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North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple's 2013 State of the State Speech
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Lt. Governor Drew Wrigley, distinguished legislators, Justices of the Supreme Court, elected officials, tribal leaders, First Lady Betsy, Kathleen Wrigley, our military personnel and fellow citizens of North Dakota – welcome and thank you for being here today.
It is an honor and a privilege for me to address this joint session of the 63rd Legislative Assembly. This is the 15th time I have attended the delivery of the state of the state address and yes, I still have participated more times as a member of the legislative branch than I have as a member of the executive branch. But the tally is getting very close. Once again I look forward to continuing our work together this winter, in a spirit of true cooperation. North Dakota can continue to be a shining example to the nation of the great things that can be achieved in an atmosphere of true civility.
More and more the rest of the nation is looking to North Dakota with much curiosity. The national media contacts my office nearly every week asking the same question: "What are you guys doing out there anyhow?" I explain to them about our record of job creation and smart budgeting. But then they ask, "Isn't it all about the oil?" and I enjoy explaining to them that our unemployment rate, which is the lowest in the nation at 2.8 percent, is very low throughout the state including the Red River Valley which is about 260 miles from the nearest oil well. All of this leaves the national press even more curious about how we do things in North Dakota. When our Tourism Division adopted the nickname, "Legendary," ten years ago, I think they meant to invoke the images of Custer and Teddy Roosevelt. Now it's taking on a whole new meaning around the country. And we added to it on Saturday when the NDSU Bison won back-to-back National Football Championships.
Our great progress is allowing North Dakotans to stay close to home and it's attracting people from other states. We're now a state of 700,000 people, our highest population in the history of our state. Since 2000, we've added more than 60,000 new jobs while much of the nation has lost jobs, and our per-capita income has grown faster than any other state, moving us up from 38th place in 2000 to 7th place today.
What is the state of the state? Today we as a people are at an incredible moment in our state's history, and we are ready to write the next great chapter.
My remarks today will be presented around two main themes: the first theme is "Keep what's working" and the second theme is "Where do we go from here?"
For the last 12 years our successful strategies for job growth and economic development have begun with creating a positive business climate. That means a focus on low taxes, a reasonable regulatory climate, and the most responsive state government anywhere. In state government itself, we have found a model that has stood the test of time, which is to: fund our priorities responsibly; build strong reserves for the future; and provide tax relief whenever possible.
Let's review briefly some of the specific achievements of the last two years. In energy we continue to see our growth targets realized. We have seen amazing growth in crude oil production, increasing from 460,000 barrels per day when I spoke to you two years ago, to 747,000 barrels per day currently. Two years ago pipelines and rail capacity were major barriers to growth in oil and gas production. Since 2010 we have more than doubled our pipeline and rail capacity from less than 500,000 barrels of oil per day to one million barrels. Not only is that good for the industry but it also gets trucks off our roads.
Our production of natural gas has also more than doubled from two years ago. We have encouraged the gathering of natural gas and have also doubled processing capacity since the end of 2010. By 2014 we expect to have capacity to process 1.36 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. We are also promoting the use of natural gas at the well site instead of diesel fuel, and today we are seeing a leveling off of the percentage of natural gas that is being flared.
In the agriculture industry, we have worked with CHS Inc., formerly Cenex-Harvest States, to utilize some of our natural gas and convert it into nitrogen fertilizer for our farmers. This is truly a win-win situation for our state. Carl Casale, the president and CEO and other members of the CHS management team, were here in the Capitol recently to announce that they are proceeding with the first stage of a $1.3 billion construction project at Spiritwood. They tell me that the plant will produce 2,200 tons of ammonia fertilizer every day and employ between 100 and 150 people. Mark Palmquist, the executive vice president and chief operating officer of CHS Ag Business, is here with us today— let's give him and CHS a round of applause. Mark, thanks to you and all of your cooperative members for your continued investment in North Dakota.
Tourism had another outstanding year in 2012, with visits to our parks and other major attractions all showing significant increases. Visitors spent more than $2.5 billion in North Dakota last year continuing the upward trend of the last several years. Part of this success is due to our outstanding marketing efforts, but part of it is due to individual entrepreneurs who work hard every day to create a legendary tourist experience.
Jeremy Doan has spent the past 13 years developing the Black Leg Ranch near McKenzie into a premium tourist destination. Black Leg Ranch was established before statehood and five generations of the Doan Family have operated a working cattle ranch since 1882. But Jeremy and his brother, Jay, have greatly diversified the family business to include a very successful agri-tourism venture. Visitors are coming from all over the country and the world to experience ranch life, great hunting and fishing, and North Dakota hospitality.
Advanced manufacturing has taken a great leap forward in the last two years. Deere and Caterpillar are building new factories in Valley City and West Fargo, and our own entrepreneurs continue to create more jobs in manufacturing and many other industries.
Deb Anderson, president of Summers Manufacturing in Devils Lake, epitomizes the entrepreneurial spirit that is driving our success. Summers Manufacturing, an industry leader in the production of cultivators, sprayers and other agriculture equipment, has come a long way since it was established in a blacksmith shop more than 40 years ago.
Summers has expanded to include two manufacturing plants in Devils Lake and Maddock with more than 235,000 square feet of production and warehouse space. The company is owned by its 233 employees and they are always looking to expand and diversify their product line for their domestic and global customers.
Under Deb's leadership, Summers Manufacturing earned North Dakota's Exporter of the Year Award in 2008, after the company increased its export sales by 50 percent. Next month, Deb will be in Washington, D.C., where the Manufacturing Institute will hold an awards luncheon to recognize her and other women from across the country for their outstanding contributions to the nation's manufacturing sector. Deb, would you please stand for a moment? Deb, thank you for supplying great equipment to our farmers and thanks especially for providing all of those good jobs.
