Sentences with phrase «after company founder»

Bose first introduced the original QuietComfort noise cancelling headphones back in 2000, apparently 22 years after company founder Amar G. Bose began his noise cancelation research, the company said.

Yale is diving into the connected lock space, and it's so confident in its new smart security gadget it's named it after the company founder.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Facebook users have to be wondering if they can ever trust the social network to protect their data after company founder Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that it failed correct a breach it had known about since 2015.

Named after company founder Enzo Ferrari, the supercar houses a 6.0 - liter V12 engine that produces 660 - hp.

Not exact matches

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

After Hogan launched his lawsuit against the company, it was revealed that PayPal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel had been bankrolling the former wrestler and others who were suing Gawker, in the hope of driving the company out of business.

Rob Ferguson has resigned as chairman of litigation funder IMF Bentham after failing in a push for the company's three executive directors, including founder Hugh McLernon, to retire from the board.

The filing comes almost two years after the company ousted founder Dov Charney, who is locked in a legal fight and sued American Apparel for defamation.

The announcement comes the day after Lending Club's founder and chief executive Renaud LaPlanche was forced to step down by his own board, following alleged improprieties around some of his company's marketplace loans to businesses and individuals.

U.S. federal health regulators have proposed banning Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes from the blood - testing business for at least two years after determining that the company failed to fix deficiencies at its California laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Each new hire will get to meet every one of the company's three partners, says founder Pushkar Kumar, whose company, after piloting in India, is planning to incorporate in the U.S. in the next 10 to 12 months.

Suggestions so far include Tesla (Elon Musk was an early investor, not the founder), Zenefits (after the David Sacks clean - up, Jay Fulcher has continued on the road stability), Lending Club (the company's stock isn't doing much, but it managed to survive its governance scandal), and Etsy (despite its current activist investor trouble, the company thrived and went public under replacement Chad Dickerson).

Even after Thursday's rally, Norwegian's founder and top owner, CEO Kjos who controls a quarter of the company's shares, is expected to demand a significantly higher price before selling, said Korsvold.

Shortly after setting up the company, the founders moved SoundCloud to Berlin, which was developing a reputation as one of the most startup - friendly cities in Europe at the time, partly due to its cheap accommodation and its abundance of talented programmers.

«We are really happy with the results of the first quarter,» Steven Boal, founder and chief executive of Coupons.com, said, in a conversation after the company's first earnings call earlier this month.

The companies that make those beers, Boston Beer (sam) and Molson Coors (tap - a) respectively, have found themselves in a war of words after The New York Times published an op - ed by Boston Beer founder Jim Koch in which the brewer lamented the effect Big Beer mergers have had on the craft beer industry.

The company announced last week that founder Sean Rad would be retaking the top job, only five months after handing control to former eBay and Microsoft executive Chris Payne.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

Perhaps the trouble began in 1984, when founder Jack Tramiel left the company after 25 years.

Founder Matt Lincecum is a former attorney who started the company after 15 years of home brewing, during which time he worked meticulously to perfect his recipe for Universal Pale Ale.

The number of new shares to be given to the investors is simple math: If they're to have 60 percent of the company after investing and founders have 1 million shares, then issuing 1.5 million shares for the new investors makes the math work.

After all, it's usually the Founder who took the company from nothing more than an idea with a few thousand dollars in cash to where it is today.

After revenues surpassed $ 100 million, the company was sold to British Telecom in 1985, and its founders turned their attention to other ventures, including Corel Systems and Newbridge Networks.

Founder Maran Nelson came up with the idea after working with a company that makes and sells backpacks.

The New York City - based diversified holding company named after its founder, the activist investor Carl Icahn.

The Founders 10 have been chosen from among North America - based, founder - led companies that went public after January 1, 2014, according to IPOScoop, and had the most patent activity (including grants and applications) in 2016, according to IFI Claims Patent Services.

James Murdoch, the son of 21st Century Fox founder Rupert Murdoch and now the company's CEO, has been floated as a potential successor to Iger at Disney after the acquisition.

