"Game of Thrones" goes to great lengths to bring George R.R. Martin's Westeros to life. 

Costume designers and hair stylists for the show draw inspiration from cultures from all over the world in order to capture this expansive and diverse world.

The cast members themselves are always willing to commit, whether they play a king, a queen, or a knight. Some wear lavish wigs while others chop their hair right off.

Many of the actors are barely recognizable in real life. If you passed by a few of them on the street, you probably wouldn't even know it.

In season five, Sansa Stark goes for a new, darker look as she tags along with Little Finger.

In real life, Turner dyes her hair for the show. When her character had red hair, they had to use a "mix of four different watercolor shades."

(Source: Fashionista)

Here's how Kit Harington looks as Jon Snow.

Silicon Valley's perk-filled campuses are the stuff of legends.

With a huge variety of free or cheap food available at all times of the day, tech companies' cafeterias are arguably the best perk of all. 

But which tech company has the best food? Foursquare helped us compile a list of the tech cafeterias with the most satisfied customers. 

To determine the ranking, Foursquare's data science team used a set of algorithms to calculate a "sentiment score." The sentiment score represents how many likes a cafeteria received, as well as whether the tone of the tips were generally positive or negative.

The more positive the sentiment score, the better it did in Foursquare's ranking.

Foursquare's own Fat Denny's cafeteria was excluded from the analysis.

#10 GOOGLE: Tetsuwan Atom Cafe

Googlers can enjoy free ramen and sushi at this campus cafe. 

One favorite dish is a miso ramen served with pork, mushrooms, jalapeños, kimchi, and seaweed.

According to one Foursquare tip, Tetsuwan Atom used to be a secret cafe reserved for people working on Android, but now it's open to everyone at Google.

#9 LINKEDIN: InCafe

LinkedIn employees love the weekly specials at their campus cafeteria. 

"I don't think I've ever had anything that isn't cooked perfectly here,"LinkedIn engineer Jon Bringhurst writes on Foursquare.

There's also a jukebox you can control with an app called Rockbot. 

#8 APPLE: Caffè Macs - Results Way

This outpost on Apple's campus has "quality ingredients and reasonable prices," according to Foursquare user Rahul Sarathy. 

The breakfast is delicious, and you can get apples for free.

Greece maybe tumbling towards a messy default on its debt, and it may even have to exit the eurozone. But it will do so in style, thanks to Yanis Varoufakis. 

The Greek finance minister has taken Europe's economic institutions by storm, found his way onto the front page of every newspaper and (reportedly) into the hearts of plenty of German women. 

And he's barely been in politics for four months.

Whether you're in awe or loathe him, there's no avoiding Yanis Varoufakis.

Before he got into politics, Varoufakis was an academic, and spent some time as chief economist of video game company Valve.

Varoufakis only announced he would run for election in January 2015, less than three weeks before the government actually came into power.

A few days after the election Varoufakis had an incredibly awkward back-and-forth with Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem, setting the frosty diplomatic tone.

Travelers always want to bring home something that will remind them of their trip — but many often get stuck buying cheap knick knacks from tourist traps. 

To avoid getting something you’ll only throw away in a few months, we’ve rounded up a list of some authentic items you should buy when abroad. 

Forget keychains and mini Eiffel Tower sculptures, here are the real best things to bring home from 19 countries around the world.

ARGENTINA: Leather goods

Argentina is famous for its leather products, so it’s a perfect place to pick up a pair of leather gloves, some leather shoes, or a leather wallet. 

The country has plenty of small boutiques where you can buy quality leather goods. 

BELGIUM: Lace

Belgium is home to some of the best lace and tapestry studios in the world. Belgian lace is all handmade, and often involves using over 100 threads per bobbin.

The cities of Brussels and Bruges are both known for their intricate lacework.

CHINA: Tea pot

Anything relating to tea would be a great souvenir to bring home from China.

A painted tea pot or tea cups would be a beautiful memento, but you could also bring back a tin of authentic Chinese tea to continue to enjoy at home. Opt for green tea, black tea, brick tea, scented tea, and oolong tea.

Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II just listed his stunning Florida Keys home for $14.5 million, Realtor.com reports. 