These job-creating businesses are the reason North Dakota is number one in so many measures of economic progress. We owe a word of thanks to those who take risks, create jobs, and retain their employees through thick and thin. Their commitment is the reason North Dakota is credited by MoneyRates.com with being, quote, "the best place in America for young people," and a national ranking that I especially enjoy from 24/7 Wall St. which found that North Dakota is quote, "the best-run state in America."
As your newly elected Governor, I would like to now talk about where we are going next. With the blessings of rapid economic growth come many challenges - challenges from growth that far exceed what any city or county would normally encounter. As a state we must continue to meet these challenges head-on. Dealing with these challenges effectively and efficiently must be an integral part of our vision for the future of North Dakota.
In the area of law enforcement we have moved 13 additional state troopers to oil country in the current biennium. But we need to do more to support the county sheriffs, the police chiefs, and the state's attorneys in rapid growth areas. That is why I have recommended 15 additional troopers for the North Dakota Highway Patrol, and I've supported increased budgets for the courts and the parole and probation programs. But the greatest assistance we can provide to counties and cities in western North Dakota is to let them keep a larger share of the oil revenues and help them financially as they increase the number of sheriff's deputies and police officers in their communities. Having strong local law enforcement is what will give people peace of mind, and insure that we remain one of the safest states in the nation.
Enforcing our health and environmental rules is another important element in public safety. We must once again increase our efforts in the monitoring of our water supplies and waste water treatment by insuring that we have adequate staffing in our state Health Department. The pace of activity in the oil field has increased this demand significantly. It also calls for strong enforcement by our Oil and Gas Division personnel for compliance with our state's laws and rules regarding oil drilling. These initiatives should not be viewed as simply growth in state government, but rather a necessary response to the increased activity, especially in western North Dakota.
Another great challenge facing our state is the supply of housing. At the Governor's Housing Summit we presented the findings of our statewide housing survey. Recent data shows that more than 16,000 housing units have been built or started in just the last two years. That is an impressive amount of new housing, but the demand for all types of housing in some communities is rising faster than builders can complete their projects. Every month more builders and contractors are registering their businesses in North Dakota with the Secretary of State. We will catch up to the demand before long, but for the moment many employers, including the state itself, are having to use their best ingenuity to find housing for their employees.
We are currently providing a strong incentive for builders through the Bank of North Dakota's FlexPace program, providing loans to contractors and developers to build mainstream housing with interest rates as low as one percent. Builders are responding vigorously to this incentive, and therefore we have recommended in our budget that we quadruple the amount of money available through FlexPace.
More housing is on its way, but high rents have caused the greatest challenge for people in the low to moderate income category. To meet this challenge we are currently making direct investments in low income housing through our new Housing Incentive Fund administered by our own Housing Finance Agency. These housing projects are popping up throughout North Dakota and have rents that are capped by long-term agreements with the developers. Single bedroom units have become available in the $300-$400 range.
Two years ago we challenged the taxpayers of North Dakota to invest $15 million in our Housing Incentive Fund in exchange for state income tax credits. Today I am pleased to report that we have received the maximum allowable investment of $15 million in our Housing Incentive Fund. This will result in the construction in this biennium of 739 housing units valued at $104 million. These projects will greatly benefit 16 communities across the state. Despite this good progress, the need for affordable housing is so great that we recommend increasing the Housing Incentive Fund in the coming two years to $50 million.
There is one organization that has been the clear leader in coordinating low income housing projects in which our fund can invest. Lutheran Social Services deserves our full gratitude for putting together projects across the state that make a real difference in people's lives. With us today are Robert Sanderson, CEO of Lutheran Social Services, and Jessica Thomasson, Director of Housing. As you have said, housing is much more than just walls and ceilings. It's key to community stability and our quality of life. Bob and Jessica, please stand and be recognized. Thank you, Bob and Jessica, and you can get ready for more projects.
Another challenge created by rapid growth is the maintenance and improvement of our roads and highways. These one-time infrastructure investments are the best use of our reserve funds because they will pay back to all of us for decades to come. Being able to move our products, people and services from place to place is at the very core of a thriving economy. But it's not just about industry and commercial development. Providing a safe and convenient road system to every corner of the state is a basic necessity for people living in a rural state.
To put our commitment in perspective, we increased the Department of Transportation budget by more than $500 million in the current biennium for critical road and highway improvements. For the 2013-2015 biennium we need another increase of more than $1 billion for state highways, county road systems, township roads, bridges, interchanges, and other North Dakota, infrastructure improvements across the state. This funding increase would bring the Department of Transportation's total budget to $2.7 billion. The level of activity in our state demands that we keep up with these long-term investments.
We have made huge investments to address those and other challenges like emergency services, municipal services, and infrastructure for rapid housing development. Some will ask if we are letting spending get out of control. I believe many people have been watching our national budget crisis with great concern, and they naturally are worried that the same situation could develop at the state level. It has not and it will not happen in North Dakota because we are committed to a structural balance in our state budget, where ongoing spending for established programs never exceeds the ongoing revenues available for spending. Surplus funds have accumulated because our receipts have far exceeded our original forecasts, but we must resist the temptation to incorporate these funds into our baseline spending for ongoing programs. There are higher risks associated with any economy that is heavily dependent on the value of raw commodities and those risks must be carefully considered. In the end I expect the Legislative Assembly will find that we can fund all of our priorities, build substantial financial reserves, and lower taxes as well.
I know there will be a great deal of discussion in this legislative session about how much we invest in each area of our priorities. But it's safe to say everyone's priority list will include education. Educating and training our citizens is the key to lasting prosperity.
We have a great opportunity during this legislative session to build on our accomplishments in reforming the way we fund K-12 education. In 2007, we laid to rest the issue of equity in school funding and in 2009 and 2011 we addressed the issue of funding adequacy by increasing the state's funding commitment to the long-sought goal of 70 percent of total costs.
Now, we can achieve a fully integrated formula for K-12 funding. This formula will continue the strong financial commitment to educating each North Dakota student regardless of where they live or how property poor their school district happens to be. This funding model is sustainable far into the future, and insures that there is sufficient funding for every student in the state. But any school district that decides they need to levy more mills, for any reason, will be able as always to ask their electors for more authority. A vote of the people is always the final word.
