Sentences with phrase «companies became wealthy»

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Chris Larsen, the cofounder, executive chairman, and former CEO of the cryptocurrency company Ripple, became the world's fifth wealthiest person as the price of Ripple's XRP cryptocurrency soared past the $ 3 mark this week.

The companies, founded by two of the world's wealthiest and most outspoken businessmen, have become unlikely rivals since Amazon jumped into the computing services market and Oracle later started migrating to the cloud.

It turns out that while they were publicly crisscrossing America, they were also privately holding meetings with some of the wealthiest individuals and families in the country, urging them to not only invest in a new fund but become partners with some of the companies that will benefit from it.

Rather than restrict participation to the well - connected or seriously wealthy, anyone who plunks down $ 10,000 in a Portfolia fund — each of which invests in six to eight female - run companies — immediately becomes a Portfolia LP (limited partner).

In the 21st century, the example of internet companies like Alphabet, fka Google (GOOG) and Facebook (FB)-- both of which have made their founders wildly wealthy — people are enamored with the idea of becoming entrepreneurs.

Soon, powered by high oil prices and good relationships to Western investors and companies, Russia became more and more wealthy and overcame the transitional crisis it suffered in the 90s.

It is seen that a lot of college students prefer becoming a sugar baby as it fulfills their needs of money as well as company of a wealthy man.

For those who wish to become sugar babies and enjoy a luxurious lifestyle in the company of a wealthy man, this is more than just a TV movie.

Before establishing the Sutton Trust, Peter was the founder and chairman of the Sutton Company, a Private Equity firm with offices in New York, London and Munich, and became one of the 200 wealthiest people in the UK.

W. O. believed in displacement, but team driver Sir Henry «Tim» Birkin convinced his teammate, Woolf Barnato — an independently wealthy man who rescued the company from bankruptcy and became chairman in 1926 — to support supercharging.

Zemurray started out as a fruit peddler on the docks of Mobile, Alabama, and — through that classic combination of tenacity and instinct — eventually became the head of United Fruit, one of the wealthiest and most influential companies in American history.

S&A Investor Radio with Frank Curzio The typical dream for an investor is putting money into a company and watching its stock soar through the roof before cashing out and becoming wealthy.

anyone who invests heavy into 1 company deserves to either A) lose it all or B) become extremely wealthy.

Behind this RICO campaign of climate desperation lies a feeding machine of «Big Green» money: wealthy foundations with climate agendas (Energy Foundation, Soros Foundations, etc), well - funded media operations (InsideClimate News, Media Matters for America, etc), older environmental organizations anxious for a new strategy (Natural Resources Defense Council, Audubon, etc), billionaire newbies (Tom Steyer, Nathaniel Simons, etc), and clean - energy companies looking for long - term government subsidies that could only become available if larger, older organizations can no longer rececive them (Tesla, Solyndra, etc), and academics.

Of course, insurance companies don't become wealthy by granting claims.