Earlier this month, the Palm Beach Daily News reported that Tudor Jones purchasedCasa Apava, a waterfront estate in Palm Beach, for a $71.2 million. 

Tudor Jones' Islamorada estate that's on the market now sits on 6.41 acres of bay-front property. It features a main house, two guest cottages, a pool and spa, and a deep boat basin, among other amenities. 

Cheri Tindall with Sotheby's International Realty has the listing.

Tudor Jones, who has an estimated net worth of $4.6 billion, recently made headlines for giving a dire warning about the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the US. 

The estate features 12,400 square feet of living space. In addition to the main house, there are two guest cottages on the property.

The two-story main residence has six bedrooms, five bathrooms, and three half baths.

The bay-front estate also features a deep-water boat basin with a jetty that makes the property accessible for yachts.

The five young men of Team Liquid earn more than $60,000 each, plus tens of thousands through sponsorship and streaming deals, and live for free in an LA condo just for being good at League of Legends, the most popular competitive video game in the world.

Altogether the best of them are easily taking home six figures.

Despite a roster loaded with top players, it has been stuck around fourth place in North America. With the addition of a former world champion, however, hopes are high that the team will earn a shot at the World Championship's $1-million prize.

Being a professional gamer is a sweet gig, but it's not all fantasy. With high pressure and low job security, gamers play up to 14 hours a day to stay on top of their craft, all while devoting their formative years to skills that may have little marketable value later in life.

That's why Alex “Xpecial” Chu told his younger brother, a talented gamer in his own right, to stay out of pro-gaming. “I know how hard it is,” he says.

We visited the team in Santa Monica, California, to get a first-hand look.

Team Liquid lives in a duplex in Santa Monica. I arrived late in the morning to hang out with the team as they prepared for game day.

When I arrived around 12:30 p.m., most of the team was still asleep. As Team Liquid owner Steve Arhancet told me, "Gamers run on a different schedule than the rest of the world." Most of Team Liquid wakes up around 12 p.m. and many stay up playing the game until 3 a.m. or later.

The only people awake were Liquid coach Peter "PtotheD" Zhang (left) and Diego "Quas" Ruiz, a quiet 23-year-old from Maracaibo, Venezuela. Ruiz honed his skills at League by using the computers at an internet cafe run by his mother. He's in the US now on a professional sports visa.

In 2010, Courtney Carver realized she simply had too many clothes.

“I remember thinking, ‘we have to do something about this closet,’” she told Business Insider. “I was decluttering my entire life and documenting it on my website Be More With Less, and my closet seemed to be a hotspot. It really started as a personal challenge — with all the clutter in the closet, I had no idea even what my style was.” 

But instead of selling or donating just a few items, Carver decided she would do a complete overhaul and only allow herself to keep 33 clothing items for an entire three month season. 

That included shoes, outerwear, clothing, accessories, and jewelry.

“I did a rough count of 33 items — it would cover four pairs of shoes, and this many shirts, this many pants, etc.,” explained Carver. She kept her favorite pieces that were flattering and fit her best, and decided she would not allow herself to shop or buy new clothes for three months unless she switched an item out with something else: If she bought a new shirt, she’d have to get rid of another one.

She began to document the process on a new website she called Project 333— 33 items of clothing for three months. Carver called it her “capsule wardrobe.”

Since then, capsule wardrobes have spread across America and around the world. “There are people in almost every state in the US and in many, many other countries making capsule wardrobes,” Carver said. “It’s interesting to see that over-shopping is a problem for us here, but it’s also an international issue.” 

One capsule wardrobe-convert is blogger Laura Blanton of The Lovely Laura Life who’s based in Southwest Ohio. She was inspired to start a capsule wardrobe after coming across Project 333 as well as another popular capsule wardrobe blog called Un-Fancy by Caroline Joy Rector. 

“I liked the idea of minimizing my wardrobe, especially because I didn’t like my spending habits,” Blanton told Business Insider. “I had no idea how much I was spending on clothes, but I knew it was definitely too much and didn’t line up with priorities in my life.”

But Blanton’s capsule wardrobe hit a snag a month later.

“After I started, I found out I was pregnant,” Blanton told us. “So I was building these seasonal maternity capsules and it was like the three different phases of pregnancy."

