Sentences with phrase «by billionaires who»

«We are concerned about these flavor - of - the - day interventions in the school system by billionaires who think that they know things, but really don't,» Caputo - Pearl said.

We strongly oppose allowing our nation's education policy to be driven by billionaires who have no education expertise, who do not send their own children to public schools, and whose particular biases and policy preferences are damaging our children's ability to receive a quality education.

As I detail in my book Hoosier School Heist, the so - called school reform movement in Indiana and elsewhere is led by billionaires who fund legislators to support bills to privatize public schools.

I bet most fans dream of being taken over by Billionaires who want to pump money into your football club.

«We're employed by a billionaire who's panicking at the idea of a change of government and who wants to spend big to make sure that doesn't happen.»

Not exact matches

The VC firm is owned, in turn by Renova Group, owned by Russian billionaire, Victor Vekselberg, who is one of Russia's richest men and dominates the country's oil and metals industry.

But now it has become obvious that there is a billionaire who is committed to a long - term campaign to wipe out Gawker by funding lawsuits.

The only question is: Who would agree to buy it knowing that billionaire Peter Thiel is determined to destroy it by whatever means necessary?

The stock has surged 41 % since President Donald Trump's November election, surprising many who predicted the company led by billionaire Elon Musk would suffer under a Republican government averse to supporting clean - energy companies with federal tax subsidies.

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

The fintech app Acorns may be backed by high - net - worth investors including billionaire trader Steve Cohen, but its customers are far more average: Regular investors who make as little as $ 25,000 per year.

Since his identity as Hogan's backer was revealed, Thiel's crusade against Gawker has been decried by a number of prominent journalists and defenders of a free press, who note that a billionaire bankrupting a media outlet as part of a personal vendetta raises serious questions about free speech.

With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.

PARIS, April 24 - French billionaire Vincent Bollore, who stepped down days ago as chairman of media giant Vivendi, is being questioned by police as part of an investigation into allegations of corrupt business practices in Africa, his lawyer said.

Cirsa, based outside Barcelona, is owned by 73 - year - old Spanish billionaire Manuel Lao who founded it in 1978.

After MSNBC broadcast a clip of an interview with Trump, the billionaire businessman rowed back his remarks, first saying that the abortion issue should be handled by states and later that doctors who performed abortions should be the ones held responsible.

That case was financed by Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who blamed for outing him as a gay man in 2007.

It was set up in 2006 by billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who crafts his gifts to make a point, as he explains to Fortune in an interview.

And separately we'll pursue this litigation with the various plaintiffs who are being backed by [PayPal billionaire] Peter Thiel.

«Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

The Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO appears with his tummy painted (like a yo - yo)-- along with more than 100 pregnant women who had their bumps transformed for «The Belly Art Project,» a coffee table book put together for charity by billionaire Spanx founder, Sara Blakely.

A group linked to the conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, owners of an energy and trading conglomerate who are reviled by unions and Democrats, held three conferences in Michigan in early 2012 on right - to - work featuring renowned conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart.

Buffett, a billionaire investor and outspoken critic of fund managers who profit from high fees at the expense of their clients, bet in 2007 that a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund would beat five funds of hedge funds selected by Protégé Partners over the next 10 years.

Of the 12 companies hit with sanctions in Friday's action, the Treasury Department said seven are either controlled or owned by Deripaska, the billionaire who emerged as a central figure in the U.S. probe of possible election interference by the Kremlin and its associates.

The offer is not the first move online to be made by Dubai billionaire Mohamed Alabbar, who made his name as chairman of Emaar Properties, the Dubai - government linked - developer of the world's tallest building.

And it was Guzmán who was regularly listed by Forbes as one of the world's richest billionaires and «the biggest drug lord of all time.»

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

The speculation of a disruption to the industry was fueled by the stature of the three companies» billionaire chief executives: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, who already has radically changed the retail industry; Warren Buffett, the famed investor who also oversees dozens of companies under Berkshire's umbrella; and Jamie Dimon, whose JPMorgan Chase is the nation's largest bank with $ 2.5 trillion in assets.

Next, sanctions on Russian aluminum, specifically a company called RUSAL, because of its association to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, who was alleged by the Treasury Department to be involved in a range of illegal activities.

Baidu is led by billionaire Robin Li who has a net worth of $ 7.5 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who is attempting to destroy Gawker Media by funding lawsuits against it, has long served on the Facebook board of directors.

Cruz — and later Trump — was funded primarily by the secretive US software billionaire Robert Mercer who, along with his daughter Rebekah, is reported to be the largest investor in Cambridge Analytica.

The tactics are similar to those used by larger, more prominent firms like Elliott Management, run by the billionaire investor Paul E. Singer, who has sued Argentina over debt repayment.

The aspiring electric car startup that's backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting has faced a series of legal setbacks and financial woes over the last year, most recently publicizing the firing of former BMW veteran who became the company's CFO.

Gates created the Giving Pledge in 2010 with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, and they have been joined by 168 others who promised to give the majority of their wealth to charity.

And Peterffy isn't the only Greenwich billionaire who has left for sunnier — and oh, by the way, lower tax — environs.

The company is controlled by Li Ka - shing, the Hong Kong billionaire who has close ties to the Chinese government.

This was topped by Ryoei Saito, a paper industry billionaire, who paid $ 82.5 million for another painting of van Gogh, «Dr. Gachet.»

There are also a number of wealthy investors like Tom Perkins, John Doerr, and Peter Thiel, Californian venture capitalists who became billionaires by backing start - ups and growing businesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once described the 51 year old billionaire as a man or a company of men who was plastic and permeable to principles and by the law of nature overpowers and override all cities, nations, rich men, kings and poets.

Gallo's books have been endorsed by a who's who of billionaires and business leaders such as Howard Schultz, Marc Benioff, Tony Hsieh, Daniel Pink, and Barbara Corcoran.

Koch Companies is owned by the billionaire Koch brothers, who have donated copious amounts of money to Tea Party Republicans, including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

It was created in 1994 by billionaire commodity trader Marc Rich «who was charged with tax evasion and illegal dealings with Iran, but pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001» as he left office.

The Egyptian billionaire, who made his fortune by building one of the nation's largest conglomerates, is prepared to allocate roughly $ 2.85 billion to bullion.

The billionaire investor and philanthropist, who gave $ 200 million to New York University's medical center in 2008, told CNBC an anonymous seven - figure donor felt slighted by the pope's recent comments.

Tea Party was funded by corporation money from the Koch chemical corporation OWNERS the Koch billionaire brothers who inherited the Koch chemical corporation from their father who inherited the Koch chemical corporation from his father.

So long as they don't pour more millions of dollars into a campaign that is already criminally overfunded by the corporations and the billionaires who will be expecting a «return» on their investments.

The big - budget epic was bankrolled by late billionaire Kirk Kerkorian a businessman of Armenian descent who once owned Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer.

It has also been a factor behind dairying investment decisions made by billionaires Gerry Harvey, Gina Rinehart and China's own entrepreneur Lu Xianfeng, who just bought Australia's largest dairy company Van Diemen's Land for $ 280 million.