Sentences with phrase «by its billionaire founder»

Fears that the Tesla Roadster electric sports car had hit the skids because of the financial crisis have been eased by its billionaire founder and chief executive, Elon Musk.

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Along with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Buffett is a founder of The Giving Pledge, which is a promise made by more than 100 billionaires to give their fortunes away.

That idea has been championed by other billionaire entrepreneurs, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.

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.

Tinder, the hookup app whose corporate parent, Match Group, is controlled by billionaire Barry Diller, has cited as evidence an October 2015 story in The Post that interviewed 3nder's founder.

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.»

Founders Fund, a VC firm backed by billionaire Peter Thiel has invested in a Tagomi System, a new startup that helps big investors trade bitcoin.

Melinda Gates first heard about the controversial memo written by an engineer at Google from her husband, Bill — the billionaire founder of Microsoft.

Investors continue to hammer Tesla, a day after founder Elon Musk dumbfounded some on Wall Street by cutting off what the billionaire called «boring, bonehead» questions about the electric car maker's finances during a conference call with stock analysts.

The firm has links to Trump's former chief strategist and Breitbart founder Steve Bannon and is partially - owned by billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.

According to a TU report, the actual ownership of Momentive is fairly complicated — a corporate web that includes six billionaires on the Forbes magazine list of the nation's 400 richest people, including Stephen Schwarzman, founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, who was tapped by President - elect Donald Trump to serve as his chief job creation adviser.

Billionaire hedge fund founder Ken Griffin is pledging $ 1 million to help rebuild Puerto Rico, which was devastated last month by Hurricane Maria.

Paul Singer, the billionaire founder of Elliot Management — a vulture fund that mainly gets rich by scooping up the debt of countries in distress at a discount and bullying them into paying full value — also dumped $ 500,000 into New York Wins PAC, according to federal election filings.

Other bold - faced names at the dinner parties — hosted by the likes of billionaire Cathy Lasry, real estate developer Henry Lambert and federal prosecutor Leslie Cornfeld — include Meredith Bennett, co-executive producer of «The Colbert Report»; television personality (and Rudy Giuliani's ex-wife) Donna Hanover; Democratic pollster Celinda Lake; former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton; Founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council John Adams; and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

Mr. Buchanan is supported by a loose alliance with ties to Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who is the party's founder.

Cambridge Analytica is owned by conservative billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, and counted former Trump adviser and Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon as one of its founders.

Elon Musk, the company's audacious billionaire founder, has said that when rockets can be reused like airplanes, launch costs will fall by up to 99 percent.

Not anymore,» stated a blog post on the company's website, written by founder Jeff Bezos, the billionaire who also founded Amazon.com.

Blue Origin, the aerospace company privately owned and bankrolled by billionaire and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, -LSB-...]

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Damning Bio-Pic Recounts Rise of Ruthless Facebook Founder This damning bio-pic portrays Person of the Year and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as less a computer genius than a ruthless fraud who deliberately stabbed everyone close to him in the back en route to becoming the world's youngest billiFounder This damning bio-pic portrays Person of the Year and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as less a computer genius than a ruthless fraud who deliberately stabbed everyone close to him in the back en route to becoming the world's youngest billifounder Mark Zuckerberg as less a computer genius than a ruthless fraud who deliberately stabbed everyone close to him in the back en route to becoming the world's youngest billionaire.

Oscar Isaac chills as Nathan, the psychopathic yet charismatic billionaire founder of the search engine company that protagonist Caleb, played by Domhnall Gleeson, works for.

Nowhere has the battle been more pitched than in Los Angeles Unified, where candidates funded by wealthy pro-charter advocates like billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and Netflix founder Reed Hastings won a majority of school board seats in the 2017 board election.

Eli Broad, founder of the Academy, is one of the «Billionaire Boys» (as Diane Ravich refers to them — a small group of uber - successful entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, John Walton, Eli Broad, etc.) By most accounts (including his own), Roosevelt has made significant progress in Pittsburg.

The trust, which is sponsored by the billionaire Carphone Warehouse founder and Conservative Party donor David Ross (pictured right), runs 33 schools across the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, educating 11,000 pupils and employing 2,200 staff.

The firm is managed by its founder, billionaire investor Fayez Sarofim, who focuses on high - quality dominant large - cap growth companies.

In the wake of the New Museum's announcement of a controversial exhibition drawn solely from the extensive collection of billionaire Dakis Joannou, one of their trustees and founder of the Deste Foundation in Athens, and slated to be curated by artist Jeff Koons, who is heavily represented...

They stay away from Lycra, the commonly used stretchy fabric owned by the billionaire Koch brothers, whose climate change - denying beliefs are at odds with GC's founders.

«Muller is a long - standing, colorful critic of prevailing climate science, and the Berkeley project was heavily funded by the Charles Koch Charitable Foundation, which, along with its libertarian petrochemical billionaire founder Charles G. Koch, has a considerable history of backing groups that deny climate change.»

And LeEco's founder, the billionaire Jia Yueting, has reportedly signaled that he won't be investing any more into Faraday, prompting the recent rush by Krause for fresh funds.

WhatsApp founder Brian Acton, whom Facebook made into a billionaire by acquiring his company tweeted, simply and ominously: «It is time.

«We plan to revolutionize the automobile industry by creating an integrated, intelligent mobility system that protects the earth and improves the living environment of mankind,» Jia Yueting, the billionaire founder and chief executive of Leshi TV, an Internet video service, wrote in a letter to Nevada legislators.

The billionaire founder of the Ayre Group and the Bodog entertainment brand, Calvin Ayre, is reportedly building a $ 100 million five - star resort on Antigua's Valley Church beach — funded entirely by profits made from investments in digital currencies.

A «Novel and Exciting Concept» The billionaire founder of the Ayre Group and the Bodog entertainment brand, Calvin Ayre, is reportedly building a $ 100 million five - star resort on Antigua's Valley Church beach — funded entirely by profits made from investments in digital currencies.

Two entrepreneurs from the UK — the founder of the Ultimo lingerie brand baroness Michelle Mone and her billionaire partner Douglas Barrowman — have sold 50 luxury apartments in Dubai that they originally promised to put on offer for Bitcoin last September, according to a report published by Business Insider Feb. 10.

«The beauty's billionaire boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, immediately flew her by private jet to Vail, Colo., where she was treated by J. Richard Steadman, one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the world and the founder of the Steadman Clinic, which has treated many athletes, including Alex Rodriguez.»