Though it was intimidating, Blanton stuck with her capsule wardrobe through all phases of her pregnancy. She is even planning to expand the idea to a yearly capsule wardrobe of 75 pieces (or less) because of the unpredictability of Midwest seasons. “I’m still in the building phase and I have a master list of what I want to attain to keep me focused,” she said.

The capsule wardrobe movement can be tied to a growing minimalistic trend in the fashion community.

Take for instance Marie Kondo and her wildly popular book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” A celebrity in Japan, Kondo’s entire premise is similar to the capsule wardrobe, but on a macro scale — only surround yourself by the things that bring you joy or make you the happiest, whether that’s your clothing or household mementos.

Carver even wrote a blog post on Project 333 about "Kondo-ing" her capsule wardrobe.

Then there’s Matilda Kahl, a 27-year-old art director in New York, who has gone viral after sharing her story about wearing the same outfit to work for three years. 

“I have realized how much more efficient, productive, and happy I can be when I don’t let myself get distracted by the small things in life,” Kahl told Business Insider. “The uniform has become a great everyday reminder that I (and only I) decide what is important.”

She said wearing the same outfit keeps her from having creative fatigue when she’s working during the week — something Carver agreed with strongly.

“It’s becoming more and more mainstream,” Carver said of minimalistic wardrobes. “All creatives like to express themselves through what they wear, but they’re finding they are better able to focus their creative energies when they’re not thinking about how to create the perfect look.”

Ultimately, making a capsule wardrobe is about finding clarity in your style and life in general. Both Blanton and Carver said that it has helped them stop impulse shopping and uncovered their own personal sense of fashion.

“I don’t have to give a lot of attention to what I’m going to wear,” Carver said. “I’m saving time and money, and I find that with dressing with less, I get to wear my favorite things every day.”

If you’re just getting started building a capsule wardrobe, here’s some of their best advice:

1. Start by getting rid of everything you don’t love

“I think we all need to figure out what works best for us,” Carver said. “Get rid of the excess and start with the bare bones.”

Put the clothes that don’t fit you, you haven't worn in a while, or that you know you don't love into a separate box and store them away for the first three months of your capsule wardrobe.

When you pull them out later on, chances are you’ll realize that they don’t fit your style or body type, and you’ll wonder why you were holding onto them in the first place.

2. Create a master list of things you need

Look at what’s left in your closet after you purge, and then make a list of everything you need to buy, finding inspiration on Pinterest or blogs. Try and think about dual-purpose clothing items that you can layer in the fall and winter or wear alone in the summer. 

“Some seasons I’ll have less than 33 items,” Carver told us. “Especially in the summer when I don’t need to count extra outerwear like hat, gloves, and things like that.”

3. Try to do all your shopping at once

Once you have your master list, do all of your shopping at once to fill the gaps and missing pieces — this will negate the need to impulse shop because you’ll know you’re simply not allowed to buy something new for the next three months.

If this doesn’t seem doable or you love thrifting, Blanton suggested giving yourself a one week rule. “I force myself to at least wait one week before I think about it again,” she said. “If you avoid it long enough, there’s not such a strong desire and you can be more logical." 

4. Be lenient with yourself 

Some people like to follow rules for their capsule wardrobe like Carver to prove to themselves they can do it. Others like Blanton prefer to not be so strict with her wardrobe.

“All three of my capsules were different numbers,” she said. “I started out with 50 because I differentiated between my work wardrobe and my everyday wardrobe. But after I did that first wardrobe I realized it was way more than it needed to be so I downsized to around 35.”

Ultimately, the goal of a capsule wardrobe is not to follow a set of arbitrary rules, but to be more intentional with your life. 

5. Jump right in — the hardest part is the fear of starting

“The biggest struggle was before I started and it was the fear of not having enough,” Carver said. “But all of these imaginary things I worried about like running out of clothes or people at work noticing, none of them happened.”

The hardest part is always getting started. If you want to build a capsule wardrobe, just do it.

SEE ALSO: A simple method for making sure your clothes match

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Etsy, the online marketplace that specializes in crafts and other artistic items, went public Thursday morning with an opening price valuing it over $3.7 billion.  

One critique of the company leading up to its IPO was that as the site tried to scale, it was losing its unique selection of items that weren't mass-produced. 

We checked out the site and decided that that is definitely not true. 

