• Valve Founder Gabe Newell Turned 'Half-Life' into a Nearly $10B Fortune https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephenpastis/2024/10/21/how-valve-founder-gabe-newell-built-one-of-the-worlds-most-profitable-videogame-companies/ 3 comments 21/10/2024

• College dropout turns a fellowship into a $2 billion fortune https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/college-dropout-turns-a-fellowship-into-a-2-billion-fortune-11663505684796.html 3 comments 18/9/2022 cryptocurrency
• Analysis: Can Adrian Newey turn Red Bull's fortunes around? https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-can-adrian-newey-turn-red-bull-fortunes-around-909198/ 6 comments 23/5/2017 formula1
• Fortune did not, in fact, favor the brave: Matt Damon’s Crypto.com TV spot turns one https://cointelegraph.com/news/fortune-did-not-in-fact-favor-the-brave-matt-damon-s-crypto-com-tv-spot-turns-one 8 comments 28/10/2022 cryptocurrency
• Pete Buttigieg once boasted he helped McKinsey ‘turn around’ Fortune 500 companies. Not anymore. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-once-boasted-he-helped-mckinsey-turn-around-fortune-500-companies-not-anymore/2019/12/27/032888b4-2347-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html 254 comments 28/12/2019 politics
• Mikel Arteta will face huge task to turn Arsenal's fortunes around https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/11889115/mikel-arteta-will-face-huge-task-to-turn-arsenals-fortunes-around 41 comments 17/12/2019 soccer
• Giuliani associate made millions in Ukraine before his U.S. fortunes turned https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article236340113.html 8 comments 18/10/2019 politics
• Chattanooga, Tennessee turned around its fortunes by building the fastest internet in the United States. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpk77/chattanooga-gigabit-fiber-network 40 comments 4/1/2018 technology
• Had it not been for the First World War, Russia's fortunes might have taken a very different turn http://www.historytoday.com/charles-emmerson/russia-eve-first-world-war 33 comments 20/9/2013 history
• How Carnegie Turned His Fortune Into A Library Legacy : NPR http://www.npr.org/2013/08/01/207272849/how-andrew-carnegie-turned-his-fortune-into-a-library-legacy 22 comments 1/8/2013 books
• HTC CEO Peter Chou willing to step down if company's fortunes don't turn around in 2013 http://www.windowsphonedaily.com/2013/03/htc-ceo-peter-chou-willing-to-step-down.html 9 comments 20/3/2013 windowsphone
• 'He's the right guy' - Rosberg backs Wolff to turn around Mercedes' fortunes https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.hes-the-right-guy-rosberg-backs-wolff-to-turn-around-mercedes-fortunes.4Bh38e5g8Igds49nQbgZUP.html 62 comments 23/4/2022 formula1
• Predicting Trump: Chinese turn to fortune tellers to divine trade war https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-fortunetellers/predicting-trump-chinese-turn-to-fortune-tellers-to-divine-trade-war-iduskcn1lg0kq 9 comments 1/9/2018 worldnews
• Predicting Trump: Chinese turn to fortune tellers to divine trade war https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-fortunetellers/predicting-trump-chinese-turn-to-fortune-tellers-to-divine-trade-war-idUSKCN1LG0KQ 7 comments 31/8/2018 wallstreetbets
• Sam Allardyce claims he turned down Hebei China Fortune before Chris Coleman landed job https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/sam-allardyce-claims-turned-down-12687114 3 comments 14/6/2018 soccer
• Modi has turned India's fortunes, but media won't show it http://www.dailyo.in/politics/narendra-modi-sarkar-degree-row-black-money-development-media-trps-niti-aayog-amitabh-kant/story/1/10619.html 10 comments 14/5/2016 india
• Sheldon Adelson’s Fortune Helped Turn the GOP Into the Party of Israeli Apartheid https://theintercept.com/2021/01/12/sheldon-adelson-trump-israel-republican-party/ 23 comments 12/1/2021 politics
• No break-downs for Honda in testing yet, compared to a lot last year. How did their fortune turn around this instant? https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/818efa/no_breakdowns_for_honda_in_testing_yet_compared/ 51 comments 1/3/2018 formula1
• Pollock to referee 1,500th NHL game after bad luck turned to good fortune https://www.nhl.com/news/kevin-pollock-to-referee-1500th-nhl-game/c-337483692 18 comments 13/11/2022 hockey
• [Kleiman] This got turned into a 70-yard touchdown. Tyreek Hill is a cheat code that no one else in the league is fortunate to have. #Chiefs surly enjoy that advantage. https://twitter.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1485605808578646025?s=21 457 comments 24/1/2022 nfl
• ‘Cane Guy’ from Northbrook works his ‘magic’ to turn around White Sox fortunes against Astros in front of national TV audience. ‘It was uncanny.’ https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-white-sox-magic-cane-guy-20211011-wdq4hmji6rglngydm7f7xftzt4-story.html#icb-path 8 comments 12/10/2021 baseball
• Fortunate weather spared the town of Kokura from the A-bomb, twice. What other historical events have been influenced by (un)lucky turns of weather? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-09/an-atomic-anniversary-in-the-city-the-bomb-spared 15 comments 5/8/2020 history
• Bernie Ecclestone says he does not envy Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene given the challenge he faces in turning the Italian Formula 1 squad's fortunes around. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/126968/ecclestone-doesnt-envy-arrivabene 7 comments 4/11/2016 formula1
• Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain turns down £800,000 a week to play for Hebei China Fortune https://twitter.com/skykaveh/status/753228763702366208 778 comments 13/7/2016 soccer
