Sentences with phrase «founder of $»

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While in August, the founder of the $ 870 million Duxton Asset Management, Ed Peter, also launched a $ 99 million raising for a new water entitlements fund to be listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and position itself to expand across the Murray Darling Basin.

As founder of a $ 30 million technical support startup, Heather Blease was on top of the world.

Today, Veasey is the 44 - year - old founder of the $ 6 million handmade - craft empire Our Name Is Mud.

Ray Dalio, founder of $ 160 billion hedge fund Bridgewater Associates and self - made billionaire, has a simple rule that can ensure everyone gets their time in the spotlight.

Milt Reimer, the founder of a $ 45 - million - a-year snowmobile and motocross clothing empire, is an entrepreneur who believes in mechanics.

The founder of the $ 9 - billion financial - data company has been flexing his muscles and making it very clear exactly who is in charge.

What experience does Koel Thomae, founder of $ 170 million yogurt company Noosa, credit with her entrepreneurial success?

Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

Not exact matches

John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $ 2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund, revealed a long position in U.S. homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc, which he said should rise as more millennials age into the first - time home buyer market.

-- Mike Lowe, founder and CEO of Kidoodle, an award - winning video platform for kids, featuring quality TV shows and movies within a safe viewing environment that has received over $ 10 million in financing and closed major licensing deals

Despite the slow start, the team managed to cobble together $ 720,000 in seed funding from angel investors including Naval Ravikant, CEO and founder of the startup network AngelList, and investment firms such as Pantera Capital and Shanghai's Fenbushi Capital.

How local and national publicity helped Julien Leitner, the 14 - year - old founder of the Archimedes Alliance, spark change and move the world, $ 2 at a time.

«I'd put them at $ 1 billion or $ 2 billion at best, considering their existing user base and the fact that they have a great brand,» says Ilan Nass, founder of Taktical, a tech consulting firm.

The founder of Wind Mobile says firms often fail to make the leap from mid-sized to global, and he's got a $ 100 million plan to help

The company has since raised $ 75 million from the likes of Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, and General Catalyst, and has recruited top talent to its 60 - employee team, including Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai.

-- Richard Moross, founder and CEO of print business MOO, which has more than $ 100 million in revenue and has expanded to six locations since launching in 2006

One is Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade, who spent $ 1.3 million in the 2010 elections to publicly shame earmarking «hooligans» in Congress and honor the «heroes» fighting to zero them out.

He is best known as the founder of wireless carrier Wind Mobile, which was sold last year for $ 1.6 billion.

Ricky's NYC founder and chairman Todd Kenig says Halloween sales account for about 20 percent of the firm's annual $ 50 million revenue, but Sandy forced to shutter all of its stores, as well as its corporate office, in the two days leading up to the holiday.

«I don't want to say this is a great day — because it will have a negative impact on human beings, and I want to be compassionate,» says Linkner, the founder of Detroit Venture Partners, a $ 50 million venture capital firm that invests in early - stage start - ups in the city.

John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $ 2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund,...

«Every startup competition has their own goals that are much bigger than just giving free money away to startup founders,» says Jonathan Allen, President and co-founder of Longneck & Thunderfoot (L&T), a content marketing firm and previous winner of a $ 50,000 Arch Grant.

In her first year of business, Lainey Morris, founder of Original Goat Yoga, made $ 160,000 in revenue.

Along with Y Combinator founder Sam Altman, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a non-profit with $ 1 billion in pledged backing that has the goal of ensuring artificial intelligence is used for good.

According to research from the Kauffman Foundation, the average age of a founder with a startup with more than $ 1 million in revenue is 38.

James Hong and Jim Young, the original founders of Hot or Not, reportedly sold the site for $ 20 million.

Ron Mock, a former Ontario Hydro Electrical engineer and founder of Phoenix Research and Trading, now oversees $ 171 billion in assets in more than 50 countries on behalf of 316,000 past and present teachers.

-- David Kalt, founder and CEO of Reverb, a marketplace for musical instruments and gear that has raised about $ 5 million in funding and expects to do $ 130 million in transactions this year, up from $ 40 million last year.

The Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship, named in honour of the Vega founder's $ 10 million gift in June 2016

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

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

-- Scott and Missy Tannen, founders of Boll & Branch, a New York - based company with a line of accessibly priced luxury bed linens that launched in January 2014 with first - year revenue topping $ 2 million and more than a $ 10 million run rate in its second year in business.

The founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, Gilbert is spearheading the revitalization of his native Detroit, investing $ 1.3 billion (and counting) to acquire and renovate more than 60 commercial properties occupying about 9 million square feet of Motor City real estate.

Top left to bottom: Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, co-founders of Ben & Jerryâ $ ™ s Homemade; Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company; Mary Kay Ash, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics; Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos

Generating $ 1 billion in sales for retailers, the founder of RewardStyle now realizes you can't please everyone.

-- Ethan Austin, founder of the online fundraising website Give Forward, which has raised more than $ 150 million and hosts 20,000 active fundraisers at any given time.

Since then, their Toronto - based startup, Viral Nation, has evolved into one of the largest social - media marketing firms in the world, on track to generate more than $ 15 million (U.S.) in 2018 sales, according to the founders.

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

There are guys like Dov Moran, founder of M - Systems which invented the flash drive and was bought by Sandisk for $ 1.5 billion.

Consider this one: In addition to contributing $ 3.4 million to help build the $ 17.4 million Will Rogers Equestrian Center in Fort Worth, Texas, John Justin Jr., founder of the eponymous cowboy boot maker, created The Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund, which provides financial aid to injured rodeo performers and their families.

A talented IBM junior executive once lost $ 10 million of company money in a risky venture, then slunk into company founder Tom Watson Sr.'s office expecting to be fired.

Andreessen agreed to invest $ 50 million of his venture firm's money in the deal on the bold assumption that he and Durban ultimately would win the founders» trust.

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

• PAG agreed to acquire the collective stakes from the three founders of Chinese industrial gas company Yingde Gases (SEHK: 2168) for $ 616 million, according to Reuters.

At just over $ 7.8 million in annual revenue, Buffer was averaging closer to $ 122,000 per worker this past fall, which the company needs to improve, says Carol Coughlin, founder of BottomLine Growth Strategies, a financial adviser to small and medium - size businesses.

Wood believes Tesla, with a current market value of around $ 56 billion, should be in the same league as the big four tech stocks due to Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX.

Things have certainly progressed since John Madden first sat down with EA founder Trip Hawkins to discuss bringing the sport of football to the videogame space, which at the time wasn't the $ 74 billion global pastime it is today.

Ron Carson is founder and CEO of Carson Wealth Management Group, with nearly $ 6 billion in assets under advisement.

Among the largest donors listed in «The Chronicle of Philanthropy» in the 2000 - 2009 period was Lorry I. Lokey, founder of Business Wire, which Berkshire acquired in 2005 for $ 600 million.