{"id":10079,"date":"2013-02-08T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T09:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sheldon_adelson_continues_to_give_back.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:43:04","slug":"sheldon-adelson-continues-to-give-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/sheldon-adelson-continues-to-give-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon Adelson Continues to Give Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/800px-Sheldon_Adelson_21_June_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2013\/02\/800px-Sheldon_Adelson_21_June_2010-thumb-500x333-12370.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Sheldon_Adelson_21_June_2010.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Adelson was the founder of the COMDEX trade show and early in my career his team was gracious enough to work with me to promote the first magazine I published named CTI. I have always been impressed by his business skills &ndash; he ran the largest show in the US and when he sold it and stopped his involvement it went downhill fairly quickly and eventually collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>At the peak of the show in the late nineties in Atlanta, GA, TMC gave away well over 10,000 magazines from a 20&#215;30 booth &ndash; there are few other shows &ndash; even today where you could achieve such a feat. As I recall, we probably could have given out even more but we ran out!<\/p>\n<p>After he sold COMDEX, he then went on to run a string of global casinos &ndash; very successfully. He seems to turn everything he touches into gold. Moreover he has been a great philanthropist having founded a school in his local community which I hear firsthand is quite good. He has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/adelsons-donate-50-million-to-school-190128741.html\">donated<\/a> an additional $50M to The Adelson Educational Campus allowing it to expand and improve the education of students in the Las Vegas area.<\/p>\n<p>The media seems to be obsessed with talking about tech&rsquo;s latest movers and shakers like Mark Zuckerberg but its worth pointing out that events like COMDEX were in-part responsible for laying the foundation for everything we experience in tech today. Moreover, yesterday&rsquo;s tech leaders like Adelson are still actively giving back to the world in many positive ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheldon Adelson was the founder of the COMDEX trade show and early in my career his team was gracious enough to work with me to promote the first magazine I published named CTI. I have always been impressed by his business skills &ndash; he ran the largest show in the US and when he sold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,162,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19080,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10079\/revisions\/19080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}