You can buy these custom wedding cake toppers for $950.

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This creepy little 2-foot tall sculpture takes "hours upon days upon weeks" for its creator to make and sells for $180.

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A year ago Thursday, a ferry carrying 476 people sank off the coast of Incheon, near Seoul, South Korea, during a routine trip to the island of Jeju.

In all, 295 people aboard the Sewol perished, many of them high-school students and teachers who were on a field trip. Many of the bodies still have not been recovered.

Since the disaster, controversy has centered on the South Korean government's response. Some argue the government attempted to whitewash its accountability in the incident; others have called for a thorough investigation.

Parents of the students who died in the catastrophe are still reeling from their loss a year later. Many still keep their children's rooms intact to keep their memories alive. Reuters photographer Kim Hong-Ji visited their homes and documented the families and the rooms.

Huh Heung-hwan (R) and Park Eun-mi, the parents of Huh Da-yoon, a high school student who died in the Sewol ferry disaster. "I haven't thought about anything but finding my daughter. I will never give up until I find her. For a year, every day was like that day, April 16, 2014. The times I laughed about trivial things have became precious moments. I thought living an ordinary life was the easiest thing, but I've realized it is the hardest thing," Park says.

Shin Jum-ja (R) and Jung Soo-beom, mother and younger brother of Jung Hwi-beom, a high school student who died in the Sewol ferry disaster. "Before the accident, my family talked a lot. Now we save our words, trying not to hurt each other. I am eager to see Hwi-beom just once. I wish I could hug him," says Shin.

Lee Sun-mi, mother of high school student Kim Ju-hee. "A thorough investigation has to be conducted. Spring has come and flowers are blossoming, but moms cannot smile. I hope the children who are still missing will be found. I wish I could bring back my daughter. The world after the tragedy is not the place that I had known," she says.

Some people dream of getting married in a castle. For everyone else, there's No Man's Land Fort off the coast of southern England.

It's not a castle – but it's definitely unique.

It's a Victorian-era sea fort that's been completely renovated by AmaZing Venues into a luxury hotel that sleeps 44. There's also an events space. 

Being a fort smack dab in the middle of the sea means it has a spectacular 360 degree view of the surrounding water and islands.

And if views aren't your thing, there's the "LaZer Battle Arena," mini golf, hot tubs, fire pits, spa facilities, a cabaret-style bar, shops, and restaurants packed into the space.

Welcome to No Man's Land Fort, an sea fort built in the middle of The Solent straight.

It was built between 1867 and 1880 to defend the island city of Portsmouth from suspected French invasion. The fort is about a two hour drive from central London.

The Victorian-era fort has been completely refurbished by AmaZing Venues for use as a hotel and reception venue.

By now, startups like Slack, MongoDB, Cloudera, Pure Storage are well known for their fast-growing businesses.

But we wondered: Who are the fastest-growing startups in the world that serve businesses, that we should be hearing about next (i.e. enterprise startups)?

That's a loaded question, we know. It all depends on your definition of "fastest growing." Startups are private companies that don't have to release their revenue numbers, so we couldn't measure them that way.

We turned to PitchBook Data, a company that monitors the public records of venture and private equity funding, to help us.

No. 15, Pulsate: Helping retailers use iBeacons

Company:Pulsate

Growth rate: ~9%

Last funding: a $1.2 million seed round in January (at a 2.14x multiple)

Pulsate is an Dublin, Ireland, startup that offers a cloud service for managing iBeacons. It currently mostly targets retailers, helping them take advantage of Apple's location-transmitting devices (iBeacons).

No. 14, SkyGiraffe: Easy mobile apps

Company:SkyGiraffe

Growth rate: ~9%

Last funding: a $3 million early stage round in February (at a 1.77x multiple)

Every company these days is writing custom mobile apps and Israeli company SkyGiraffe helps them easily build them, it says, without needing to hire expensive software developers.

No. 13, Inkshares: Kickstarter for book lovers

Company: Inkshares

Growth rate: ~9.5%

Last funding: an $870,000 seed round in December (at a nearly 7.94x multiple)

Inkshares is a Kickstarter-style crowdfunded book publishing platform in San Francisco. Authors pitch their novels, readers vote by agreeing to buy the book, and with enough vote-orders, Inkshares publishes the book.

