Sentences with phrase «company built around»

Sideman said he aims later this year to transition YouNow to a «B Corp,» a specially certified type of company built around concepts such as sustainability and transparency.

Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, Google has grown from a company built around a search engine to a business that offers everything from cloud computing, Android, smartphones, VR devices and more.

Effective Coverage is a company built around offering you the service you deserve, the answers you deserve, the coverage you deserve, and the price you deserve, all at the speed you need.

The Short Version: Founded in 2008, Bitly is a company built around the all - powerful link.

«The next thing you know, you have this company built around all of those decisions and you're successful and you have real money, but then it takes a huge revolution to make change,» says Poon Tip, who was at a loss for how to manage the company that had grown beyond his original vision.

After exiting the apparel business, Rosenblum formed a multimedia and advertising company built around branded entertainment, advertising, and mobile application development.

Not exact matches

Qualtrics, which calls itself a customer - service experience management company, is built around the idea that immediate feedback makes for a better product.

-- BlackBerry plans to forge stronger partnerships with others in the tech industry and build better relationships with longtime business customers as the smartphone company attempts to turn around flagging operations, chief executive John Chen says.

«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.

It should be about investing in great entrepreneurs building great companies and less around speculating on cryptocurrencies and certain financial instruments.

The problem we OWGs (Old White Guys — that's what they call us) have is that we built our companies» cultures around the things that motivated our generation: money, career progression, and retirement plans.

ENTREPRENEUR: Companies charter boats for team - building exercises, albeit around the harbor for a day.

In 2011, Skype's first employee, Taavet Hinrikus, cofounded TransferWise, an online money - transfer company, which now occupies four floors of a Tallinn building and handles about $ 1 billion a month in exchanges around the world.

Already, the company appears to have done a good job building excitement around the game — since Sunday, more than 48,000 tweets have been sent featuring the game's hashtag or the link to the live stream, according to Quid, an artificial intelligence data - analytics company.

Now, as Ko is building company No. 2, a fashion - forward sunglasses brand called Perverse, she's leaning heavily on the discipline that helped her find success the first time around.

He has coached the top business, athletic, and performance leaders around the world, built dozens of hugely successful companies and non-profits, and continues to generously donate his time, money, and talent on a massive scale.

The best way to protect against that, Woodman says, is to build a moat around the company in the form of its content ecosystem.

Among those that speak up are academics, former FAA officials, aerospace industry executives, drone entrepreneurs looking to build new companies around UAS technologies and services, local law enforcement, and U.S. intelligence employees.

It was incredibly hard because we built the company around this really awesome consumer vision, but when the economy fell off a cliff, we basically needed to find an immediate business model and put the consumer stuff on hold for a bit, so that we could survive.

Evan Spiegel's company wanted to build hype around its new partnership with artist Jeff Koons.

«It started with this tiny company making pants,» Calhoun says, «but the culture around the brand is what's having the most impact on people, directly and indirectly, and this momentum is building.»

My company, Women Rocking Business, has raised over half a million dollars for women around the globe, women in the rainforest and in Indonesia, supporting them to build businesses that serve their communities and protect our ecosystems, this is something I'm deeply proud of.

Many of Canada's managers understand this instinctively and the top performers — like many of those on Canada's Best Managed Companies list for 2018 — have built their businesses around that reality.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

You'll need to build a sales and support team around you as your company grows and provide them with the resources and training they need to succeed.

According to a Bloomberg report, young campaign enthusiasts are discarding their old intern and campaign manager positions for something they believe will be more lucrative and potentially game changing — building companies around Web platforms both political parties will embrace.

«They build their lives around the knowledge of what we do,» says Tanne, whose company is based in Armonk, New York.

The company purposely has fewer desks than employees — 1,520 for 2,000 people — to encourage staff to move around the building.

«Whenever there's been a big platform shift, the companies that ultimately succeeded were the companies that were built around that new platform — whose soul is that new platform,» says Gibbs.

Another example is the Little Miss Matched apparel company, which decided to build a business around selling non-matching socks in sets of three.

Pacheco says a critical part of leading your startup to success in an environment with a dominant player is to focus on your key strengths and build your company around them.

But the company's commitment to culture goes beyond surface benefits — Elite was built around the idea that employees should be able to determine their own schedules, workloads and ultimately, pay.

«You're going to see a more united approach around prospecting to acquisition and retention teams working together, and over time that will really build a predictive acquisition model,» says Monica Girolami, head of North America marketing at NewVoiceMedia, a company that links inbound and outbound communications through Salesforce.

The company was gung - ho on building a company around an idea instead of what users wanted.

A quick test to see if you did this right is to ask if these core values would be relevant 100 years from now, assuming your company is around, which frankly should be the goal when building an organization.

As CEO, I am focused on building a company around the vision of our founder and the talent of the people we put around him.

Around the same time we were building Stonyfield, a friend of mine and her husband started what became a hugely successful consumer goods company.

Five years later, Roark was so pleased with Brown's success that they made him CEO of a new holding company, Inspire Brands, which includes Arby's and is built around the transformation model Brown used there.

Amid the intense political fighting, the public option was dropped, and the ACA was built around the insurance company model.

As working with a vendor and figure out the steps in the company's process, you can then anticipate its methods and build your procedures around that.

At that point, the company had built about 60 prototypes, and some were scattered around the premises; employees hopped on them to quickly dart from one end of the factory to the other.

That's the opinion of Melonee Wise, the CEO of Fetch Robotics, a company that builds robots that follow warehouse workers around facilities and act as autonomously moving storage containers.

The hype, he said, is the problem: Excitement can build up around a company long before a regulator like the FDA denies approval to a product or slaps the firm for overly bold marketing claims or improper lab protocols.

Best Buy: The electronics retailer unrolled a Twitter - focused marketing and customer service strategy built around «Twelpforce,» a system the company created to allow thousands of employees across departments to receive and respond to customer queries via Twitter.

My company has a joint venture with VICE, building a studio in downtown Toronto, whilst exporting the Canadian - made content around the world.

So, grudgingly, the health care reformers and progressive politicians behind Medicare built their program of government - funded health policies for the elderly around the insurance company model.

The founder and self - described «SHE - E-O» of Thinx has built a company around breaking taboos, starting with her very product — an underwear designed to replace feminine hygiene supplies.

With Federal officials testifying to Congress last November that despite its darker uses, the online currency has real - life benefits for lubricating global financial systems, the future appears bright for Bitcoin — and the companies Draper plans to build up around it.

No company has built a business more singularly around the goal of sustainability than Elon Musk's Tesla Motors (tsla).

And we thought the best way to have those kinds of universal values was to build around company - owned stores and then to provide stock options to every employee, to give them a financial and psychological stake in the company.»