Perhaps the best feature of this integrated formula is that it ends the excessive dependence on local property tax which has become a heavy burden on our people.
When we began our tax relief effort in 2007, the average statewide education mill levy was 190 mills. Under the proposed plan for permanent property tax reform, the average mill levy will be approximately 60 mills. That reduction in taxation will result in savings to our tax payers next biennium of about $800 million.
We should be proud of our school systems which still produce a number one ranking for eighth grade math and science scores and a high school graduation rate that is ranked second in the nation. We have thousands of dedicated teachers and school administrators who work hard to help our children develop into well-rounded, productive people. Their dedication has brought our state to where it is today.
For nearly 38 years, Wayne Sanstead has been a shining example of individuals who believe that education is the key to the success of our society. Wayne, thank you for your long and outstanding record of public service. Please stand and be recognized. Thank you, Wayne. We wish you and Mary Jane the very best in your retirement.
Our strong revenues also give us the opportunity to invest in our higher education system and to make post-secondary education more affordable. We have one of the most highly regarded systems of colleges and universities in the nation, but our progress has been overshadowed by concerns and mistrust about funding transparency and fairness.
A group of campus business managers and vice presidents of finance have developed a new model for distributing state funds to our eleven campuses. The new model funds campuses based on per-student credit hours completed. Credit hours are adjusted to reflect the added costs of certain programs and the added costs of advanced levels of study. It pays only for courses completed, and not for initial class enrollments.
Because the proposed formula is based on the actual costs of education, because it is more easily understood, and because it is more transparent, we recommend funding higher education based on this improved funding method. It will increase the credibility of our system, and lead to better support from everyone.
Student debt is also a growing concern, and we encourage the legislature to increase both the state's merit-based and needs-based scholarship programs.
We also need to insure the long-term opportunities of our college students by investing $150 million in one-time capital improvement projects throughout the university system.
Our college graduates have more opportunities in North Dakota than ever before. A study completed by Forbes this year ranks North Dakota third among all states for business and career opportunities. Our campuses are a great treasure to our state and are the key to helping our children seize the great opportunities that lie before them.
Water Management
We cannot talk about the future of our state without talking about the management of our water resources. Flood control became foremost in our minds in 2011, and flood recovery took over in 2012. The state has provided hundreds of millions of dollars for home acquisitions, flood impact grants, and to fund loan programs. We built in record time a second water outlet from East Devils Lake which contributed greatly to lowering the lake three feet this year. The Fargo area, as well as Valley City and Lisbon, have made good progress acquiring homes and building flood protection for their cities. But the job of flood recovery is not done. We must stand by Ward County and the City of Minot as they finalize their plans for permanent flood protection.
Along with flood protection projects the state remains committed to providing communities with quality water supplies. Once again we need to make major investments in the Western Area Water Supply, NAWS, and the Southwest Pipeline Project as well as water supply systems in the Red River Valley. We should support the concensus plan of the Water Coalition, trust the experience and integrity of our State Water Commission, and invest the $515 million we will have available in the Resources Trust Fund. The great news for our state is that it appears that oil and gas tax revenues will make possible significant investments in water projects for years to come - investments that create jobs and improve our quality of life.
As we plan for continued flood recovery and protection, it is important that we recognize a group of individuals that has been an integral force in the state's flood fighting efforts – the men and women of the North Dakota National Guard. They are a treasure to our state, not only for their willingness to serve here at home, but for their willingness to serve overseas in the defense of our homeland and our way of life.
Since September 11, 2001, more than 6,000 North Dakota Guardsmen have deployed to foreign lands in support of the Global War on Terrorism. All gave some, and sadly, some gave all – heroes who courageously laid down their lives for a greater cause. Recently, we were again reminded of the extraordinary cost of freedom when two members of our North Dakota Guard were killed in Afghanistan. We will never forget Sergeant First Class Darren Linde and Specialist Tyler Orgaard for their valiant service and ultimate sacrifice.
With all of the achievements and opportunities we celebrate today, we must pause to remember those who made it possible and those who sacrificed all. A memorial of North Dakota's service members who have died since 9/11 is currently in Memorial Hall. I encourage you to visit this display called "Remembering Our Fallen" and take a few moments to honor our fallen heroes.
As we remember and honor them, we also remember and honor their families who have borne such a significant loss. They, too, have sacrificed and paid an extraordinary price in the name of freedom. Today, we are honored to have with us Adrienne Linde, wife of Sgt. 1st Class Linde and Josie Orgaard, mother of Specialist Orgaard. They are here to honor the lives and legacies of their loved ones and to represent all of the families of North Dakota's fallen heroes. Please join me as we honor them for their service and ultimate sacrifice.
Health And Human Services
Taking care of all our people is a fundamental responsibility we all share. The state must make up $93 million this biennium in reduced federal funding for Medicaid reimbursements. We must make up the loss with state funds because cutting benefits to those in need of healthcare is not an option.
At the same time, we need to support nursing homes, health care providers, and providers serving people with developmental disabilities and mental illness. Their costs of staffing and other expenses have gone up and it is very difficult for them to break even. We also must support our rural health clinics, our critical access hospitals and enhanced programs that care for our senior citizens in their homes. Taking care of our own is what we do in North Dakota.
2020 & Beyond
Our great economic progress has given us an opportunity that is rarely available to any state, and that is the opportunity to literally create our own future. A year ago we set out on a state visioning process called 2020 and Beyond. We partnered with the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce and held meetings throughout the state to hear people's own ideas about how to create a better future for our state.
First and foremost, we heard about the great need for more and better child care services throughout the state. This has become a challenge for young parents who would like to contribute more to our workforce. We are already supporting the training of child care providers, but the real challenge is expansion of child care capacity with more facilities. Most child care providers in North Dakota are home-based and have found commercial rental rates to be cost prohibitive. We have tested a cost-share program to provide permanent modular facilities capable of handling 18 children in a custom designed layout. It looks promising and led to our recommendation for a grant program that will help private child care providers get into expanded facilities with very little cost for space.
