Tagged: Ice bucket challenge
Elon Musk took the ice bucket challenge after being nominated by Bill Gates, who was nominated by Mark Zuckerberg. He did build a custom contraption to dump water on his head, but it didn’t rival Gates’s welded masterpiece. Still, the video was very cute, with Elon’s five young sons dumping water on him by pulling strings to release colorful elevated buckets from a tree....
I didn’t think it was possible to win the ice bucket challenge, but Bill Gates did. First of all, he was nominated by Mark Zuckerberg, and nominated Elon Musk. Then, his video was outright cinematic (see below). Seriously, it was more of a short film than a video. Thirdly, he designed and built a custom rig to dump ice water on himself, and he...
Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, accepted the challenge from Phil Schiller, Apple’s marketing head, and took on the ice bucket challenge in front of thousands of employees at Apple’s bi-weekly Beer Bash – Yes I didn’t know that event existed either, but apparently it does. Cook took on the ALS-challenge while blasting the song “Ice-Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice – an apt choice of sound....
At an Amazon all-hands, in front of thousands of employees, Jeff Bezos took on the ice bucket challenge. He was recently challenged by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. He started off with a joke: “I was going to challenge Edward Snowden, but I was afraid [the bucket] would just leak”. He then followed it up with another joke about picking the queen, the pope, and Kim...