Sentences with phrase «early employees at»

About Blog One of the members of the PayPal mafia (early employees at PayPal) who has had an amazing track record.

In their race to monetise our attention, technology platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google are hijacking our minds and society, says a group of technologists who were early employees at some of these companies.

As one of the early employees at Zynga, he delved into social games as a software architect to lead front end development teams at their virtual worlds studio.

An early - stage company typically sells its units (or grants options over its units) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Company.

You can hear Noah Kagan, one of the early employees at Facebook, tell a story demonstrating Zuckerberg's laser focus on growth.

An early - stage company typically sells its shares (or grants options over its shares) to its founders and early employees at a very low cash cost, because they are, in effect, putting their «sweat equity» into the Company.

Like many other early employees at Lyft, I used my personal dropbox to collaborate on files.

I was an early employee at Facebook and Mint, but left (or was fired) before massive financial gain.

Then Cerilli became an early employee at Seamless, a food ordering site created by Jason Finger.

Passionate about the intersection of tech and media, Randi was an early employee at Facebook where she was the creator of Facebook Live, and currently hosts a weekly tech business show called Dot Complicated on SiriusXM.

I worked on business development and marketing as an early employee at Coinbase, where I helped the first brand name merchants accept bitcoin, led the first bitcoin integrations with banks and startups and managed the Coinbase blog and social media.

His wife, Jana Messerschmidt, was an early employee at Twitter, and now heads an early - stage venture fund called #Angels.

While Ben hadn't taken Cell Biology 101, he did have the advantage of being an early employee at the company, number 11 to be precise.

TECH CRUNCH - Nov 24 - Whitney Wolfe, an early employee at Tinder who sued the company for sexual harassment and workplace discrimination, has joined up with two other early Tinder employees, Chris Gulczynski and his partner Sarah Mick (cofounders of YayNext), to launch a direct competitor to Tinder called Bumble.

Prior to joining Polyera, Brendan was an early employee at Rosetta, a digital marketing agency.

If there's no shot at getting rich for grinding it out as an early employee at a startup, top talent won't take those jobs.

An early employee at CloudFlare and founder of one of the first bitcoin exchanges TradeHill, Senior Lecturer at General Assembly and weathered full stack engineer.

Not exact matches

At an event in Nashville in early February for retail - store employees, Legere made a surprise appearance.

The investigation followed a report by Reveal on Sunday alleging that Tesla under - counted and mis - labeled employee injuries at its electric vehicle factory in Fremont, California, as well as a paint shop fire that occurred there in early April.

Mt. Gox subsequently shot from obscurity to dominate global trade in bitcoin, but as early as 2012 employees at the Tokyo - based exchange challenged Karpeles on issues such as whether client money was being used to cover costs.

And yet, only 41 % of workers are saving in a 401 (k) at the 79 % of American companies that offer a plan to employees, Bloomberg reported earlier this year.

Conrad told Inc. in March that he got the idea for Zenefits when he was researching health care benefits for employees at an earlier startup, and because he is a cancer survivor with an ongoing interest in health care coverage.

We have summer Fridays, where employees leave at 1 p.m. to get an early start on their weekends.

That means they'll get liquid, which is particularly meaningful for early - stage employees who take the risk of working for a startup and receive stock options in lieu of the higher pay and greater security available at more mature companies.

One former employee, who preferred to remain anonymous, describes employee sentiment as one of «disillusionment and discontent,» adding that that many employees bristle at the fact that Pincus cashed out so early.

DST solves this problem for entrepreneurs by coming in and buying stock from these early investors and employees at very high valuations.

The company also maintains an unwritten policy of rewarding employees who work late over those who arrive early and leave at the end of a normal work - day, making it difficult for women with children, according to the complaint.

During this time, Hester noticed that the new employees coming into LAN Systems seemed to look and act «lost» at times during the early months of their employment.

Earlier this month, Urban Outfitters came under fire over media reports that said it was asking salaried employees to volunteer to work at its fulfillment centers.

Zhang Yiming, the chief executive of Bytedance, last month said on social media that the company would increase the number of employees handling censorship at Toutiao — a popular news app that's also part of the social media giant — to 10,000 after being temporarily banned earlier this year.

In a regulatory filing on Wednesday, SolarCity said it had 12,243 employees at the end of 2016, down 19.8 % from the 15,273 it reported a year earlier.

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum earlier this week, Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff revealed that he spent about $ 3 million this year to bring the salaries of female employees up to the level of their male counterparts.

Legal issues aside, the tweet could be viewed as a heavy - handed move for a company already under scrutiny after an earlier Medium post by a 25 - year - old employee identifying herself as Talia Jane, who complained of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

'' «We were screaming at the wall,» said Tom Susman, who headed the state's public employee insurance agency in the early 2000s and led the push to limit OxyContin prescribing in West Virginia.

Kim's post is reminiscent of posts earlier this year on Medium from employees at Yelp, which characterized the online review company's atmosphere as overly stressful and complained of certain roles being underpaid.

He launched his career as an early Amazon Web Services employee and then did a seven - year stint at Microsoft and wasn't about to give up.

It also is unclear if the round — which Bloomberg reports is designed to raise at least $ 1 billion — would include any so - called secondary sales by Uber employees or early investors.

As the the inside story unfolds on what could have been the real trouble between the suspect and the tech company, our hearts go out for Google employees present at the YouTube headquarters earlier today.

«He's always been a learn - it - all person, to a level that is sometimes maddening, considering how much more I have to learn from him than he does from me,» says Matt Cohler, a venture capitalist at Benchmark and an early Facebook employee who has remained close to Zuckerberg.

Many will raise more private money at lower valuations, so - called «down rounds,» which will deeply hurt employees, founders and some earlier investors.

At the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Buffett commented on the fault he saw at Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customerAt the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting earlier this month, Buffett commented on the fault he saw at Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customerat Wells Fargo (wfc), where a high - pressure sales culture has been blamed for creating an atmosphere that led employees to create as many as 2 million fake accounts for customers.

Some early Google employees have gone on to become entrepreneurs, while others are now angel investors, and a lucky few have gone on to become top executives at other tech companies.

The folks at EquityZen, a marketplace for investors looking to buy shares from startup employees, have been tracking how all of Square's early investors have fared.

Early Marker: Was employee No. 230 at Google, where she rose to run Asia - Pacific and Latin America's online ad sales.

But recent research suggests that there's an exception: when employees work significantly more hours early in their career, it pays off in the long - run, Dr. Dora Gicheva, an assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, found.

The high standards that make for a great early - stage employee tend not to be at all compatible with a comfort with failure.

In early 2012, Best Buy founder Richard Schulze resigned from the company amidst his role in turning a blind eye at a company scandal involving a top executive's shady «personal conduct» (i.e. an affair) with a certain 29 - year - old female employee.

Early last year, during an all - hands meeting, she looked out at the crowd of 230 employees and realized many had tuned out her updates on financial stats.

In a public letter and interview in early October, the president of the Oakville local, Dave Thomas, said a deal similar to the one approved at GM would likely be rejected in Oakville, where 5,000 of the union's nearly 7,000 Ford employees work.

The APA survey mentioned earlier found that 91 percent of workers at companies with well - being programs have a positive relationship with supervisors, and 93 percent of employees reported positive relationships with coworkers.