Takafumi Horie s comeback 堀江贵文的回归 Up, up and away 升高,升高再升高 The controversial entrepreneur remainspopular, brash and ambitious 这个有着很大争议的企业家依旧很受欢迎并且野心勃勃 IN 2005 Takafumi Horie, then president of Livedoor, an internet firm, joined the X PRIZEFoundation, 2005年,互联网公司活力门的总经理堀江贵文加入了X奖基金会。 a charity which gives cash for innovative projects such as space tourism. X奖基金会是一个慈善组织,这个组织会为一些创新科技项目提供资金,如:太空旅行。 Joining forces with the likes of Larry Page and Elon Musk, co-founders of Google and PayPalrespectively, was a typically bold move by the self-styled boy billionaire from Fukuoka. 加入一个有拉里佩奇和埃隆?马斯克这样的人的组织,无疑是这个福冈不为人知的亿万富翁小子的一项勇敢举措。拉里佩奇和埃隆?马斯克分别是谷歌和贝宝的合作创建人。 Instead of going into orbit, however, Mr Horie wentbehind bars. 不像其他人那样走的一帆风顺,堀江贵文曾在监狱服过刑。 He was arrested in Japan s biggest financial scandal of the decade. |