Divers push the limits of human evolution by descending hundreds of meters below the surface, fighting massive levels of water pressure and minutes without oxygen. Patrick Musimu, a leading figure and eventual victim of freediving, rejected the term extreme sport, calling it an adventure.
How Spotify can survive -- at least for a while. Spotify has a huge headstart on Apple, which the company reemphasized by publishing updated user numbers two days after the Apple Music announcement. Daniel Ek's Swedish startup now has 75 million active users, 20 million of whom are paid subscribers.
Itâs called Zappos. A couple of months later, the uber smart 27-year old Hsieh joined the company as its CEO and, well, the rest is history. Today, Zappos is a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon (having been acquired for $1.2 billion in 2009) and its roughly 1,500 employees, headquartered in Las Vegas, produce in excess of $2 billion in revenues annually.