• [Pelissero] For the 34th consecutive season — every season since 1990 — at least four teams have qualified for the playoffs after failing to make it the year before. With tonight’s win, the Texans join the Lions, Browns and Rams in the playoffs. Fortunes turn quickly in the NFL … https://twitter.com/tompelissero/status/1743865735674208291?s=46&t=U3cMdkI_C5XzlWnRYxxzMw 79 comments 7/1/2024 nfl
• [David 🏒 on X] Jordan Staal sticks his leg out on Vincent Trocheck, but fortunately Trocheck was able to avoid most of it. Could've turned out bad, like the Adam Fox one. https://x.com/daveyupper/status/1720249534733803798?s=46&t=JUXxFJ06WnoFAXUd0J7qmw 14 comments 3/11/2023 hockey
• After Elon Musk, it was the turn of Mark Zuckerberg to fire 11,000 people in the blink of an eye. Billionaire oligarchs are all the same. They can fire thousands as fast as they earn billions in pubic money subsidies and tax-breaks to keep their huge fortunes and power untouched. https://twitter.com/failedevolution/status/1590754070956212226 465 comments 10/11/2022 economy
• [Chris Medland] Huge crash in a support event at COTA as a Porsche with an issue on the main straight turns completely across the track at low speed and wipes out another car that was flat out towards Turn 12. Fortunately both drivers out and OK, but a big mess to clear up https://twitter.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/1583511051055681536?s=19&t=oKUudmXUvftUDekAhNY50A 18 comments 21/10/2022 formula1
• [Motorsport] In the first 8 races of 2022, MercedesAMGF1 have completed all but 1 race lap - 99.89%! Do you think the Ferrari-powered teams will turn their fortunes around in the second half of the season? https://twitter.com/msportstats/status/1537361647035203584?s=19&t=KRZ39VR7HEPJxhkrGTRv4g 18 comments 16/6/2022 formula1
• [Sky Sports] Paul Merson questions the decision-making at #MUFC and ability of Ralf Rangnick to turn around the club's fortunes: "He's never managed one of the top teams in the world, why's that?" https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1464611070715338764 118 comments 27/11/2021 soccer
• Found this old news article about the third Apple co-founder leaving the company - and his hopes that Steve Jobs might be able to turn the company's fortune around. Sept 1st 1997 https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/01/business/an-unknown-co-founder-leaves-after-20-years-of-glory-and-turmoil.html 5 comments 11/3/2020 apple
• Critically endangered kākāpō – the world's fattest parrot – has record breeding season -Just 147 adult kākāpō are alive today in their native New Zealand, but scientists hope their fortunes are turning around https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/17/critically-endangered-kakapo-the-worlds-fattest-parrot-has-record-breeding-season 20 comments 17/4/2019 worldnews
• [Eisen] Sensing some resentment towards Sean McVay because everyone is trying to find their own young innovator to turn around their team/QB fortune like he has. But he’s the last guy to be a look-at-me chest-pounding credit-seeker. Don’t fault him for the copycatters. https://twitter.com/richeisen/status/1082756103480303616 77 comments 8/1/2019 nfl
• Researchers develop wearable robotic skins that can turn all kinds of inanimate objects into robots capable of performing basic tasks. The technology was partly developed for NASA, as the lightweight robots can serve as multi-purpose tools in space, saving a fortune on launching cargo at $10,000/lb. http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/09/creepy-space-robot-skin 20 comments 20/9/2018 space
• World's witnessing a new Gilded Age as billionaires’ wealth swells to $6tn - The world’s super-rich hold the greatest concentration of wealth since the US Gilded Age at the turn of the 20th century, when families like the Carnegies, Rockefellers and Vanderbilts controlled vast fortunes. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/26/worlds-witnessing-a-new-gilded-age-as-billionaires-wealth-swells-to-6tn 10561 comments 27/10/2017 worldnews
• Watford's Ighalo turned down £300,000 per week to move to Hebei China Fortune last year in favour of staying in the Premier League http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2016/02/06/ighalo-rejected-chinese-offer-615000-week 114 comments 6/2/2016 soccer
• NASA's Curiosity rover may contaminate its samples of Mars: Any rock samples the rover drills will be contaminated with bits of Teflon from the rover's machinery, which will turn up as carbon when vaporized; fortunately, NASA has some workarounds http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/06/nasa-rover-will-contaminate-its.html 10 comments 12/6/2012 space
• For investors, playing the game of risk has never been easier --- UBS just launched instruments to let investors turn risk on or off. Is it really that simple? The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/12/21/risk-on-risk-off/?iid=sf_f_river 3 comments 22/12/2011 business
• Wealthy German industrialist’s widow bet family fortune to buy a much bigger company, then went to gov’t for a bailout when the acquired company went broke. Now it turns out her dead husband profited during WWII making upholstery from the hair of Jews gassed at Auschwitz. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1882866,00.html 5 comments 27/3/2009 politics
• Stealth Windows update prevents XP repair:Turns out the "silent install" that Microsoft's been doing recently with Windows Update actually does mess up an important function of Windows XP. Fortunately, there's an easy command to enter to straighten things out. http://windowssecrets.com/2007/09/27/03-stealth-windows-update-prevents-xp-repair 25 comments 27/9/2007 reddit.com