Early Friday, Bloomberg LP experienced a "significant" unexplained outage of its terminals. 

With the Bloomberg terminal outage, traders were forced to pick up the phone and do it the old fashioned way. 

A Bloomberg Terminal is a must-have machine for traders. They use them to message others, obtain real-time market data, news, and stock quotes among many other functions.

Wall Street is pretty much spoiled by the incredible $20,000-per-year machine. 

Before broadband fired live quotes and analysis at the speed of light to our smartphones, traders used to read bid-ask spreads off of chalkboards and historical data off of miles of ticker tape.

We went way back to see how trading was done in the pre-Bloomberg terminal era. We even went back before ticker tape was a thing.

With the help of images from the Museum of American Finance in New York, we put together a brief, visual history of trading technology, from ticker tape to the present. 

Editor's Note: Former Business Insider writer Rob Wile contributed to the original version of this feature.

Brokers called the main trading room downtown 'The Curb Exchange.' This was before it became the American Stock Exchange.

Photo from 1915.

Much of the time, deals would be conducted out of windows to traders on curbs.

And traders were hardcore. Here they are on the Curb Exchange during a snowstorm.

Congratulations! You've landed yourself an internship on Wall Street this summer.

While this is just the very first step to building a career on the Street, the stakes are high – if you play this right, it could lead to an entry-level job.

"The most common path to getting a first-year analyst offer is to have completed a summer internship with that bank, or to have completed a summer internship with a related bank," says Chandler Holbrook of OneWire, a career website for finance professionals.

Scott Rostan, the founder and CEO of Training The Street, which gives courses to prepare young people for internships and analyst jobs on Wall Street, says that banks actually want to hire their summer interns.

"This isn’t Lord of the Flies," Rostan said. "We’re not just throwing you out there to see what happens."

If every Wall Street intern were up to par, he said, the banks would hire them all. But some are more prepared than others.

You obviously want to be one of those, so Business Insider asked Rostan and Holbrook, as well as OneWire's founder and CEO, Skiddy von Stade, for tips on how to prepare and what you should know before your Wall Street internship.

Here you go:

1. Establish yourself as a go-to person.

"Just being present, establishing yourself as that go-to person as much as possible – the one where they know that you can get the project done quickly, accurately, efficiently – that’s the number one goal," said Holbrook. "Because you want to be that person that they think of when they’re sitting down, doling out offers."

So how do you do that?

2. Work on your communications skills.

"Some skill sets that people forget about, which are critical in being successful on Wall Street, are communication skills," said von Stade. "If you look at any successful banker on Wall Street ... their greatest skill [is] communication. Because it’s a people business."

3. Learn to work with a team.

Training The Street polled MBA students who had been offered full-time jobs on Wall Street and found that their ability to work in teams was a major reason why they were hired.

"Just being able to build relationships with the people around you is incredibly important," said OneWire's Holbrook.

4. Learn to use Excel.

The hard skills you will need may not be the ones you'd expect.

"They’re not expecting anyone – the interns – to come in knowing a lot when it comes to financial modeling," said Holbrook.

She recommends brushing up on your Excel and PowerPoint skills instead, "because the faster you can make a company profile or build a valuation model, the more that will set you apart."

Rostan recommended brushing up on your basic accounting skills as well.

It's "kind of like learning a foreign language for a business professional," he said. "The language of financial statements and the language of the spreadsheet. And once you’re very adept in both of those languages then you can see the applications much, much easier."

5. Don't waste your time with unnecessary research.

One analyst that OneWire has worked with, who started out as a summer intern, said she went into her internship having done a lot of macro-level research on the market she would be covering – but that, ultimately, she barely used that information.

Instead, what got that woman hired was her ability to build valuation models and make company profiles quickly, and her willingness to step up when needed, according to Holbrook.

6. Use online prep materials.

"There are a lot of publicly free, available, modeling tests and templates that analysts and interns can access online that can help prepare them," said Holbrook.

7. Learn to use the Bloomberg terminal.

"The Bloomberg terminal is helpful as well because you’re probably going to be asked to look up different companies, do research on them, [and] pull information and data from them," said Holbrook.

