Future of StoryTelling that are addressed by speakers at the event. The 2012 FoST Film series featured sixteen short films with speakers such as Damian Kulash of OK Go, Aaron Koblin of Google’s Data Arts Team, and Richelle Parham, VP and CMO of eBay. The 2013 FoST Film series included twenty films with speakers such as Angela Ahrendts, former CEO of Burberry, Robert Wong, CCO of Google Creative Lab, and Eddy Moretti, CCO of Vice Media. All the films can be found on the official Future of StoryTelling website. Rather than giving talks from a main stage, FoST speakers lead 60-minute, think tank¬–style
John Simmons (clothing manufacturer) was thus an innovator in making ready-to-wear clothing in standard sizes. By the end of the American Civil War, he had become the country’s largest clothing manufacturer. With the profits from his clothing business, he became a real estate investor and eventually owned much of the Financial District in Boston. When Simmons died in 1870, his will provided for his estate to "found and endow an institution to be called Simmons Female College, for the purpose of teaching medicine, music, drawing, designing, telegraphy, and other branches of art, science, and industry best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an