Sentences with phrase «founder of a company called»

Take, for example, Orrin Woodward, the founder of a company called Life Leadership.

One of the first participants is Clay Hebert, founder of a company called Crowdfunding Hacks.

Today's guest is Sheri Gazitt, founder of a company called «Teen Wise» which focuses on teen issues like bullying, perfectionism, stress and friendship issues.

She is the designer and founder of her company called Baby Moon, which makes multifunctional products for babies.

The founders of a company called Genesis Illumination hope police officers will soon be reaching for a StunRay instead of a gun or Taser.

Ben: Hey podcast listeners, this is Ben Greenfield and I'm here today with a gentleman on the other line who's the founder of a company called Rock Tape and I'm going to let him tell you what Rock Tape is all about.

He is the founder of a company called BIOHM, which is a great probiotic, so we're going to spend some time talking about probiotics.

Crouch and Snell were founders of a company called Mediabadger in 2011.

Not exact matches

I feel like a Navy Seal called in to somehow covertly free the company from the shackles of it's founder.

In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

«We are really happy with the results of the first quarter,» Steven Boal, founder and chief executive of Coupons.com, said, in a conversation after the company's first earnings call earlier this month.

In contrast, before the company founders of the»80s started their businesses, they were generally involved with activities removed from their companies - to - be — Anita Roddick owned a small hotel in Littlehampton, England, and was raising two young daughters; Yvon Chouinard saw mountain climbing as a calling.

Musk, 46, has built up a showman's reputation as the founder and chief executive officer of Tesla (tsla), calling on true believers to help him overcome the «haters» who question his company's ability to usher in an electric - vehicle age on an ambitious timetable.

Stephen Brudner, the founder of Merchant Services Consulting Group who helps companies find merchant payment processors, says that in February, all of a sudden, dozens of small businesses were calling him to see if he could help their business get back on a payment processors.

What you can do: Encourage employees to tweet with their own personal voice rather than taking on a scripted tone — a strategy Peter Shankman, founder of the New York - based consulting firm Shankman / Honig and author of Nice Companies Finish First (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) calls «shredding the scripts.»

It's called Founder's Syndrome: an originator maintaining disproportionate control of the company they started while someone else is nominally in charge.

What makes the 401 (k) so complicated is something called «discrimination testing,» which consists of federal rules designed to ensure the company isn't giving better retirement benefits to its most highly paid workers, including executives and founders.

The presentation also called out Mick McGuire, Marcato's founder and head, for his «track record of losses in the boardroom,» citing his tenure on the boards of NCR, a consumer technology company, and Borders, the now defunct bookstore.

According to company founder Tal Raviv, once the revamped service goes live later this month, members can log onto the DropCard website to see which parts of their profile information new contacts clicked on, data they can use to do follow up phone calls or e-mails.

But to every rule there is an exception, and glad I was to be called out (and called up) by the founder and CEO of one mobile - health company whose entire premise is based on scientific research with repeatable results — the exact study, in fact, I had used as my example of what works better than a health app.

This fall, the company — doubtlessly aware that young people distrust brands that don't give back and eager to signal its commitment to gender equality — launched what it calls the 50/50 Founders» Fund, donating a dollar from each sale to a pool of seed money evenly distributed between startups led by men and women.

When asked about regulations they'd like to see eliminated, changed or created, many of the founders of companies on the first - ever CNBC Upstart 25 list called for regulations they'd like to see created, not stripped away.

He certainly never imagined that he'd be onstage at the World Economic Forum, where founder Klaus Schwab would tell him that «the prime minister of quite an important country» recently called Alphabet (Google's parent company) one of the four powers left in the world.

Davaadorj, who is founder of an organic skin care line called LHAMOUR out of Mongolia, was partnered with reusable water bottle company S'well as part of the program.

In the early days of Amy's Kitchen, founder Andy Berliner got a few calls a year from large companies looking to purchase the budding maker of natural frozen foods.

«Growing a modern media company, it was important to call on the advice of seasoned people,» said Derek Riedle, founder, CEO and publisher at Civilized, a distinctive industry publication aimed at elevating cannabis culture.

I spoke to Katelyn O'Shaughnessy, a fellow startup founder who just launched a company that does all of the trip planning for you in a mobile app, for free, called TripScope.