8. Be confident.

"You impress your peers and you impress your business managers in meetings where you get up, you stand up, and you have an opinion, and you speak with authority and with conviction," said von Stade.

9. But be careful with your questions.

"I think there’s a limit to how many questions you ask senior people and when you ask them," said Holbrook. "If you’re a summer intern and you don’t know something and it’s taking you a while to figure it out on your own, first ask the other summer interns – ask your peers – and if you need to go higher, just ask the analysts."

"It kind of goes contrary to the traditional wisdom of ‘ask a lot of questions’ and ‘there’s no stupid question,’ but you want to be cognizant of the senior folks’ time – and how you’re perceived," she added.

10. Learn to make mistakes the right way.

"Everybody makes mistakes," said Rostan. "It’s a question of when the mistake was made and when it was realized and how do you respond to that."

He said it helps to be humble and responsive to feedback.

11. Get as much deal experience as you can.

"A lot of the analysts are really focused in their summer internships on getting as much deal and transaction experience and modelling experience as possible," said Holbrook. It will prepare you the most for the real world.

13. Don't forget to show you're interested all the time.

"If you have the opportunity to get an internship, jump at it as fast as you can and take it very seriously," said von Stade. "Work as hard as you can, be the last one to leave, and show that you really have commitment."

Like with any job, he said, you have to be passionate and show that you really want it.

14. Be ready for anything – including long work days.

"You’re not going to be going home at 6 pm every night and it’s just something that’s part of the experience and you have to kind of take it with a smile and just put your head down and do the work," said Holbrook.

"Sometimes you have deadlines that are pretty aggressive and you do what it takes to get the job done. You could be working late one night and they say, 'We have to jump on this plane to go on this live pitch' the next morning … You have to learn to be ready for anything."

15. Seriously, be ready to jump on an airplane.

Even if you're not taking a flight with your manager, you want to be engaging and competent enough that he or she would consider it. In other words, you have to seem ready for anything.

"If I was hiring somebody at that level, I would say, ‘Okay, I’ve gotta fly out to San Francisco. Do I want this person to sit next to me on the plane?’" said von Stade.

"If you look at all the people that are successful on Wall Street ... they’re very outgoing, they are very smart, ... they’re very good at reading a situation and adapting to a situation."

16. Remember, they're trying to recruit you – so get networking.

"The firms view the internship as a 10-week interview, but they also view it as 10-week recruitment," said Rostan. "So they tend to have more social events and they want [the interns] to be able to network and talk to people and have a non-purely working experience."

Networking opportunities will include casual happy hours, more formal events, and of course there are always opportunities to take your managers or mentors out for coffee. So make the most of it!

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Business books are notorious for being loaded with MBA lard, trotting out "key takeaways" like "take risks,""build a great team," and "don't be afraid to fail." 

But the ones worth reading ditch the platitudes in favor of instructive anecdotes — which is why they so often come from execs who have lived through it. 

From fashion startups to automotive empires, here are the best leadership books from people who have led their companies to success.

"The Hard Thing About Hard Things"

What is the hard thing about hard things? That they don't have a formula, says Ben Horowitz.

"Hard things are hard because there are no easy answers or recipes," he writes. "They are hard because your emotions are at odds with your logic. They are hard because you don’t know the answer and you cannot ask for help without showing weakness." 

Horowitz, now one of the most sought-after investors in the game, used to be CEO of software management company Opsware before it was acquired by HP for $1.6 billion. 

Bonus: Horowitz shows off his ridiculously extensive knowledge of rap lyrics — quoting Kanye West and DMX before the close of the opening chapter. 

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Disclosure: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, is an investor in Business Insider.

"My Years with General Motors"

Alfred Sloan was the CEO of General Motors from 1923 to 1946 — when the car company was arguably the most important organization on Earth. 

More than your average business memoir, the book is a distillation of Sloan's experiences and thoughts around how to steer a massive organization. It serves as a treatise on decentralization and the structure of the modern corporation. 

Buy it here >>

"Rework"

Coauthored by Jason Fried, the cofounder and CEO of Basecamp, "Rework" is a spare startup manifesto. 

While everything in the book might not apply to you — Fried's company has remained at a tiny 37 members while staying profitable — it's useful for the contrarian mirror it provides. After reading it, you'll scrutinize every meeting request that crosses your desk. 

