Charlottesville’s Halsey Minor Gets Profiled in Conde Naste’s October 2008 Portfolio Magazine

Posted by Thor on September 19th, 2008 12 Comments

 Halsey Minor Charlottesville

In case you didn’t know any details about Charlottesville native Halsey Minor, the man behind the Landmark Hotel, now you can read a super long feature on his life, his goals, aspirations, etc titled “The Baddest Boy in Silicon Valley.”

Some facts you should tell your non-cVillain friends about Halsey to sound smart:

- Halsey founded CNET and made over $100 million by the time he was 35

- He has thoroughbred horses which cost more than $3 million each and lives in a mansion (duh)

- He made $300 million from SalesForce.com

- He now runs Minor Ventures which invests in early stage companies

- He has a bunch of other things that cost a lot of money, private jets, big houses, etc.

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12 Responses to “Charlottesville’s Halsey Minor Gets Profiled in Conde Naste’s October 2008 Portfolio Magazine”

  1. 19 Sep 2008 at 10:21 am1Craig said:

    For this website, I might delete the last one you’ve got there and replace it with: “He is also sinking more than $30 million into a nine-story, 100-room luxury hotel that is slated to open in downtown Charlottesville in July 2009. He says that he insisted on being the sole investor: ‘I don’t like squabbling.’”

  2. 19 Sep 2008 at 10:22 am2Craig said:

    (I.e., directly tie it to the Landmark…)

  3. 19 Sep 2008 at 11:48 am3Tinkertoy said:

    Is it Porftolio or Portfolio Magazine?

  4. 19 Sep 2008 at 11:50 am4Thor said:

    fixed, thanks TTOY

  5. 19 Sep 2008 at 11:55 am5Tinkertoy said:

    No worries, thought it might be Spanish or some dialect of investor type people.

  6. 23 Sep 2008 at 7:57 pm6philbert said:

    Oooh. I keep watching it get taller and taller. Exciting! I’ll totally hang out there and pretend I’m rich/important.

  7. 27 Sep 2008 at 3:22 pm7Halsey Minor said:

    If you hang out with there you WILL be rich and important at least to us. I have seen the renderings and its going to be beyond spectacular.

    The rooms and common areas were designed by Michael Smith:

    http://www.amazon.com/Michael-S-Smith-Houses/dp/0847830705/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222542891&sr=8-1

    And the restaurants and bars by be Core Design:

    http://www.amazon.com/Michael-S-Smith-Houses/dp/0847830705/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222542891&sr=8-1

    Both of them are at the very top of their fields today.

    I look forward to seeing you there.

  8. 27 Sep 2008 at 3:32 pm8Thor said:

    Dude, Halsey.. hello!

  9. 30 Sep 2008 at 8:47 am9cVillain » Blog Archive » Halsey Minor Not Runing for Governor said:

    […] I have a question for Halsey. Out of jealousy for Waldo’s free drink, if we put up a big post about the hotel and how awesome it is, will you buy all the cVillain’s their first drink at the hotel!? You did say you would make us feel rich and famous. […]

  10. 30 Sep 2008 at 11:43 am10Halsey Minor said:

    If its big enough and truly shows how great the hotel is you all get drinks and i’ll serve you personally just so you know you everyone is rich and famous at Minor Family Hotels :-) *

    *note this does not include pets or significant others. Drinkers must be 21 and be able to hold their liquor.

  11. 30 Sep 2008 at 11:56 am11duckduckgoose said:

    this does not include pets

    welp, I’m out.

  12. 30 Sep 2008 at 11:59 am12parlie said:

    my dog’s girlfriend just asked if she can bring her kids. this bitch is unbelievable.

    sorry, halsey.

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