We also learned that many people would like to see enhanced amenities on their main streets or in their downtown areas. More and better restaurants, theaters, and fitness facilities were a common message. Building on the success of our Renaissance Zone program we have recommended that the Commerce Department promote the availability of planning services to towns and small cities that have not had much experience dealing with growth and expansion.
We also heard that people in North Dakota are looking for more diversity in their career opportunities. This led us to recommend a new streamlined approach to the concept of public-private joint ventures that are based on ideas coming out of our research universities. We propose calling it Research ND, leveraging our universities to partner in ventures that create interesting, high-paying jobs.
Thank you to the state chamber committee members, state legislators, and people who provided input for their great help in this important visioning process.
Our future quality of life in North Dakota must include the preservation and enhancement of our great outdoors. People want more access to hiking, hunting, fishing, camping, and other outdoor recreation. We agree that our quality of life should not be compromised because of our rapid growth. As a result we have proposed committing a portion of the funds generated by oil production taxes to a newly created conservation fund. An advisory committee made up of a diverse group of stakeholders would guide a grant program under the direction of the Industrial Commission. Grants would be awarded to benefit statewide conservation practices, wildlife habitat, parks, and outdoor recreation-all pieces of conservation, which is a core element in our North Dakota quality of life.
In my "State of the State" address today I have talked about our remarkable progress over the last 12 years, and about the challenges of growth that we must meet, and about the vision that our people have for our future. Throughout this discussion it should be clear that we have a very special opportunity now to create an incredibly bright future for all of us - a future that is safe, secure, and includes a quality of life that is unsurpassed anywhere in the world. As legislators you will be an important part of bringing about this bright future. As you undertake the important work of the session, I pledge to do all I can to make your efforts successful. Let's create our future together.
Thank you, and God bless the great state of North Dakota.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's trailblazing electric car company Better Place announced Sunday that it is shutting down, less than six years after unveiling an ambitious plan that promised to revolutionize the auto industry by reducing the world's dependency on oil.
Better Place was perhaps Israel's best known clean-tech company and a leading symbol of its "startup" nation status. Israel, along with Denmark, was the company's test market for developing nationwide networks of charging and battery-swapping stations that it hoped would eventually spread globally. But the company experienced repeated delays in getting off the ground and experienced weak demand for its cars after burning through millions of dollars.
The announcement that the company was filing for liquidation comes less than eight months after company founder Shai Agassi was forced out. The project won the support of Israeli President Shimon Peres, received generous financial incentives from the Israeli government and made Agassi a dynamic celebrity CEO.
The company's vision of drastically reducing oil dependence, cutting carbon emissions and blazing a trail for more environmentally friendly means of transportation won it worldwide praise and high-profile endorsements from people such as former President Bill Clinton. But it also faced skepticism from industry insiders who warned of technical pitfalls, such as limited battery range.
In a written statement, the company's Board of Directors said the venture's intentions were still valid but the execution had faults along the way.
"This is a very sad day for all of us. We stand by the original vision as formulated by Shai Agassi of creating a green alternative that would lessen our dependence on highly polluting transportation technologies," the company said. "Unfortunately, the path to realizing that vision was difficult, complex and littered with obstacles, not all of which we were able to overcome."
When reached by The Associated Press, Agassi refused comment Sunday.
Better Place raised some $850 million from investors like General Electric Co. and HSBC Holdings PLC and the European Investment Bank. Israel Corp., controlled by billionaire Idan Ofer, was the largest shareholder in the venture.
In Israel and Denmark, the networks are almost complete, while the company also has operations in Australia, the Netherlands, China, Hawaii and Japan.
Israel was a particularly ideal laboratory, thanks to high fuel prices, a supportive government and its dense population centers. In Israel, 90 percent of car owners drive less than 45 miles, or about 70 kilometers, per day and all major urban centers are less than 100 miles apart, making the use of battery operated cars more feasible than in countries with longer average commutes.
For people making longer trips, the country was dotted with several dozen mechanized battery-swapping stations, where a new battery could be placed in the vehicle in just a few minutes. Green cars were also particularly attractive to Israel, which hopes to weaken the political clout of its oil-rich enemies.
But fewer than 1,000 cars made it on to the road and the company's distinctive charging stations remained largely empty. French automaker Renault has sold a sedan, the Fluence, which was customized to use the stations and was priced in Israel at roughly $32,000, on par with other sedans.
In its motion to court Sunday, Better Place said it was seeking the appointment of a temporary liquidator. In light of its failure to raise additional funds, the company asked for the court's assistance in protecting the rights of its employees, customers and creditors.
"From the start, Better Place was a breakthrough for the infrastructure of the electric car industry and successfully completed the development of its technology and infrastructure. Israel was the first place in which an electrical car could travel without limit," said CEO Dan Cohen. "Unfortunately, after a year's commercial operation, it was clear to us that despite many satisfied customers, the wider public take up would not be sufficient and that the support from the car producers was not forthcoming."
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ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia took steps this week to create a public-backed venture fund aimed at keeping startup companies from fleeing the state when funding dries up.
The fund could eventually pump $100 million into innovative new companies, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported (http://bit.ly/a1eK ).
Gov. Nathan Deal's recent decision to sign House Bill 318 forges a new, riskier, path for state funding of private companies.
There's no initial funding in the budget for the program, but it creates a blueprint for state investment that supporters hope could keep Georgia entrepreneurs from leaving the state.
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Cagle and his allies must push lawmakers to include funding for the program in future years. But opponents say the government should not support private businesses with such a fund.
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The measure was part of broader legislation that also allows developers of tourism projects to receive hefty sales tax breaks if they cost at least $1 million, attract at least 25 percent of out-of-state visitors by their third year and don't compete directly with existing Georgia businesses. State economic officials must also sign off on each of those projects.
