Sentences with phrase «cofounders who»

«We have a design that we are looking to make happen wherever we can,» says Dennis Littky, one of the cofounders who started the Big Picture Company with «the Met» (the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center) in 1996 in Providence.

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That's why Matt Ronge and Giovanni Donelli, Astropad's two cofounders who previously worked as engineers at Apple, decided to make something cheaper that would work directly on your iPad.

So my cofounder who you met in the shark costume, and for your listeners out there, the conference Shannon is talking about is called FinCon.

Most of the allegations in the case date to the period when Uber was led by CEO Travis Kalanick, the cofounder who was ousted earlier this year amid criticism that the company had fostered a toxic work culture and allowed sexual harassment to flourish.

Not exact matches

Fielding is a friend and former mentee of the legendary Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, who also invested in the company.

«People who sleep differently actually do need different beds,» says Helix Sleep cofounder Kristian von Rickenbach.

The three cofounders, who met at Yale, had unconventional backgrounds for the tech world.

On Memorial Day weekend, Moghadam called his cofounders to let them know he'd heard from a writer at Gawker who was doing a post on his annotations.

«I am more than willing to give a second chance to Mark in this fight's critical hour,» says Andrew Lee, cofounder and chairman of London Trust Media, who also briefly ran Mt. Gox's U.S. operations.

«The Skype effect has been enormous,» says Heinla, who started Starship with Skype cofounder Janus Friis; major investors include Daimler A.G., as well as Silicon Valley firms Shasta Ventures and Matrix Partners.

«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,» says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.

Along with Keller came other researchers, who became the company's scientific cofounders.

It made billionaires of its cofounders, who sold the company just before the dot - com era bubble burst.

In conversation with Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia, who explains how his sharing - economy company «dog - foods» to better understand its customers.

«I wouldn't be surprised if Meg ended up the first female President,» says Bob Kagle, a cofounder of venture capital firm Benchmark, who helped recruit Whitman to eBay.

That's almost five times the percentage of CEOs on the 1999 list who tapped their cofounders.

That's according to Joel Smith, cofounder and CTO of email and web security company AppRiver, who says a slew of affordable options exist for keeping a company's machines from «getting owned» due to the dumb things employees might be doing while at work.

With his boss's blessing, Cerilli quit his job at First Round, brought Matt Doumar — who had built SinglePlatform's entire product team — on board as a cofounder, and got started on a company that would eventually become known as Good Uncle.

Jeff Zwelling, CEO and cofounder of Convertro, a provider of marketing and advertising measurement, says he often turns to unique, and sometimes tricky, questions during job interviews so that he can get a better sense of who the candidate is.

That's according to Matt Buder Shapiro, cofounder and CMO of medical bill resolution platform MedPilot, who has boosted his company's traffic by 297 percent by implementing a few key strategies.

While starting a company related to insights she garnered from her Ph.D. around social networks, she met her cofounder, Dr. Zachary Apte, who was finishing his Ph.D. in biophysics.

(It's assumed he was talking about Alperovitch, who is a cofounder and was born in Moscow to Russian parents.)

And the ECD cofounder, who turns 80 in November, isn't done yet.

Sandberg told LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman for an episode of his podcast «Masters of Scale» that at one point her late husband Dave Goldberg, who was the CEO of Survey Monkey, gave her «the world's best advice» on working with Zuckerberg that put her mind to ease.

Cofounders Ariel Nelson and Lane Gerson named their company after their fathers: «Two men who appreciate great shoes, but who will never pay more than $ 200 on a pair.»

On his panel: his grandfather, Bill Draper, co-founder of Sutter Hill Ventures; his father, Tim Draper, cofounder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson; his sister, Jesse Draper, host of «The Valley Girl Show»; and his brother, Billy Draper, a Facebook alum who now works with his father at Draper Associates.

John [Lasseter, cofounder of Pixar Animation Studios] was the director, and he had four people around him who were very focused and funny and really driven.

Pownce will cease to exist as a standalone website and cofounder Leah Culver, who was one of the entrepreneurs under 30 profiled in our October issue, will be moving to Six Apart and shutting down her own website.

