best time!

Anyone who has ever seen Franz Kline‘s expressionistic black slashes of pigment on a white background will instantly draw connections between those famous compositions and color choices of this Burundi-born artist. But that’s where the similarities end. Serge Alain Nitegeka, an artist represented in New York by Marianne Bosky Gallery bases his paintings on the installations that precede them. […] The post VIDEO: Serge Alain Nitegeka at Marianne Boesky Gallery appeared first on galleryIntell.

Today on Business Rockstars we have Keith Boesky! He is an expert in the gaming world! He sheds light on how much the gaming industry booming, how easy it is for you to get involved, and why NOW is the best time!

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Infuse Creative, founded by Gregory Markel, referred to as ‘one of the pioneers of SEO,' has provided search engine optimization, social media, mobile, TV advertising, reputation management, security, and digital marketing services and technology to an extremely diverse range of clients comprised of politicians, celebrities, well known executives, governments, corporations and others for the last 15 years including notable names such as; Sony, Universal, Roadside Attractions, Mazda, Disney, Gibson Musical Instruments, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros., Participant Media, Pacificare, The BBC, Ed Hardy, Led Zeppelin, Lord of the Rings, CBS, FOX, The National Geographic Channel, Transcendental Meditation, The State of California, Reality Executives International, and many more.Keith Boesky has been defining the intersection of the content and technology communities for over twenty years. He's worked as an attorney, president and agent, in project management, business development, strategy, corporate development, marketing, investor relations, digital content and distribution, new media, social media, monetization, customer acquisition and licensing. He got into the game industry as an attorney at Cooley, in 1993 when it was still called Cooley, Godward, Castro, Huddelson and Tatum, by cold calling a game developer. By 1996 this turned into the largest game practice in the country and retention by Eidos plc for its IPO. In the prospectus, Boesky theorized games could be used to platform intellectual property. The CEO agreed and Boesky became president of Eidos, tasked with moving the newly launched Tomb Raider video game across all media.

Twenty years ago today would forever after be known as "Boesky Day" on Wall Street, when financier Ivan Boesky's spectacular career came to an even more spectacular end.I found this account of a oral history discussion between the lawyers involved in both sides of the Boesky case (PDF document) particularly helpful in preparing this podcast.This episode's music is "Overnighter," by Jeremiah Fleming.  I found it at PodsafeAudio.  Theme music composed and performed by Marc Rose.