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Ol' Mark Pincus Had a Farm…
Zynga—the company behind such Facebook games as FarmVille, CityVille, and Zynga Poker—is the hottest topic in Silicon Valley: valued at $10 billion, with 250 million users and a rumored I.P.O. next year. Its C.E.O., Mark Pincus, takes fun very, very seriously.
This year, Mark Pincus, the founder and C.E.O. of Zynga—the company that created the silly Facebook games FarmVille, CityVille, and Zynga Poker, the most popular online poker game in the world—had plans to spend the whole month of March at his ranch outside of Aspen. Pincus, who is himself, along with his company, devoted to the concept of "play" in theory, practice, and also as an extraordinarily lucrative business model, was determined to have fun. "Aspen is just dialed in as a sports town," he says. "You have skiing, hiking, road-biking, mountain-biking, golf, tennis … " A slight five feet six, with large liquid brown eyes, Pincus looks down for a moment and purses his lips. "I have to say, though, I hate tennis here. The ball goes faster because of the altitude. It's harder to win points."
The genesis of Christopher Poole's 4chan (Vanessa Grigoriadis, April 2011)
"America's Tweethearts" (Vanessa Grigoriadis, February 2010)
George Lucas's video-gaming empire (Frank DiGiacomo, March 2008)
Not surprisingly, the month was whittled down to a week because of professional obligations—after all, Zynga, shockingly enough, has become one of the most buzzed-about companies in Silicon Valley, one that was just valued at $10 billion, with more than 250 million players a month, and is thought to be preparing an I.P.O. for next year. But Pincus was determined to make the most of his brief time off—skiing, hiking, and renting a snowcat for a reunion of his friends from his days at Wharton, some of whom had attended the birthday party he threw here a few weeks ago for 50. "We did a 1960s NASA-themed party," he says. "It was like Wings—everyone was in space-themed costumes." Pincus doesn't think hanging out with a glass of Pinot Grigio with his feet up in front of the fireplace is fun; for him, fun is programmatic, something that should be well planned by an invisible hand—a game. "I even became so obsessed with the perfect wedding that I spent all my time deconstructing other ones," he says, about his marriage to Alison Pincus, the co-founder of the popular home-design "flash sale" site One Kings Lane. "Toasts ruin weddings, so we had those the night before, but we allowed everyone only three minutes. Also, after dinner, we took the seats away—they all had to go on the dance floor."
So, on this Wednesday in the middle of his Aspen week, Pincus has been having fun all morning, slicing down Aspen Mountain before barreling down his driveway for a late lunch. Plus, the most fun thing ever happened today: he became a billionaire, at least on paper. It's an amazing feat for a guy whom, a close associate says, "no one in Silicon Valley wanted to touch in 2007," and whose ideas a big game manufacturer turned down early on, "essentially throwing up all over them." In the Valley, Pincus has been famous for 15 years, but he's always been plotting his big score. "There's an A-list [in Silicon Valley], and then there's everyone else—and I'm not on the A-list," he lamented to The New York Times six years ago, even after his first company, a wonky tech outfit, was sold for $38 million. Anyway, the Forbes list came out this morning, and there it was, finally, for everyone to see—Pincus, worth a billion dollars and counting. He's one of the seven new "Facebook billionaires," a group which includes all those guys from the Social Network movie—Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Sean Parker, libertarian investor Peter Thiel—plus Russian tech investor Yuri Milner.
Pincus's BlackBerry has been pinging on and off throughout the day, with messages from friends and colleagues offering congratulations. "You know, I was hoping not to be on the list," he says later, shaking his head a little. "I'm not looking to be famous for the amount of money I have, and it's kind of socially awkward." But from the glint in his eye, it's clear that he isn't exactly disappointed. After all, it's a win.
In the tech boom's second wave, there are a lot fewer companies than in the first, but vast chasms still exist between their profitability and their valuations. Some are currently throwing off revenue, like the online coupon company Groupon, which is essentially an e-mail-blast machine that promotes deals such as half-price laser hair removal at local spas, but others have smaller earnings than one would expect, like the billion-tweet media darling Twitter. The business-networking site LinkedIn is preparing an I.P.O., as is Facebook, which is on track for $4 billion in advertising revenues this year. That may not sound like a lot for a company that's valued at $50 billion, but whom do you know who isn't on Facebook at this point? They've got close to 600 million members, and their valuation could go over $100 billion. It could be the biggest I.P.O. in history.
Facebook's success, on a business level, owes something to Pincus, although most people don't realize it. The dirty little secret of Facebook is that there isn't really much to do there once you've finished looking at pictures of your friends' babies and your crush, and signed up for a few pages run by political causes. "Is Facebook a success because of Zynga, or is Zynga a success because of Facebook?" asks Michael Pachter, a video-game analyst at Wedbush Securities. "The answer is both. But the truth is that it's a delicate eco-system." Zynga's games are expected to claim at least $850 million in earnings this year. David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect, says, "Zynga could account for as much as 10 percent of Facebook's revenues this year, a lower percentage than last year but still very significant." "We're going to have billions of people on social networks, so if a third of the people on Facebook love games, about a third don't, and a third are indifferent, you're still talking about hundreds and hundreds of millions of people playing Zynga games," says famed venture capitalist John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins, which has invested heavily in Zynga. "These games are not for everyone, it's true, but it's for more of everyone than anything else I know."
Pincus's games work off a few basic principles. They are easier to play than any other games in the history of man, except maybe Tetris. FarmVille, if you haven't experienced it, is a game where you decorate a virtual farm with virtual goods, like rose beds, cows, and stallions. It's less of a "game" than it is organizing a bunch of fake collectible goods on a computer screen, not that different from amassing a bunch of baseball cards. If unbelievably mindless, it's definitely a good alternative to taking a Vicodin to chill out, and also provides a strange sense of achievement. What is amazing is that people (mostly women; 60 percent of the players are female) are willing to assign monetary value to these virtual goods. The other day, I paid two actual dollars for a fake "hot cocoa" shop to put in my fake city on CityVille, another Pincus game. I'm serious. With this miraculous sleight of hand, Pincus has answered a question that has long existed on the Internet: How do you get people to pay for things that are "real" only on a computer? "What Mark has figured out is just amazing," says DreamWorks Animation C.E.O. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who became a member of Zynga's board in April and has said that if he could start his career over "I'd be Mark Pincus."
