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Ciro Santilli believes it likely that this is Apolline Verdiell's current usage pseudonym as shown on her LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/appleverdiell/ and department pages: chen.uchicago.edu/apple-verdiell/.
Presumably the choice of "Apple" is because Appolline was too long for the Americans, and "Apple" sounds a bit like "Appolline". Maybe she's also a Steve Jobs fan who knows.
There is no direct evidence that this is actually her, but given the name similarity and that she has links to Atherton, California, it feels very likely.
Wife of Marc Verdiell.
d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/core/core-2019.pdf lists "Marc and Lori Verdiell" as donors to the Computer History Museum, and therefore confirms her identity beyond doubt as his wife as of 2019.
www.whitepages.com/name/Lori-Verdiell gives a possible middle name starting with H giving "Lori H Verdiell". It also lists possible daughters Aurelie T Verdiell and Apolline T Verdiell.
www.linkedin.com/in/lori-verdiell-9373a5128/ is her likely profile where she describes herself as Retired Research Asssociate at PPD, a contract research organization, and as being from Atherton, California.
Ciro Santilli believes that "Lori" is an Western pseudonym of East Asian person and that her real legal name is Hoang Oanh Verdiell.
www.officialusa.com/names/Jean_marc-Verdiell/ lists her email as
verdiell.lori@gmail.com, and phone (650) 493-9259.Marc Verdiell is a human electrical engineer best known for being the creator and host of the CuriousMarc YouTube channel.
Marc made $58.4m from the sale of LightLogic, an optoelectronics company he founded, to Intel in 2001. His associate Frank Shum sued claiming he should be credited for some of the inventions sold but lost and Marc got it all.[ref][ref].
Marc's full name is actualy Jean-Marc Verdiell, but Ciro Santilli remembers there was one YouTube video where he mentions he gave up on "Jean" partly because anglophones would murder its pronounciation all the time.
ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20160274316 also suggests he may have a seldom used middle name "André", though that would be unusual in French custom
Profile of Marc Verdiell by Gizmodo (2018)
Source. youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4?t=74 gives his house's location Atherton, California, part of Silicon Valley. youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4?t=279 shows his amazing garden a bit more.
radaris.com/p/Jean-Marc/Verdiell/ and many other sources list the exact address as 48 Linden Ave, Atherton, CA 94027. maps.app.goo.gl/LM2iN9fz6YBteggp8
www.realtyhop.com/property-records/search/hoang-oanh-verdiell mentions that the property was bought on 2013-11-07 and lists other properties they've bought and sold and possibly inhabited:
- 2002-03-21: sold 4159 El Camino Way, Palo Alto, CA Unit B
- 2001-06-18: bought 763 Florales Dr, Palo Alto, CA
A quick look on Google Maps show that that area is full of some incredible mansions. They managed to keep the entire place green and every house has a pool. Wikipedia comments web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/:and Forbes confirms it for 2022: web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/, by far on top.
Atherton is known for its wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. towns with a population between 2,500 and 9,999, and it is regularly ranked as the most expensive ZIP Code in the United States [(94027)]. The town has very restricting zoning, only permitting one single-family home per acre and no sidewalks. The inhabitants have strongly opposed proposals to permit more housing construction
youtu.be/ZgAreiFXhJk?t=253 lists some famous people who live there. It's like a micro heaven.
And a person who makes open educational content like Marc, truly deserves it.
Soyuz Clock Part 4: How accurate is it? by CuriousMarc (2020)
Source. The timestamp youtu.be/HKsjwT53yXw?t=580 mentions that his wife is called "Lori", and that she escaped the Soviet Union, and two of her brothers went to jail in the escape process.
The name is kind of hard to hear, but Google resolves it for us e.g. she and Marc were donnors to the Computer History Museum d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/core/core-2019.pdf
Marc Verdiell likely has two daughters, the elder Aurelie and the younger Apolline who goes by "Apple Verdiell". Her names are listed at: www.whitepages.com/name/Lori-Verdiell, and the fact that their LinkedIn profiles:
- link them to Atherton, California
- shows them to be white-East asian mixed, consistent with Marc's wife Hoang Oanh Verdiell being vietnamese.
- French given names and claimed fluency