Rehmus agreed to back the Guru.com team and gave the Slavets entrà ‰ e to two other heavy hitters: former McKinsey partner and managing director Gluck and CitySearch cofounder Layton, who has invested in a total of 32 companies so far.

As for the brain's positive explosive forces, we'll explore where the creative spark comes from, how to nurture them when they come — and how to turn those brainstorms into a worthy invention — with two individuals who have harnessed that power themselves: serial inventor and CEO of United Therapeutics Martine Rothblatt and James Park, cofounder and CEO of Fitbit.

Business Insider recently met with Waze cofounder and former CEO Uri Levine, the only one of Waze's cofounder executives who didn't go work at Google after the deal closed.

Paul Graham, Altman's cofounder at Y Combinator (who also happens to be English) suggested that the Ritz incident meant that London just wasn't on the same level as San Francisco and Northern California:

Anastasia Gentles, cofounder of Sugar Land, Texas - based Nightlight Pediatric Urgent Care (No. 2,306), says catching the ear of a female banker at Louisiana - based Whitney Bank who understood the importance of what she and her two co-founders were doing was the turning point in her business's early days.

«The combined amount of knowledge that resides in individuals» heads dwarfs that within any single repository,» notes Rygg, who is the cofounder and chairman of online - community start - up Kiko Inc..

That's according to Sydney - born Airtasker cofounder and CEO Tim Fung, who told Business Insider he came up with the idea while chasing success in more traditional ways.

The brainchild of CEO and former Googler Ben Barokas (who brought on JP Carlucci, Matt Adkisson, Brian Kane, Geir Magnusson, and Jeroen Seghers as cofounders), Sourcepoint lets publishers decide how to present their messages on servers with ad blockers, whether that's choosing to circumvent the ad blocker, allowing the user to choose their own advertising experience, asking the visitor to pay, or merely saying «our ads pay for your content, how about you choose to allow them.»

One of Uber's cofounders, Garrett Camp, created startup lab Expa with help from New York partner Naveen Selvadurai, who had previously cofounded Foursquare.

Nearly 200 advisors, plan sponsors, consultants and recordkeepers attended the one - day conference, held in the rarefied atmosphere of Chicago University's Booth School of Business — named after DFA cofounder, chairman and CEO Booth, who had made a $ 300 million donation to the school.

Its eight - member board is similarly dominated by white men, with three exceptions: former Boeing president James Bell, who is black; BlackRock cofounder Susan Wagner; and Grameen America CEO Andrea Jung.

Hoon chose to work with NTY after meeting Ron Olson, NTY's cofounder, who'd started the franchisor now known as Winmark, a Plymouth - based company whose franchise brands include resale stores Once Upon a Child, Play It Again Sports and Music Go Round.

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.

Kalanick, a natural salesman who sold knives door - to - door as a high school student one summer, helped bring in investment from Michael Ovitz, cofounder of the talent agency CAA, and Ron Burkle, the supermarket magnate.

Coworking has changed the lives of women, and through coworking, women can change lives, according to Laura Shook Guzman and Iris Kavanagh, cofounders of Women Who Cowork.

Ballmer owns a bit less than them — 4 %, but that's still more than Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey, who was recently named CEO and owns 3.2 %.

The company was based on a novel lithium - ion technology developed by Yet - Ming Chiang, an MIT professor who is also a cofounder of Desktop Metal.

We asked how he and cofounder Michael Cheung — a McKinsey alum who more recently spent a year as a senior director with Tencent Holdings — managed to put the fund together and what they are aiming to do.

Travis Kalanick, the CEO and cofounder of Uber, told staff Tuesday he will take time off in order to grieve for his mother, who recently died in a tragic boating accident.

Of course, talk with Lonsdale about hard problems invariably leads to questions about Lonsdale's mentor - turned - cofounder, Peter Thiel, who famously complained years ago: «We wanted flying cars.

Since the departure of Ding Lei, who acted as Faraday Future's global CEO until late 2016, the sources claimed that Faraday Future cofounder and LeEco CEO Jia Yueting has been acting as the unofficial CEO of the company.