The other trick of Pincus's games is that you have to come back to them at least every couple days, or you get punished—for example, if you don't come back to harvest your FarmVille crops, they wither, die, and look pretty unpleasant (unless you buy a miraculous digital "unwithering" for about $1). If you don't want to pay, you can sometimes opt to digitally "invite" some of your Facebook friends to play the game. Also, the more money you hand over in a Zynga game, the higher the levels of game play that are unlocked and the better the game becomes—the reverse of a traditional game.
On a recent evening in New York, Zynga threw an event at Deitch Projects, in SoHo, that felt like a party from 1999, with waiters passing out croissants on platters strewn with faux million-dollar bills, and gin drinks from the downtown faux speakeasy Milk & Honey. Photographs of Zynga employees' dogs were wheatpasted to the walls—the company is named after Pincus's beloved late bulldog, and every day is "Bring Your Dog to Work Day"—and some of the top Zynga "gamers" wandered around, showing off their high scores on their iPads. "I just love playing these games, because I love to decorate, and I feel like I'm an interior designer," said a painter from Middlebury, Vermont. "It's really easy. My mom has M.S., and even when she's having a hard day, she can play it."
A Zynga designer in a black leather jacket stood in the center of the room, sketching different houses for CityVille on a computer. "Everything is so tall in a city, and here we need to make it cute," he says, "so I just squish everything down." What did he do before working for Pincus? I ask. "Oh, I was a commercial architect," he says. "A real one."
Buying the Farm
Pincus may have skied this morning, but after a casual lunch of pizza and salad he's ready for more exercise. His two nannies bring out his infant twin daughters, the blonde, blue-eyed Georgia and the darkly gorgeous Carmen, dressed in identical pink outfits, for a walk. "I met my wife, Alison, here in Aspen, but she was living in New York," says Pincus. "The second we met, I said, 'What do you think of the names Carmen and Georgia, because I'm not going to date someone long-distance if you don't like those names.' I know it's a little weird." He looks so happy with his babies, feeding them mush and cooing. "They're more entertaining than anyone I know," he says.
Pincus's place is not the typical Aspen home: it's a humble jumble of buildings in Woody Creek, a town about 10 miles from Aspen whose most famous resident was the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. Pincus (who also owns a house outside San Francisco) wouldn't want a house in the center of Aspen. He is not interested in being part of that scene. There are multi-million-dollar homes here, too, but there's also a trailer park, and everyone calls themselves Woody Creatures. In his driveway, Pincus has about 10 beat-up cars in front of a small woodshop that he's turned into a yoga studio, and an old barn where he used to keep horses, until they became too much work.
We go out the back door and up onto a plateau, with the babies in a two-seat stroller, and Pincus starts telling his story: he grew up in Chicago; his mother is an architect, his father a partner of a mergers-and-acquisitions consulting firm. After graduating from Wharton, in 1988, Mark became an analyst at Lazard Frères, joining the bank's first program for post-college grads. "We slept five hours a night, and the rest was Lazard's time—I don't know if I had a day off in my first six months," he says. After Lazard, Pincus made a brief stop in the Asian markets. "It was so 19th-century," he says. "I showed up in Hong Kong with nothing but a slip of paper on which a Lazard partner had written the name of a guy who could give me entrée to the banking world." Then he enrolled at Harvard Business School. He was the only person in his section to graduate without a job, he says. "Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority."
Pincus was reading right-wing theorist George Gilder's books on the emerging world of technology at the time, and he decided that he wanted to be in media. "I was in banking because it was high-paying, intense, a real meritocracy, and the afterwork part was fun, but I found everything to do with banking so boring," says Pincus. He flew himself to Denver for a 15-minute interview at TCI, the enormous cable company; it turned out that the company's C.E.O., John Malone, was having dinner with Gilder that night, so being familiar with Gilder's theories helped make the interview go well, for once. "TCI had this box where they were throwing every opportunity that wasn't a cable system, and they put me in charge of that box," says Pincus. He wrote the business plans for the Auto Channel and TV Guide Onscreen, and came up with crazy new media-related ideas on his own—the Disaster Channel, with feeds from war-torn areas, like a Chechen helmet cam.
Pincus made another stop, at a venture-capital firm in D.C. in 1994 ("All these preppy U.Va. guys would send me home when I'd refuse to wear a tie or khaki pants, and I'd be like, 'Really?' "), but was soon fired. "At 28, with all my friends at Goldman Sachs or hedge funds, I found myself washed up," he says.
A year later he had a stunning reversal of fortune. With a friend and a "guy who slept on the couch," he created Freeloader, a "push technology" company, which downloaded Web pages for dial-up customers, presenting them at broadband speed—and sold it for $38 million.
It was one of the first big Web-company sales, and Pincus became a pre-Web 1.0 star. Napster's Sean Parker worked for him for a summer. But in the late 90s, with his relentless focus on revenues, Pincus decided to tack differently from the rest of the pack in the tech boom and created Support.com, a "boring" remote-software-support company. (It went public in 2000, netting Pincus $30 million, according to an industry source.) "When I went to make presentations, the V.C.'s were always like, 'Can you make this [presentation] shorter [because] this really exciting company is coming in after you?' " says Pincus. "Finally, we hit an inflection point, and they said, 'This could be a massive company,' and I'm like, 'I've been telling you that,' and they're like, 'You've never run a large company, so we need to replace you.' They went on a witch hunt, having one-on-ones with my team, whispering, 'The board is very concerned about Mark. Do you see problems with him?' " He sighs. "And I had sharp edges, it's true. The V.C.'s would all be on their BlackBerrys, and I'd say, 'Yeah, you're not allowed to come to a board meeting anymore with those.' And I was 32."