Buy it here >>

The biggest names in sports pay top dollar for homes that feature everything they need to relax off the court, field, or ring. 

From Manny Pacquiao's new $12 million pad to Kobe Bryant's Orange County mansion — complete with a hair salon and shark tank — it's safe to say that these sports titans truly live in the lap of luxury. 

We estimated the approximate current value of each house by looking at recent sales and public assessors' records, and speaking to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets. 

30. Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s Las Vegas getaway

Boxer

Estimated value:$3.6 million

Mayweather's mansion in the middle of the Las Vegas desert has 24-foot ceilings, crystal chandeliers, walls covered in red silk and textured glass, and every luxury imaginable. Its two-story movie theater, touch-screen video games affixed to the kitchen counter, golf course, and wet bar make it the perfect place to rejuvenate between fights.

He listed the "half Bellagio and half Caesar's Palace"-style home for $3.45 million in 2013 — the highest list price ever placed on it — but withdrew it in February of last year, according to Las Vegas real estate expert Joe Herrera, co-founder of The Joe Taylor Group. With a 600-square-foot walk-in closet and space for his fleet of sports cars, we can't imagine why he'd ever want to leave.

To estimate the approximate current value of the homes, we looked at recent sales and public assessors' records, and we spoke to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets.

29. Maria Sharapova's Manhattan Beach abode

Tennis player

Estimated value:$4.1 million

Little is known about the place second-ranked tennis player Maria Sharapova calls home.

In 2013 she swapped out her Manhattan Beach, California, mansion for a quaint, $4.1 million oceanview property in the Hill section. She's a pillar of the M.B. community, having trained there for years and been awarded the key to the city in 2012.

Her other home, a Mediterranean-style home in Longboat Key, Florida — valued at $1.2 million— offers four bedrooms, a swimming pool, and a boat dock. She reportedly bought it with her winnings just before her 20th birthday. 

To estimate the approximate current value of the homes, we looked at recent sales and public assessors' records, and we spoke to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets.

28. Rory McIlroy's Florida paradise

Golfer

Estimated value:$5.2 million

In Rory McIlroy's 15,000-square-foot home in Jupiter, Florida, there's more than enough space for the 25-year-old golf champion to entertain. The estate holds six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, along with a game room, private gym, and, of course, a putting green. It was purchased in 2012 for $9.5 million, but it's currently appraised for about $5.2 million.

Right on the water, the house serves as a serene getaway from McIlroy's busy life. The location also provides space to dock a yacht, should he choose to purchase one. 

Florida isn't McIlroy's only dwelling either; rumor has it that he's currently living on Dubai's famous Palm Jumeirah island.

To estimate the approximate current value of the homes, we looked at recent sales and public assessors' records, and we spoke to expert realtors and appraisers in these homes' markets.

Samsung just released what will probably be among the best Android phones of 2015 — the Galaxy S6.

It's a lot different than Samsung's previous Galaxy phones — it's made of glass and metal, the camera takes better photos, and the software is cleaner and easier to use.

It's Samsung's best looking phone yet, and if you're looking to buy it, you'll probably want to protect it.

Here are some of the best cases we've seen so far from various accessory makers. 

Belkin Grip Candy SE

Price: $29.99

Belkin's Grip Candy SE case for the Galaxy S6 is made of a flexible, shock absorbent material so that it's easy to take on and off your phone. It comes in two color combinations: pink and purple, or black and white. It's not available yet, but Belkin's website says it's coming soon. 

Griffin Survivors Core

Price: $29.99

Griffin's Survivor Core case comes with a thick bumper for guarding the S6's aluminum edges and a clear back so you can still see the phone's color while protecting it. With the Survivor Core case, Griffin claims you can drop your phone from 6.6 feet without it breaking. 

Griffin Reveal

Price: $19.99

Griffin's Reveal case is another great choice if you want a case that's a bit smaller than the Survivor Core, but still comes with a protective bumper. Its rubber trim is much slimmer than that of the Survivor Core. 

The days of the jumbo jet are numbered. Since their debut in the late 1960s, planes such as the Boeing 747 and the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 have been the undisputed queens of the sky.

