Sentences with phrase «early employees of»

Adrian shares with us some of his experiences as one of the early employees of Yahoo and how JDSupra was formed and its purpose in helping lawyers get their articles in front of the right people.

Weissmann is one of the early employees of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, and this book is filled with great photography of actual lived - in tiny homes.

It is very common for early employees of startup companies to be granted stock options that can be exercised before vesting.

The PayPal mafia was a group of American business people and investors who were founders or early employees of the e-commerce company PayPal.

But Gordon Bell, an early employee of the computer maker Digital Equipment Corporation, hated to see obsolete computers sent to the scrap heap.

Interview — Steve Shank of Arizona is a Kindle fan with 35 years of experience introducing new technology, dating back to his days as an early employee of Apple.

SCOTT BUTLER An early employee of the pioneering game studio Argonaut Software, Scott has worked in the video games business for over 24 years.

As an early employee of Pixar, he directed the first two Toy Story films, and he's been a core member of the company's creative brain trust since the company was founded.

Not exact matches

The shift is reflected in Canada, where the total number of employees in the industry in 2012 rose 5 % to 16,500 over a year earlier, according to the Entertainment Software Association of Canada.

Similarly, about a quarter of the respondents reported they intend to hire new employees, up from about 16 percent a year earlier.

The grueling culture begins even earlier than on the first day of work, according to a former SpaceX employee.

(Some of his early employees are still with the company today.)

Onboarding plans are intended to make new employees familiar with the overall goals of a company and support them as they embark on early projects all in an effort to achieve the perception of success (and productivity) quickly.

While LGBT inclusion has been a winning stance for companies from a marketing standpoint — several major companies made a public showing of support for LGBT rights during the Sochi Olympics earlier this year — the survey results suggest that companies have some work to do to make employees feel welcomed within their workplaces.

Founders and early employees have already cashed out of $ 350 million in equity, the story points out.

However, despite his advocacy of nation - wide programs, Farrington has a simple message for Canadians thinking about their retirement security: «We hope that this ranking can be a rallying cry to employees to be saving as much as possible, as early as possible.»

Consumers soured on the brand when confronted with empty shelves — the exact scenario some senior employees warned of earlier in the year.

In the project's early stages, 30 % of the company's employees were hired locally.

Hosted by a community called Xoogler.co, the event featured 24 startups founded by former Googlers, with an audience of 118 angel or early - stage investors, many of whom were current employees or alumni themselves.

Mobli was also famous for being one of the first startups to use NASDAQ's private market, allowing early employees to cash out their shares in the company by selling them to other private investors.

Early on in my career as I became a manager of employees and functional areas, ongoing relationships and meetings with my mentees became the early training and practice ground for sharpening my «plan of attack.&rEarly on in my career as I became a manager of employees and functional areas, ongoing relationships and meetings with my mentees became the early training and practice ground for sharpening my «plan of attack.&rearly training and practice ground for sharpening my «plan of attack.»

Residents were allowed to begin re-entering certain undamaged Fort McMurray neighbourhoods on Wednesday, but Dutton said many of Casman's employees were permitted into town earlier if their homes were intact and if they had jobs to do.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is an early user, signing up some 100 employees last year with plans to roll the product out to 30,000 of its 100,000 employees by the end of this year.

Since Virgin's early days, I have played pranks every April Fool's Day to make people laugh, to draw attention to our brand, and also to remind employees of our company's founding spirit.

While it is easy to point fingers and shame corporations for not offering paid leave to all employees, Katie Bethell, founder and executive director of PLUS told Fortune in an interview about an earlier version of the non-profit's report that «ultimately, solving paid family leave will require a national public policy.»

Many of these people are allowed to contribute to both a 401 (k) and a 457 plan [Editor's note: A 457 plan, available to government employees, is similar to a 401 (k) but has no 10 percent early withdrawal penalty.]

Earlier this month, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management — effectively, the government's human resources department — disclosed that it had fallen victim to a massive data breach that may affect roughly 4 million current and former federal employees.

But the leader who asks this question of employees sees something even greater: the patterns of strengths, the early warning signs of deficiencies, and the opportunities and possibilities yet to be seized across the organization.

Employees in their early 30s often suffer from more stress due to being in a season of life during which they're incurring debt.

Expert Market also noted that earlier this month, the U.K. government ordered thousands of companies to disclose information such as employee salaries and titles to suss out cases in which women are being underpaid within organizations.

Really early on I wasted a lot of time talking to the wrong people and partners, possible employees and even investors.

But it hasn't been all smooth sailing for the internet culture king; Huh cut about 35 percent of its staff (24 employees) earlier this year amid lagging ad revenue as audiences have begun to favor mobile over desktop.

& # 9660 Earlier this year, when Microsoft killed its new line of Kin smartphones in less than two months, its own employees were among the first to admit the Redmond, Wash. - based company had screwed up.

That would extend the amount of time before earlier investors and employees can cash out.

English is the working language, and employees of all ranks are addressed by their initials, a time - saving practice that dates back to the firm's early days.

It officially opened to Apple employees earlier this year, supplanting the 1 Infinite Loop campus as the company's main seat of power.

Flying to his remote company locations in his private jet, and surrounded by his early employees who were now worth tens of millions of dollars, the mantra of «you really have to want to work here or you ought to leave» rang hollow for the latest employees.

Startups, which generally tend to have lean teams, can sometimes face the brunt of employees quitting their jobs very early due to number reasons.

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.

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.

But early supporters of the new savings tool are already losing hope it will do what it was meant to do: broaden workplace pensions beyond the 39 % of Canadian employees who have them now.

As for Cambridge, its team has roots in the American debt - settlement business that has drawn so much fire — and some of its earliest employees have been linked to companies accused of legal and regulatory violations in the U.S., according to court and corporate documents obtained by Canadian Business.

A year ago, the agency offered early retirement to a number of employees and the decrease in headcount achieved then was enough to mitigate the requisite budget cuts, Mills told reporters in a meeting in New York last week.

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.

Luckily, the support of eUniverse meant that early incarnations of Myspace didn't suffer from the usual startup growing pains stemming from inexperienced employees, funding problems or a lack of server capacity.

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.

Employees had observed the popularity of early networking sites such as Friendster, and set out to design a better version.

The Brittany - based maker of high - quality thin papers used in printing and publishing that he inherited in the early 1980 s has become an 18.3 billion - euro global group with a Paris listing and 80,000 employees.

Meanwhile, as the industry continues to grow, «it can be tough to carve out your own niche,» concedes Soles, an early employee and now part - owner of the now 450 - person company.