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This reminds me of an article recently in businessweek about the tax loophole with trusts that Sheldon Adelson uses.

My understanding is that Kevin Rose had the idea, and Adelson helped bring it to fruition.

There's lots of examples out there: Jay Adelson founded Digg at 34 and Revision3 at 35.

People like Sheldon Adelson will still continue to contribute huge sums of money to candidates, he'll just be able to do it directly now.

$250M might seem like a lot of money, but consider that Sheldon Adelson spent, by most estimates, upwards of $150M in campaign contributions in 2012 alone.

Perhaps this is true but when one Buffet, Walton, Gate, or Adelson controls about as much of the pie as a hundred million people I can almost guarantee no one will really like the results.

Well, #hilary2016 is obvious, but more insidiously, after unlimited funding for super PACs became the de facto unit of all political engagement, everyone is organizing a massive push to counter people like Adelson and the Kochs.

> US billionaire Sheldon Adelson - a staunch supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a big donor to the Republican party - who said dropping an atom bomb in the middle of Iran's desert would ensure that they get the message.

Go down that immense list of people for whom college was nearly or entirely meaningless: from Jobs to Carmack, from Rockefeller to Carnegie, from Gates to Wayne Huizenga, from Renault to William Hanna, from Sheldon Adelson to Richard Branson, and on it goes.

Quoth Sheldon Adelson: "So what if Israel isn't a democracy (in the future).

The "black hats" can raise $5 for every $1 raised by the "white hats." Sheldon Adelson can drop tens of millions like that.

Kevin Rose confirmed this during the Digg Townhall, and Jay Adelson said "we're not going after stumbleupon" to which Kevin replied "we kinda are." Still doesn't interest me that much though, rarely use digg - just every now and then when I'm bored.

Americans", 4 inherited it; of the six who didn't, one has a degree (Warren Buffett), and 5 are drop-outs: Bill Gates, Sheldon Adelson, Larry Ellison, Paul Allen, and Michael Dell.

Georgy Adelson-Velsky, who invented AVL trees and bitboards for chess software, spoke no English.

The majority of profits of Las Vegas Sands (Sheldon Adelson) and Wynn Resorts Limited (Steve Wynn) comes from properties they built in Macau.

Sheldon Adelson's came from people staying and gambling at his hotel.