Nick Graham, founder of Joe Boxer, gives his singular take on the art of calling attention to yourself and your company.

On a recent episode of my podcast Problem Solvers (find on iTunes or any podcast platform), I talked to the founder of a music licensing company called Musicbed that did just that.

The other day I read an interesting book called Entrepreneurial DNA, by Joe Abraham, the founder of BOSI Global, an operating partner to venture - backed and owner - operated companies.

CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, SOCIAL CAPITAL FOUNDER & CEO: When you think about how sticky something is, the most important thing to look at is this concept called churn which is how fast are people leaving the service, and specifically, you can look at companies leaving the service or the amount of dollars that you «re losing.

«Tesla's results and Elon's demeanor on the call definitely rattled investors,» said George Schultze, founder of Schultze Asset Management, which oversees about $ 100 million and is shorting the company's stock.

Anand Janefalkar, founder and chief executive officer of UJET, says the company gives equal priority to all channels, so customers get the same quality of service whether they start an in - app chat or call an 1 - 800 number.

A member of our DD team will lead a call with the founder and other relevant team members to take a deeper dive into the business and the company's financials.

Soon after the results were released, the company's stock price plunged to its lowest level in a decade and a number of small shareholders called for the resignation of Karl - Johan Persson, chief executive and grandson of the company's founder.

This founder, whom we'll call Tom Green, said that while exact dollar amounts and percentages fluctuated slightly based on how many founders a company had and how experienced those founders were (younger founders lost 1 percent or 2 percent more in equity for the same amounts of money), most of the deals were structured to favor Y Combinator with the assumption that most of the teams were just starting out and were likely to fail.

Today, he's the Founder of an AR company called BlendAR.

The Facebook founder has adamantly resisted any calls to give up control of the company, telling The Atlantic in an interview this morning that he had not considered resigning because he's «very confident that we're gonna be able to work through these issues.»

Bruce Welty, the founder of a fulfillment company that ships more than $ 1 billion of ecommerce orders each year and another company called Locus Robotics that sells warehouse robots, says he thinks the threat to jobs from the latter is overblown — especially as the rise of ecommerce creates more demand for warehouse workers.

Through this Founder's Mentality 100 initiative, or what we call FM100, we believe that we will be helping companies over the next several years become the next generation of growth leaders globally, and thereby meeting Bain and Company's mission to help our clients redefine their industry.

George Zimmer, the founder of Men's Wearhouse, has started a new company called Generation Tux, an e-retailer that is a tux rental service.

Aileen Lee, from an interview in January: Do you see any diversity, in terms of female founders and CEOs, among the billion - dollar venture - backed companies you call unicorns?

Brian Kelly, founder and chief executive Officer of digital asset investment firm BKCM called the automakers» effort «very, very interesting» because it adds a fresh battleground for technology companies.

Thomas H. Lee, founder of cross-town rival Thomas H. Lee Partners, calls the company's performance under Romney «one of the great stories of American capital.»

As founder and president of a company called International Initiatives, my work is aimed at building relationships among Christian leaders in the West and among Muslim leaders in the Middle East.

The founder of American snacks company Guiltless Gourmet has announced the launch of a new company called Right Brothers Foods in Austin, Texas, which aims to tap into demand for healthy snack foods.

Gary Fallowes, founder / CEO and product inventor, named the company in honor of his grandfather who started a family business called Metro Envelope Corp. in 1930.

Jim Harbaugh shared the following videos of the phone calls between Charles Woodson (Ohio State game), Adam Schefter (Cincinnati) and Tom Kartsotis (Founder of the watch company Fossil for Florida) about being honorary Michigan captains in 2017.

Julie Hawksley, R.N., IBCLC — postpartum nurse and board certified lactation consultant at Kaiser Permanente, and founder of Call the LC, an independent lactation consultant service for parents, companies, and healthcare providers in San Francisco

Still, from the phone records in the FBI affidavit, parts of which are up on the Smoking Gun, it didn't seem like it was a woman - friendly workplace, from the male founder who said that a would - be call girl «looks like a butcher in my opinion» to the conversation about the «baggage» a worker with kids has to the outraged indignation of an applicant who was «shock and confuse» that the company expected its employees to have sex with men who don't even take them out to dinner.