They each made millions because they became famous for failing to do their jobs.
For instance, Michael Moritz, the venture capitalist who became famous for spotting both Yahoo!
The Chechens became famous for their warrior prowess, the Dagestanis for their Koranic learning.
He became famous for his personal, conversational writing style, his offbeat anecdotes and several timely investment forecasts.
The team includes Italian obstetrician Severino Antinori, who became famous for helping a 62-year-old woman give birth.
By applying many thin coats of this adapted glaze, he achieved the smoky shadowing he became famous for.
She became famous for her ability to wring tears and truth out of celebrities and statesmen in her specials.
Notting Hill became famous for its carnival, a weekend-long pageant of Afro-Caribbean culture.
YouTube, the original video-sharing website, became famous for water-skiing squirrels and bedroom musings.
Lowe became famous for his panache and outspokenness in the 1970s, when he was the managing director of Collett Dickenson Pearce.
Banksy, whose true identity has never officially been revealed, became famous for creating politicised stencils on the walls of public buildings.
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It became famous for Mr Bush starting the exchange with "Yo, Blair".
Mrs Davis said the baths became famous for their medicinal purposes and people used to travel from all over the UK to use them.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became famous for the lengths to which he was willing to go to weaken his national currency, the yen.
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Throughout the 1970s he became famous for adopting a number of different characters and personae, from glam-rock king Ziggy to the so-called Thin White Duke.
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Though Mr. Chaudhry became famous for his resistance against Mr. Musharraf, he was one of the judges who sanctioned the military coup that brought then-Gen.
Judah Folkman, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, became famous for using a similar idea to cure cancer in mice, but progress in human beings was slow.
Krissada turned to Bill Bensley, a Bangkok-based American who became famous for designing plush resort landscaping in Thailand and Bali before moving to the front ranks of five-star-hotel architects.
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By the early 20th century Syracuse became famous for production of Smith Corona typewriters, Syracuse China, Nettleton shoes, bicycles, wax candles and the Franklin, an ahead-of-its-time automobile with an air-cooled engine.
Nimetz became famous for his response to this crisis.
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The idea for 100Reporters was conceived in 2010, the same year WikiLeaks became internationally famous for leaking the Afghan War Log and the Iraq War Diary, and the Arab Spring began to take root.
The standout beauty of her era, Elizabeth Taylor became as famous for her string of failed marriages as for her amazing track record in film, and later, became a noted philanthropist and charity superstar.
Guccio and his descendants became world famous for the bamboo-handled handbag sported by the likes of Jackie Onassis and the trademark loafers worn by Frank Sinatra's set.
The centre became famous in 1996 for creating Dolly the sheep - the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.
He became famous in China for publishing an investigation into the death, in 2003, of Sun Zhigang, a young graphic designer who died in police custody after a beating.
In 1975, he teamed up with Gene Siskel, of rival newspaper Chicago Tribune, to launch their movie show, which became famous throughout America for its "thumbs down" and "thumbs up" system of reviewing.
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When it opened in 1981, the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek became instantly famous locally for its Italian Renaissance design, for its blushing countenance--peach dominated the exterior and interior walls, flooring, and even the furniture--and for its put-Dallas-on-the-map restaurant then run by celebrity chef Dean Fearing.
It was written by a Chemist who became famous in the 1980 for a book that denounced industry malpractice.
While at Pennsylvania he became involved in the research for which he subsequently became world famous.
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