Unfortunately, the size, four-engine dependability, and range of these big planes are no longer enough of a competitive advantage to justify their operating costs. These relics of the 20th century often end up in places such as the Southern California Logistics Airport – more commonly known as the "bone yard."

The Southern California Logistics Airport is located in Victorville, California — about 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Due to its location in the Mojave desert, Victorville's warm and dry climate make it the perfect place to keep aging airplanes for extended periods of time.

Airplanes here have either been retired or declared "surplus"– not needed for immediate operations.

With weekend one of Coachella down and weekend two beginning Friday, it's time to take a look at some of this year's best performances.

Fergie surprised the crowd at David Guetta, Florence and the Machine gave a spiritual experience, and Madonna shocked Drake with a long, passionate kiss.

But that's just a few of the over 200 performers.

In case you didn't have the chance to attend this year's three-day festival in Indio, Cali., we put together the most awesome photos of musical performances we could find.

'Twas the photo seen 'round the world when Madonna went in for a surprise makeout session with Drake during his closing performance.

60-year-old Angus Young of AC/DC rocked the stage during opening night of the three-day festival.

Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine gave one of the most hair-raising performances.

More than just cute balls of fluff, rabbits are bred and groomed for competitions that are every bit as serious as dog shows.

We visited a tournament to see the astounding rigor that goes into rabbit judging.

"Want to see something extremely rare?" says Randy Gebelein, whose eyes light up as he retrieves a small black rabbit from its wire cage.

He sets it on AstroTurf and with his big hands gently molds the rabbit's body into an upright position.

The animal sits still as a dog awaiting a treat. Gebelein is one of three rabbit breeders in the state of Massachusetts who raises Britannia Petite, an expected frontrunner for Best In Show today.

More than a third of the top tech companies in the US were founded by people born outside of the country.

Their success stories drive many immigrants to come to the US in hopes of realizing the American Dream.

But just looking at their success makes it easy to overlook the fact that a lot of the immigrant founders had to overcome other problems – from language barriers to financial constraints – to achieve their extraordinary success.

Sergey Brin had a very 'difficult first year' in the US

Google cofounder Sergey Brin was just 6 years old when his family emigrated from the Soviet Union to settle in Maryland. His first memory of the US was of "sitting in the backseat of the car, amazed at all the giant automobiles on the highway," his mother Eugenia Brin told Moment Magazine.

She says Brin struggled to adjust to the new surroundings early on. He was bashful and spoke English with a heavy accent, which made the first year a "difficult year for him." 

“We were constantly discussing the fact we had been told that children are like sponges, that they immediately grasp the language and have no problem, and that wasn’t the case," she said.

It may have taken Brin longer to learn English, but he ended up in Stanford's PhD program in computer science, where he met Google cofounder Larry Page. Now Google is a $366 billion company, and Brin has a net worth of almost $30 billion.

Max Levchin lost his accent by watching American TV shows

Paypal cofounder Max Levchin was born in Ukraine, but moved to the US when he was 16 years old. 

Levchin says his family was quite poor when they got here in 1991, and he had a strong accent while speaking English. Although he was fluent in English, Levchin had a hard time understanding all the cultural references people were making at school.

To help his cultural assimilation, Levchin relied on American TV shows. He says he found a TV in a dumpster and fixed it to watch all the TV shows he wanted to.

"That's how I lost my accent and got a crash course on 1990s American pop culture," he told Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Just 7 years after settling in Chicago, Levchin cofounded PayPal in 1998 alongside Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. It was acquried by eBay for roughly $1.5 billion in 2002.

Chamath Palihapitiya grew up on welfare before becoming a billionaire investor

Chamath Palihapitiya, born in Sri Lanka, moved to Canada at the age of six. Early on, his father was unemployed and his family lived above a laundromat, relying on welfare.

But, being less privileged only motivated Palihapitiya to work harder. He'd obsess over the Forbes' Billionaires List, one day dreaming of making it big.

Finally, he got an electrical engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, and quickly became one of the most successful tech leaders at a very young age. 

He was the youngest VP in AOL's history at the age of 26. He was instrumental in Facebook's growth early on, becoming one of the longest-tenured senior executives there.

In 2011, he quit Facebook to launch his own venture capital firm called Social+Capital Partnership, which is now one of the fastest-growing VC firms in the Silicon Valley.