But the next half-dozen years would prove far rougher for Pincus. He worked on a series of projects, like Tribe.net, a social network which was ultimately taken over by devotees of Burning Man, the annual festival in the Nevada desert that Pincus regularly attends. "On the Web, whenever you have an open-ended community, it will basically turn into porn, and with Tribe, the hard-core Burning Man crowd uploaded pictures of themselves naked," he says. "My girlfriend at the time was this blonde, preppy, granola Marina Girl, and she was frightened off so fast by hairy, freaky guys who were sending her pictures of their balls."
Even with millions in the bank, a comfortable existence by any account, Pincus believed he was failing as an entrepreneur. He went to motivational coach Tony Robbins's retreats—"It was me and 4,000 out-of-work Realtors"—and began working with another life coach whose clientele includes many Internet entrepreneurs. "I got so into coaching that I used all my spare time to get coached," he says. "I really thought to myself, If I'm going to do anything in this world, I am going to be the best I can be. I have a tennis coach that has taken me as far as my body can go. I hired a private skiing coach during my birthday week. I have a private yoga instructor. I just don't understand why you wouldn't give yourself every advantage."
Pincus began to think about gaming in a different way after being coached. He was always a game player. "Video games and outdoor sports, that was my childhood," he says. His family was so competitive that they would throw out the board to Trivial Pursuit and just ask one another the questions. "My parents were so into Scrabble that they invented new rules because they didn't like the variability in the luck of the draw of the tiles," he says. "They had a rule that you could change the words on the board as long as you didn't take the letters off."
Now he started to think about what would happen in games if you could, essentially, pay for a coach. Why couldn't you gain an advantage in games by paying for it? "I was addicted to this online game, Rise of Nations, where you move your nation through civilizations, to the point that it really hurt a relationship I was in," he says. "These kids online were just destroying me—they were coming in with tanks, and I was throwing spears at their tanks. And I thought to myself, Wow, I would really pay some money to not have it be this way." Most of us would think of this as cheating. "It's breaking the rules of the Western ways of gaming to buy your way ahead, but so what?" he says. He's got a point: why do games have to be fair? After all, in life, everything is easier if you throw money at it. It's all easier then. You knew that already.
Easy Marks
In fact, Zynga games are hard to play without spending money. "In the game community, Zynga games have created quite a controversy," says Eric Zimmerman, a veteran game designer and a professor at N.Y.U.'s Game Center. "Their detractors see them as interactive Muzak, with the trappings of games but not the soul, and at worst deceptive and manipulative, intentionally creating an addictive experience to trick players out of their money and have them buying virtual goods to no good end." He sighs. "But I think that, by virtue of the fact that these games are as enormously popular as they are, there's something there. After all, millions of flies can't be wrong—if they're buzzing around shit, they're getting something from it."
Pincus has stirred up some controversy as well—a video capturing him talking about doing "every horrible thing in the book" to get revenues early on at Zynga has been passed among Web cognoscenti—and his relationship with Facebook, even though Pincus was an early investor in the company, has been strained at times. About a year ago, Facebook restricted how Zynga and other developers could inform non-players of their friends' game usage (Vanessa just found a Reindeer eating from their feed trough!), which limited Zynga's exposure to potential new customers. Then, last May, Mark Zuckerberg insisted that Zynga use its new currency, called "Facebook Credits"—and give them a 30 percent cut of crocuses, cows, etc. Credits are one of the primary ways that Facebook hopes to make money; imagine if Steve Jobs had thought to mint his own currency for his apps.
Pincus, who already felt that he was giving Facebook a lot of money as its primary advertiser (he reportedly spent an estimated $72 million last year), hit the roof and threatened to pull his games. But he knew Facebook held most of the cards—how else would he attract 250 million people to Zynga games? The two Marks sat down and hashed out a plan. "The reason that Facebook and Zynga were able to strike a deal is because Mark and Mark did it one-on-one," says a source close to the companies. This allowed Facebook to show other vendors that Zynga, the big dog, had accepted their terms, and that the rest should follow suit. "Zynga truly has an insurmountable competitive advantage so long as they don't anger Facebook," says Pachter, the video-game analyst. "And I don't think Zuckerberg is going to single them out—he really has a vision that he wants everyone to thrive."
"Mark and I are definitely friends," says Pincus now. "I think it's because of the personal relationship we have that the companies have been able to build so much trust and work together through … lots of tough times."
There it is again, that glint in Pincus's eye. Competitors may be nipping at his heels, and some games are dropping in usage, but for now he's winning. Things couldn't be going better, and he knows it. "I like that I've lowered the bars to fun on the Internet," he says. His bet is that all Web services will eventually look and feel like games. "Users will gravitate to the 'funnest' e-commerce or other sites," he has written. "Game mex [mechanics] will be the most valuable skill in the new economy."
Pincus is crossing a street with his twins now, and he turns around and surveys the landscape of iron-ore cliffs. A neighbor, a fellow Woody Creature, drives by in a Jeep and jumps out to give Pincus a hello. He points at the twins in the stroller. "Hey, where'd you get those two cuties?" he says. "From the farm?"
"No," says Pincus. "These ones are real."
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I still have my old copy of Quotations From Chairman LBJ. The book was inspired by Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung ("the little red book"). Compiled by Jack Shepherd and Christopher Wren and published by Schuster in the annus horribilis of 1968, the book consisted of supposedly laughable quotes uttered by President Johnson. It was popular enough to go through multiple printings. My copy derives from the third printing. Despite its success as a publishing venture I can't find much in the book that in the fullness of time has proved laughable or derisory except the attitude it displays toward Johnson as the left turned on him.
