Sentences with phrase «an early employee»

(Some of his early employees are still with the company today.)

Tech IPOs can turn early employees into millionaires, as Google's early cooks, custodians and others can attest.

Founders and early employees have already cashed out of $ 350 million in equity, the story points out.

Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their shares in the company by selling them to other private investors.

Unfortunately, not every early employee will successfully make the transition to a larger company.

I was an early employee at Facebook and Mint, but left (or was fired) before massive financial gain.

And those early employees got rewarded as their stock turned into cash.

Flying to his remote company locations in his private jet, and surrounded by his early employees who were now worth tens of millions of dollars, the mantra of «you really have to want to work here or you ought to leave» rang hollow for the latest employees.

The PayPal mafia was a group of American business people and investors who were founders or early employees of the e-commerce company PayPal.

But the investment also provides liquidity for early employees, easing tension as the ride - hailing company aims for a 2019 public offering.

Then Cerilli became an early employee at Seamless, a food ordering site created by Jason Finger.

As for Cambridge, its team has roots in the American debt - settlement business that has drawn so much fire — and some of its earliest employees have been linked to companies accused of legal and regulatory violations in the U.S., according to court and corporate documents obtained by Canadian Business.

Mr. Ren once famously said to his early employees, «Make sure to get an apartment on the east side facing the sun, with a balcony.

Like many other early employees at Lyft, I used my personal dropbox to collaborate on files.

The company has enriched its early employees, who have been generous in spreading their wealth.

Meanwhile, as the industry continues to grow, «it can be tough to carve out your own niche,» concedes Soles, an early employee and now part - owner of the now 450 - person company.

A: We've been able to preserve a lot of the early employees from TOMS, and the torch is really carried by them and me.

On Thursday, the company announced it is raising $ 100 million through the sale of common stock, which it will use to repurchase shares from one of its founders and to provide liquidity for early employees.

There was beer in the fridge and a ladder in the kitchen, built by Newell's dad, that led to a roof where early employees would sometimes gather for lunch.

Many of the earliest employees were his former teammates.

The pair came up with an elegant solution to the long hours demanded by starting their company: They cohabitated and then had early employees move in too.

Some of the company's earliest employees worked side - by - side with Marines in Afghanistan.

Schlein was one of Symantec's early employees and invests in security start - ups, and Carter has made building relationships with Silicon Valley a priority of his tenure.

And that's what differentiates founders and early employees.

Kirshner thinks back to 2013, when the company unexpectedly lost an early employee to cancer.

Nvidia's early employees moved into an office in Sunnyvale, Calif., by the Lawrence Expressway.

The more cash on hand, the fewer tough choices (like choosing between cashing out some early employees and, say, building a new Moscow office) Facebook will have to make.

He achieved demigod status among Silicon Valley business leaders, thanks largely to his role at PayPal, where he became the de facto don of the early employee group known as the PayPal mafia.

SAN FRANCISCO — In a start - up's initial public offering, a lot of people can get fabulously rich: the founders, early employees and the venture capitalists who staked the company.

I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup.

Three were held by Kalanick, his cofounder Garrett Camp, and an early employee, Ryan Graves.

Uber's earliest employees who sold are now millionaires, and venture firms could see billions of dollars flow into their bank accounts.

Amy joined Zillow pre-launch in 2005, as one of the company's earliest employees, and previously served as Chief Marketing Officer.

Before becoming an investor, Varun was a early employee and successful product marketing and business development executive at Mint, which started in 2007 in partnership with The Wall Street Journal and is today one of the largest and most respected business news organizations in Asia.

An early - stage company typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Company.

Passionate about the intersection of tech and media, Randi was an early employee at Facebook where she was the creator of Facebook Live, and currently hosts a weekly tech business show called Dot Complicated on SiriusXM.

Prior to joining Social Capital, Ashley held product management leadership roles at DocuSign, Optimizely, and SurveyMonkey, joining each as an early employee and playing an integral role in their respective hyper - growth phases.

You can hear Noah Kagan, one of the early employees at Facebook, tell a story demonstrating Zuckerberg's laser focus on growth.

As the startup grows from a small group of co-founders to the first early employees and beyond, organizational accountability needs to scale as well.

I hope the Founders, investors and early employees go on to mentor and invest in young companies to create many more Canadian successes.

Kelso's idea and Long's legislation directly addressed the key issue of risk of earlier employee share ownership plans in the 1920s where workers bought the stock with their wages and savings.

I worked on business development and marketing as an early employee at Coinbase, where I helped the first brand name merchants accept bitcoin, led the first bitcoin integrations with banks and startups and managed the Coinbase blog and social media.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg taught this lesson immediately to his early employees including Noah Kagan, the company's 30th employee.

More typically, the point of the IPO is to give the early investors in the company — venture capitalists, early employees, and founders — the opportunity to get their hands on cash so they can begin to enjoy the fruits of their work.

The likeliest group of sellers are early employees — assuming they have more than 10,000 shares — many of whom are expected to part with at least some of their positions.

An early - stage company typically sells its units (or grants options over its units) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Company.

When we'd grown enough to bring on as an early employee, Isaac asked me to be the Director of Marketing.

His wife, Jana Messerschmidt, was an early employee at Twitter, and now heads an early - stage venture fund called #Angels.

«We've been approached by big groups of early employees, and I know a lot has been written about loans or hypothetical products to get around its policies,» says one source.

Established to conduct the first large - scale experimental social research project in the United States, Mathematica's commitment to innovation drives us to develop new methods, explore emerging fields, and apply new technologies in ways our early employees could barely have imagined.