Phillip Nappi, founder of Peter Nappi Nappi was inspired to create Peter Nappi, a luxury Italian footwear company based in Nashville, Tenn., after discovering that his grandfather (for whom the company is named) shared the same passion for leather craftsmanship.

Gabe Lozano, founder of social network LockerDome told CBS St. Louis that a prospective employee turned down an offer from Lozano's company after finding out ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft didn't operate in the city.

There's a couple reasons for this: after massive sleep deprivation and zero separation between work and personal life, taking a step back often reminds a founder of the things that they want in their personal life and gives motivation to the work life and while in a lull this can upset investors or look like avoidance, its in almost every case helped the company and lets be honest, if a company is going to die it isn't going to die in one week but be surprised at how much sleep a founder might need and you probably wouldn't want many friends around.

Founder Ade Hassan started the company after being frustrated that she couldn't find nude hosiery that matched her skin tone.

Last year, tech company RadiumOne fired its CEO and founder, Gurbaksh Chahal, after he pled guilty to assault.

For instance, in Indianapolis, another Amazon HQ2 contender, Scott Dorsey and Chris Baggott, founders of ExactTarget, a company bought by Salesforce for $ 2.5 billion in 2013, did not retire from the community after the exit.

A day after San Francisco voters rejected a proposition that would have restricted short - term rentals, Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky described how the company is changing its tactics amid regulatory battles across the world.

American Apparel founder Dov Charney, who left after a string of sexual harassment allegations from his own employees, had a strange response when asked if he was having sex with workers at his new clothing company, Los Angeles Apparel.

The above logo didn't appear until 1984, after Michael Eisner took over as CEO of The Walt Disney Company and helped revitalize the studio that was struggling in the years after the death of its founder.

Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he'd tried to go behind their backs to arrange the deal without including them (not great diplomacy, because he was working for the co-founders at the time, as chief executive of video company Joost).

After laying the groundwork for their company, the founders moved to the Bay Area from Toronto in 2010 to join Y Combinator, a business incubator.

«The story was glorious when they had lots of money in the bank, but they went madly after customer growth and spent it quickly,» says Anil Joshi, an investor and founder of Unicorn India Ventures in Mumbai, who didn't invest in food delivery companies.

Bezos's proposal comes just after Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, announced this week that the company has plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon by 2018.

After meeting with the president - elect this week, Jack Ma, founder and CEO of Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba, said he was committed to adding 1 million U.S. companies to his hugely popular online shopping platform.

(Reuters)- U.S. federal health regulators have proposed banning Theranos Inc founder Elizabeth Holmes from the blood - testing business for at least two years after determining that the company failed to fix deficiencies at its California laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

After spending almost 18 months following the company and developing a deep relationship with founders Nick Romito, Ryan Masiello and Karl Baum, Trinity Ventures was the first institutional investor in the company, leading the Series A funding round in 2013.

With respect to Thiel's other companies, I have found 14 Review alumni who have worked for Thiel Capital Management and Clarium Capital Management, including several vice presidents; five who have worked for Founders Fund, including a cofounder, Howery; two at Valar Ventures; and three more who worked at PayPal who joined after the first few years.

«Anytime you make something simpler and lower friction, you get more of it,» Jeffrey P. Bezos, the company's chief executive and founder, wrote in a letter to shareholders in 2007, after the company made getting a book nearly instantaneous with the original Kindle.

In response to the outrage over what appears to be blatant price gouging on the part of Turing Pharmaceuticals, the company's founder and CEO Martin Shkreli has announced that Turing will be lowering the price of the drug Daraprim after raising it from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight.

The installations and development comes in the wake of SolarCity founder and longtime solar developer Peter Rive left the company in July, departing eight months after the company was purchased by Tesla for $ 2.6 billion.

He held the role for 23 years after the death of his father and company founder, Sam Walton, in 1992.

Soon after the results were released, the company's stock price plunged to its lowest level in a decade and a number of small shareholders called for the resignation of Karl - Johan Persson, chief executive and grandson of the company's founder.