I don't think any Democratic president since Johnson has inspired the same kind of book. The form has been dedicated to documenting the supposed stupidity of Republican presidents such as Ronald Reagan (Reagan Quotes, compiled by Mark Tracy from two books by liberals about Reagan) and George W. Bush (George W. Bushisms, compiled by Jacob Weisberg).
We're well past the time when the form should be resurrected for President Obama. Has any president ever served up anything remotely like the ludicrous celebration of himself that Obama delivered in June 2008 in St. Paul to mark his securing of the Democratic nomination for president from Ms. Hillary? He actually said this: "I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…" Now that is funny.
The past few weeks have by themselves brought us an incomparable set of killer quotes:
"What we're also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy." —Press conference, November 14, 2013.
"I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to. I'm accused of a lot of things. I don't think I'm stupid enough to go around saying this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity a week before the website opens if I thought that it wasn't going to work. Clearly we, and I, did not have enough awareness about the problems with the website." (Ibid.)
Here we could insert Mark Steyn's classic explication of the text:
So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he's not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he's not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they're in for. But he is smart enough to know that he's not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he'd already been informed that it doesn't work. So he's smart enough to know that if he'd known what he didn't know he'd know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing.
And then last week brought us this:
"Obviously my most recent concern has been that my website's not working. We're evaluating why it is exactly that I didn't know soon enough that it wasn't going to work the way it needed to. But my priority now has been to just make sure that it works." — ABC News interview, November 30, 2013.
We'll put that last quote in the chapter headed "Annals of Inquiry," along with quotes related to his discovery of the worldview of Reverend Wright during the 2008 campaign after sitting in the pews of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago for 20 years…quotes such as this one:
"I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." He said Rev. Wright "is like an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with," telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family. — ABC News, March 13, 2008.
UPDATE: I am advised that David Boze has taken an early pass at such a project with The Little Red Book of Obamunism.


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Bernstein Makes Second Team All-Ivy, Voted Player of the Year
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Yale men's golf team finished in second place at the Apr. 26-28 Ivy League Championship, with a tight finish at the Caves Valley Golf Club seeing Princeton claim the title.
Although the Elis led the field in Owings Mills, Md., with a round to go, the Tigers charged through the final round of play Sunday to clinch victory with a final score of +43. Yale was just five strokes behind, in second place at +48, one stroke ahead of third place Penn.
Instrumental in the Bulldogs performance at the Ivy League Championship—and indeed, throughout the season—was junior Sam Bernstein, who carded a +9 for the tournament to finish in sixth place, just six strokes behind the tournament medalist. For that result, Bernstein earned second-team All-Ivy honors.
Separate to the results of the conference championship, the eight Ivy League coaches unanimously voted Bernstein the Ivy League Player of the Year, an award that recognizes his consistent contribution to the Elis throughout the course of the season.
Sunday's finish also highlighted the promise of younger members of the Yale team. Sophomore William Davenport and freshman Joe Willis, appearing in his first Ivy League Championship, both posted a +14 overall to tie for 12th.
The results of the Ivy League Championship mirror the GolfStat ranking of Ancient Eight teams entering the tournament: Princeton was ranked No. 129 in Division I, just ahead of Yale, which sat at No. 130. Penn followed the Tigers and the Bulldogs at No. 169.
The Ivy League Championship wraps up the Bulldogs' season, which included stunning victories at the Sept. 29-30 Macdonald Cup, the Apr. 13-14 Princeton Invitational and the Apr. 20-21 Century Intercollegiate.
"While this was indeed a heart-breaking result for the lads, they held their heads high knowing they had one of the great campaigns in the Yale golf team modern era," said Head Coach Colin Sheehan '97. "In addition to three wins, they recorded a head-to-head record of 36-9 during the fall season and 36-2 during the month of April."
"Yesterday's results cannot dampen their marvelous achievements that date back to mid-September," Sheehan said on Monday.
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Philip Morris Int'l 4Q profit falls 5 percent
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — Philip Morris International Inc. said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit dropped 5 percent as cigarette sales fell in most of its markets despite commanding higher prices.
The seller of Marlboro and other cigarette brands overseas also was hurt by foreign exchange rates for the U.S. dollar, but it adjusted results were in line with Wall Street expectations.
Smokers face tax increases, bans, health concerns and social stigma worldwide, but the effect of those on cigarette demand generally is less stark outside the United States. Philip Morris International has compensated for volume declines by raising prices and cutting costs.
The company earned $1.99 billion, or $1.24 per share, in the period ended Dec. 31, down from $2.1 billion, or $1.25 per share, the year before.
On an adjusted basis, it earned $1.37 per share, beating Wall Street estimates by a penny, according to FactSet.
Excluding excise taxes, revenue fell about 1 percent to $7.8 billion, matching analysts' prediction.
It shares rose $1.67, or about 2 percent, to $78.57 in morning trading.
Cigarette shipments fell about 4 percent to 223.2 billion cigarettes. Total Marlboro volumes fell nearly 1 percent to 74.8 billion cigarettes.
Economic woes in the European Union and increased excise taxes drove shipments down about 5 percent during the quarter. Shipments fell 1.2 percent in the company's region that encompasses Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Shipments grew 4 percent in Latin America and Canada.
In Asia, one of its largest growth areas, the company said that cigarette volume fell more than 9 percent with gains in Indonesia offset by declines in Japan, Korea and the Philippines. Shipments in the Philippines fell 26 percent during the quarter, hurt by a large tax increase last year and a surge in non-taxed cigarettes.
Because it does all its business overseas, the company also has to navigate changes in currency values. A stronger dollar cuts into revenue generated overseas when it's translated back into dollars.
For the full year, the company said its profit fell 2.5 percent to $8.58 billion on revenue of $31.2 billion, excluding excise taxes.
Philip Morris International Inc., based in New York and Switzerland, is the world's second-biggest cigarette seller behind state-controlled China National Tobacco Corp.
Richmond, Virginia-based Altria Group Inc., the owner of Philip Morris USA, spun off Philip Morris International as a separate company in 2008. Altria is the largest U.S. cigarette seller.
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