Forbes, May 25, 2015 (I)

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Ryan Mac, Heng Shao and Frank Bi, Drone War. At 34, Frank Wang has turned his dream of flying robots into the world’s biggest drone company--and a $4.5 billion fortune. ow, as the market for his devices explodes, his old colleague is trying to take him down.  
www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/201 ... -china-billionaire/
(Frank WANG Tao 汪滔 of DJI 大疆创新)

My comment:
(a) "1-foot-by-1-foot whirlybird * * * [Wang] just shakes it [bad news] off"
(i) whirlybird (n): "HELICOPTER'
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whirlybird
(ii) shake (vt): “to free oneself from <shake a habit> <shake off a cold>”
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shake

(b) Wang "is a sharp-tongued, head-over-heart leader * * * Wang’s less-than-stellar academic performance thwarted his dream of landing at an elite American university. Rejected by his top choices, MIT and Stanford, he ended up at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology * * * [where] Robotics professor Li Zexiang noticed Wang’s group leadership"

Zexiang LI 李澤湘
(www.ece.ust.hk/ece.php/profile/facultydetail/eezxli
(born in Hunan; BS in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University, MA in Mathematics and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Berkeley)
(c) "Also key to DJI’s development was Wang’s best friend from high school, Swift Xie Jia 谢加, who, in 2010, came in to run marketing and act as confidante. The man nicknamed 'fat-headed fish' by Wang sold his apartment to invest in DJI and today holds a 14% stake that’s expected to be worth an estimated $1.4 billion."
(d) Well, I only read half of the article.