Sentences with phrase «founder of the company behind»

Dennis Mortensen, the CEO and founder of the company behind Amy, X.ai., has some brilliant anecdotes of people being fooled into thinking Amy was a real PA..

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We've pulled together some of the best advice from this year's 30 Under 30 Rising Star judges, who include: Phil Libin, a senior adviser at General Catalyst and co-founder of Evernote and All Turtles; Sarah Kauss, CEO and founder of designer - water - bottle company S'well; Spectacular Blue Smith, the social - media guru behind the Adwizar agency; and Jen Rubio, a 30 Under 30 alum and co-founder of luggage brand Away.

Cherae Robinson, founder and CEO of Tastemakers Africa, a mobile app for booking experiences in Africa, found it challenging to transition from running a bootstrapped company to one with outside capital behind it.

«I still feel like I'm behind enemy lines» as a founder turned investor, Busque said, «So I'll say this: I've learned that there are thousands of reasons why an investor won't invest in your company that have nothing to do with you.»

The founder of A2 Creative, a thriving brand management company, Adaora Mbelu - Dania's track record includes being behind Guinness» recent new product launch in its second largest market, Nigeria.

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

Jacques Bastien is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Boogie Group, the company behind boogie.co, shade.co and nappy.co.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

The company behind the app was started just 18 months ago in London by a sextet of founders: three cabbies and three financiers and tech experts.

«Just because the attacks original from China doesn't mean the people behind the attacks are Chinese or even physically in China,» Gideon Lenkey, founder of protection company Ra Security, told Internetevolution.com.

Because Hamid has seen the numbers behind a lot of successful SaaS startups, this yardstick is incredibly valuable for founders and executives of SaaS companies.

Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he'd tried to go behind their backs to arrange the deal without including them (not great diplomacy, because he was working for the co-founders at the time, as chief executive of video company Joost).

But that was the first bit of advice the 1,000 GROWCO attendees heard last week from Jason Fried, founder and CEO of Basecamp (formerly, 37 Signals), the company behind the popular Basecamp project management and collaborative software.

By Marta Jiménez - Lutter company profile Which Wich Superior Sandwiches www.whichwich.com Headquarters: Dallas Employees: 3,500 Specialty: Sandwiches Jeff Sinelli, founder and CEO: «[Our ordering system] gives the customer time to order the right sandwich, without the pressure of being in an assembly line system with people behind them.»

In fact, the company behind the food — which has received financial backing from the founders of Twitter and Silicon Valley venture capitalists KPCB — expects it to change the way we think about «meat» entirely.

CLM's restaurant division includes: Restaurant 1833, named one of Robb Report's 2012 «Best of the Best» and a James Beard Foundation 2012 «Best New Restaurant» nominee; Cannery Row Brewing Company, home to one of the largest draft and bottled craft beer selections in Central California; and is recognized as the founder and visionary behind Los Angeles» iconic Faith & Flower, which under CLM's leadership was an Esquire magazine national Best New Restaurant» honoree in 2014.

Happiness Boutique came into creation when the company's founders looked around and realized that very few brands out there have a strong sense of purpose behind them.

Full name: Jeanine Hays Age: 34 Current title / company: Creative Director and Founder, AphroChic & blogger behind AphroChic Educational background: Juris Doctorate from American University Washington College of Law; B.A. from Spelman College in Political Science

The panelists are Julie Spira, author of The Perils of Cyber-Dating and editor - in - chief at CyberDatingExpert.com; Jennifer Kelton, founder and CEO of the 5 year old social dating community Bad Online Dates; and Scott Lewallen is the co-founder and senior vice president of product & design of Grindr LLC, the company behind the Grindr and Blendr apps.

But the app will now be closing its doors tomorrow, Friday 7th April, Siren's founders thanking its dating community for standing behind the company and ensuring its mission was a «vital presence in the history of online dating.»

OPW INTERVIEW — Jan 20 — Arthur Radulescu is the CEO and founder of ASE Softnet, the company behind several quite popular internet dating and social networking sites.

The company's founder Michael Parikh explains that the main idea behind the service is «to make online dating more social and less awkward by bringing together pairs of friends instead of solo singles.»

We find Caleb (Domhnall, Gleeson), a relatively low - ranking programmer at Bluebook, the world's biggest internet search engine, as he wins an in - company competition for the prize of a lifetime, the opportunity to fly to the remote Alaskan estate of founder Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and spend a week with the reclusive genius (who wrote the code behind his golden goose when he was only 13).

Henrik Fisker, the founder and creative force behind the California - based car maker Fisker, has quit his position of executive chairman at the company, citing «several major disagreements with Fisker Automotive executive management on the business strategy».

Damon Freeman is the founder and creative director behind Damonza, a book cover design company that has provided services to thousands of authors including numerous New York Times bestsellers.

Yashar Behzadi and Greg Moon, the founders of Popslate, the eponymous company behind the popSLATE 2 secondary smart screen, explained that the company will be dissolved, no devices will be shipped, and no refunds will be issued.

Hear Randy Swan, Founder and Lead PM of Swan Global Investments, discuss his background and the founding of our the company in 1997, as well as, the philosophy and process behind our distinct, hedged - equity investment approach called the Defined Risk Strategy (DRS).

Created by Serge Dive and Sarah Ball, the Founders of Beyond Luxury Media and the creative minds behind the launch of arguably the world's two most successful high - end travel markets, PURE Life Experiences (PURE) and previously, International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM - now owned by a global exhibition company), their new show, LIMITED EDITION Miami Beach, will gather the most creative players in Contemporary Travel and drive the industry towards a more inspirational offering.

Over the course of 49 minutes, we dive deep with the founders behind two companies and follow them from their first pitch to a meeting with an honest - to - goodness venture capital firm.

For another example, Andy Rubin — the founder of Android, and before that one of the people behind the Sidekick phone — recently tweeted a teaser photo of another slick - looking, edge - to - edge device, presumably from the handset company he's working on, called Essential.

Dr Gideon Greenspan is the Founder and CEO of Coin Sciences, the company behind the popular MultiChainplatform for private Blockchains.

They're joined by David Cohen, founder and CEO of Techstars, as well as Paul Sieminski, general counsel to Auttomatic, which is the company behind the popular blogging platform Wordpress, among other signers.

Barry, founder of TeslaCoil, the company behind the hugely popular Nova Launcher, talked about the limitations that Google currently sets on the Google Now API.

Well, this week, the company's founder and CEO, Da Hongfei, took the stage at NEO's DevCon and outlined a number of initiatives designed to fuel growth going forward both for the platform and the company behind it.

«Circle's powerful take on Blockchain - powered social payments has attracted leading financial institutions and consumer Internet companies in China who are throwing their support behind the company's global vision for an open Internet of value exchange,» said Jim Breyer, Founder & CEO, Breyer Capital.

Yesterday I got a chance to talk to Gabe Adiv, founder and CEO of TuneUp Media, company behind the plug - in.

The journey between my role as a mergers and acquisitions attorney to founder and CEO of a social media SaaS company and manager of an investment firm may seem convoluted — and I'll admit, leaving law behind felt like jumping from a yellow brick road onto an uncharted dirt path at first.

The keynote address by Andrew Cimerman, founder and CEO of HomeLife Realty Services, focused on HomeLife's national and international growth, and its commitment to ensuring «no agent is left behind» — the company's mantra to ensuring every sales rep receives training, education, coaching and mentoring.