dinners?
well we should talk soon to figure out how to best do these dinners in order to make them useful to you and get the greatest participation from high quality individuals we will need to find the best way to link to charitable investments I'd suggest that you pay either a $10K honorarium to an individual or a $20-25K contribution to the charitable organization of their choice (or that they represent). this is how i've done it in the past and it seems to work, as long as there is a clear theme that meshes with your charitable mission each dinner would host up to 8 guests plus you and me we would do one each quarter
here are some ideas for dinners that i think would be interesting:
- cryptology and biology
find the world's greatest hackers but putting out a cryptic message online. only the smartest ones will be able to figure it out. then they will hack your website, so will need to reinforce there. they will be between 18-25 years old. bring them together with 3-4 biologists and have them discuss hacking the human codes.
- conspiracy and neuroscience
i've sent you this list before and the general idea
- elite physiology and aging
invite bikram, lance armstrong, your swimmer buddy dana, and haile gebreselassie (he's actually very nice!), +/- phelps, then the older ones like bruce jenner, charles barkley (because he's hysterically funny) and a few non-traditional types and 2 aging experts
- time
lord knows there are tons of physicists that would be good for this one. but i would also consider a neuroscientist here.
I also think you should consider having small dinners with extremely interesting people that might require travel on your part:
-Charles Taylor (former Liberian dictator) - now at the Hague on trial
-Saif Qadaffi (son of) - he gets around
-Ignatius Chombo (#2 man in Zimbabwe, runs diamond industry and most of country)
-Andry Rajoelina (prez of Madagascar, DJ...) [Rajoelina's personal fortune derives from the wealth of his wife's family. The son of a colonel and a high school drop-out, by age 20 Rajoelina was working as a disc jockey in various clubs and bars around
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