Sentences with phrase «ceo has other ideas»

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In keeping with the idea that every company is a tech company, we'll have plenty of speakers representing other industries, including General Motors President Dan Ammann, who is trying to keep his company relevant in an era of ride sharing and self - driving cars; Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, which owns oil pipelines, a lumber business, and a fertilizer producer; and Toys R Us CEO Dave Brandon, who must grapple with the shift by customers to buy online.

Mustich says the company had the idea when he and B&N CEO William Lynch were in an elevator together and Lynch mentioned that he'd liked Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and wanted to read other books like it.