Glen joseph power biography books
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About me
Quick facts
Full name: Glen Joseph Power
Birthday: 5 July
Nationality: Irish
Trademark: blue eyes, wide smile, tight hugs
Plays: drums, guitar, vocals
Before The Script
Glen was born into a musical family, his dad was a musician as well.
“My dad is a singer. He also plays the accordion. When I was a kid and we would be sitting at the dinner table my dad would be tapping his hands along to what was on the radio. I would copy him and I really believe that was the start of it for me, that was the foundation of basic rhythm in me.”[1]
He started playing the drums when he was 8.
“I was actually quite shy. Maybe that&#;s why I ended up behind a kit of drums.”[2]
Being shy didn’t hold him back from sharing his provocative views. In school with his friends he started up their own society called T.F.A.T.A.J which stands for THE FEDERATION AGAINST TRUTH AND JUSTICE. They used to write anonymous stories about teachers and the Principal of the school a
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies
in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Trust me, after you’re halfway in, you won’t put this book down for dinner. Published in mid, Bad Blood is a compulsively readable account of Theranos Inc., a Silicon Valley unicorn that truly was a fairy tale. Its charismatic young founder persuaded an A-list of wealthy people to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on a pipe dream: her spurious claim that a small, portable machine could accurately, speedily diagnose hundreds of diseases from a drop of blood.
At one point Theranos was worth $9 billion, and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout with no medical or scientific training, was briefly worth more than $ billion. She was hailed as the next Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg all rolled into one; in a nod to her hero Jobs, she even wore the same brand of black turtleneck sweaters that Jobs wore, and she got around Palo Alto in a black Audi sedan lacking license pla
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About Flanker Press
Turning pages since
Flanker Press is a bright spark in the Newfoundland and Labrador publishing scene. As the province’s most active publisher of trade books, the company now averages twenty new titles per year, with a heavy emphasis on regional non-fiction and historical fiction.
The mission of Flanker Press is to provide a quality publishing service to the local and regional writing community and to actively promote its authors and their books in Canada and abroad.
Now located in Paradise, Flanker Press has grown from a part-time venture in to a business with eight full-time employees. In the fall of , Flanker Press launched a new imprint, Pennywell Books. This imprint includes literary fiction, short stories, young adult fiction, and children’s books.
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