Gil Amelio and Rod D. Martin interviewed by Dennis Kneale of MarketsNow on Fox Business, on the emerging biotechnology sector in Atlanta, Georgia. They discuss the advantages in Atlanta, exciting breakthroughs toward a cure for fatty liver disease happening now, and how the best in biotechnology is centering on Atlanta, right now. Gil Amelio is [...]
Rod in the Media
Rod’s interview with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business. Dr. Martin spoke about the North Korean threats against the United States, and what that means for businesses in the target zones. *** Editor’s Note: This interview with Rod D. Martin was recorded on March 29, 2013 in Pensacola, Florida. It aired at 8:00 p.m. on Fox Business.
NFRA President Rod D. Martin’s interview with JD Miniear on the Conservative Commandos Radio Show, March 6, 2013.
Rod Martin, emprendedor y capitalista de riesgo, visitó la Universidad Francisco Marroquín el 28 de enero de 2012. Martin es fundador y presidente de The Vanguard Project, una plataforma de activismo que utiliza tecnología de punta; y fue consejero de Peter Thiel, fundador de PayPal, durante el inicio de esa empresa. Rod Martin vino acompañado [...]
Rod D. Martin, addressing the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, Feb. 22, 2012 at the Georgian Club. The topic: ”Education, entrepreneurship, and how technology is transforming the world by transforming both.” Rod D. Martin is a leading futurist, technology entrepreneur, author and activist from Destin, Florida. He was part of PayPal’s pre-IPO startup team, serving as special [...]
By Catherine Snow | In an era of growing intolerance to Christian beliefs and corporate skittishness to pressure from gay activists, the world’s largest global electronic payments service provider says its clients’ religious freedoms trump homosexual activists’ preferences. AllOut.org — a gay activist petition site — recently targeted PayPal, taking umbrage at the fact that nearly [...]
Rod’s interview with Kimberly Guilfoyle on FoxNews.com Live. Dr. Martin analyzes the current field of Republican candidates for President and what he says might surprise you – there is hope for the GOP! Enjoy! Rod D. Martinis a leading futurist, technology entrepreneur, author and activist from Destin, Florida. He was part of PayPal’s pre-IPO startup [...]
By Monty Warner | In 2006, Democrats rode a wave of discontent with the Iraq War and the Bush administration’s Katrina response to a resounding, power-shifting victory. Republicans were demoralized, disorganized and rudderless, and fundraising for many right-leaning causes plummeted. After four years of Democrat stimulus packages, “green jobs,” nutty cash-for-clunkers proposals, et al, Republicans [...]
By Heyward Smith and Monty Warner | With the 2010 electoral successes of the GOP cemented in a sworn-in House majority, the outlook for conservative and pro-market causes seems bright. However one doesn’t have to look too far back in political history to temper that enthusiasm. Two short years ago, the media was writing conservatism’s [...]
By Chuck Raasch | WASHINGTON — If you’re angry or frustrated at the government, you’re not alone. The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press just reported that 21% of respondents to a March poll said they were mad at their own government. And 56% said they were frustrated. Pew called it the highest [...]
By Tom Hodgkinson | Facebook has 59 million users – and 2 million new ones join each week. But you won’t catch Tom Hodgkinson volunteering his personal information – not now that he knows the politics of the people behind the social networking site I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as [...]
TheVanguard.Org founder Rod Martin’s recent interview with leftwing media site MediaTransparency.org: a surprisingly fair look at the state of the Christian Right and of conservative politics generally. A short excerpt: Some in the media, and on the left, view these fault lines as symbolic of a major meltdown on the right. It has spurred the [...]
In the first of an ongoing series of interviews with World Ahead’s authors and friends, our Founder and Publisher Eric M. Jackson sat down recently with Rod D. Martin, a World Ahead author and former colleague of Jackson’s at PayPal.com. Martin is widely respected as a prescient futurist and as one of the nation’s leading [...]
A very interesting article from the New York Times regarding conservatives’ efforts to find an acceptable Presidential nominee, with a central focus on the Council for National Policy (full disclosure: I’m a member of CNP’s Board of Governors). A most interesting read. Full text below. Original link here. ============ The New York Times February [...]
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Rod Martin is a Reaganite-Thatcherite conservative…[and] a man who has spent much of his life ministering to and working for the benefit of others. I know Rod as an advocate for freedom, a leader who understands the real changes we need in Washington, and who has the drive and ability to make those changes happen.
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A leader and a servant, in public life and in private, Rod Martin strides at the top of his profession, and has nowhere to go but up. He is in the truest sense of the word ‘outstanding’.
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