Sentences with phrase «into multibillion dollar»

During the 1990s, wind power took off and grew into a multibillion dollar industry.

Keaton plays Kroc, the guy who transforms a small chain of fast - food restaurants into the multibillion dollar McDonald's Corp..

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That technology today has blossomed into a multibillion - dollar industry that's just getting started.

Founder Drew Houston has grown the cloud - storage company into a multibillion - dollar business at an incredibly fast pace.

By honestly assessing their strengths and their shortcomings, they found a technology partner to help them build their ideas into a multibillion - dollar business that was acquired by Man Group in 2014.

Guzmán's Sinaloa organization, a multibillion - dollar operation, is «the dominant [transnational criminal organization] along the West Coast, through the Midwest, and into the Northeast.»

It's possible to imagine Estonia's idea becoming a multibillion - dollar business in the years ahead — turning the whole view of government as a bureaucracy offering public services into an entity generating profits.

The downturn has cut into profits at U.S. casino operators such as Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Wynn Resorts Ltd., which have multibillion - dollar projects in the pipeline.

The online retailer grew into a multibillion - dollar company based on the reputation and power of its unique organizational personality.

Dalio also explained how he built Bridgewater Associates, the company he created in 1975, into a multibillion - dollar hedge fund.

Meg Whitman led eBay for 10 years, building what was essentially a startup with a handful of employees into a multibillion - dollar corporation by the time she left in 2008.

A share sale by San Francisco - based Dropbox, one of a closely watched group of high - profile private tech companies with multibillion - dollar valuations, would follow Snap Inc.'s disappointing step into the public markets.

Ryan Cotton, the Bain managing director who led the investment, identifies three strengths that he believes will make Toms, one day, a multibillion - dollar public company: its reputation as a philanthropic pioneer, its enthusiastic customers (who may want to become shareholders), and its potential to expand beyond footwear into a broad lifestyle brand.

The Queen City is the crown jewel in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's multibillion - dollar business - development strategy to revitalize economically depressed Upstate New York by turning it into a 21st - century manufacturing powerhouse.

Nor did she step into another corner office at a multibillion - dollar company.

Financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic imposed multibillion - dollar fines on five global banks Wednesday as part of investigations into rigging of key foreign exchange markets.

«I'll tell you what I told our investors: We never signed on to building a two - year business,» Goldberg said when asked whether Fab, with the help of Hem, had the potential to grow into the multibillion - dollar business he promised them.

Of course, the value of a true early entry into one of the massive multibillion - dollar unicorns — perhaps they should be called «thunder lizard» unicorns?

Dating services make up a multibillion - dollar market, and Ginsberg said she sees room to further expand into new markets: in India, for example, where the stigma around online dating is beginning to erode.

As a corporate accountant and financial analyst for nearly a decade, I spent my workdays looking into the details of products at multibillion dollar companies.

Companies wouldn't keep making them if they didn't — just look at how home shopping has skyrocketed QVC into a multibillion - dollar business.

The Hualong One, developed by two state - owned companies, is one multibillion - dollar facet of the Communist Party's aspirations to transform China into a creator of profitable technology from mobile phones to genetics.

It is seeking to break into a multibillion - dollar market segment typically populated by women who enjoy a drink but are watching their weight.

This term has entered the lexicon and this segment has quickly grown into a multibillion - dollar industry of its own with potentially significant implications for other Kona commodities as demand and awareness expand.

It's imperative that our pension and health benefits be significantly increased so players like me, who helped make the NFL into the multibillion - dollar cash cow that it is today, not be forgotten.

We have managed to provide an annual multibillion dollar industry straight into organised crime internationally, fuelling terrorist networks.

The elder Mr. Kushner built the family's real estate business into a multibillion - dollar empire of apartments and land until he was sent to federal prison in 2005 for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign donations, many of them to Democratic candidates.

Despite a multibillion - dollar bid - rigging scheme implicating some of his closest associates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to shift the focus to an ambitious infrastructure program — a $ 1.6 billion plan to transform the historic Farley Post Office into a world - class transportation hub that would entail revamping Penn Station, which he called the «train version» of LaGuardia Airport.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

To fully utilize the long - awaited James Webb Space Telescope, researchers will have to squeeze a generation of scientific studies into the multibillion - dollar observatory's short lifetime

In the coming months, the multibillion - dollar laser built into a customised Boeing 747 will try to shoot a ballistic missile as it rises above the clouds.

It is committed to supply major backing for the proposed multibillion - dollar Atlantic Wind Connection, which hopes to deploy an offshore backbone transmission system to deliver energy from wind farms into mid-Atlantic states.

Yet although horse racing has grown into an international multibillion dollar industry, racehorse breeding still relies on the same tools as it has for the past 300 years: pedigree charts, and trial and error.

Both companies, as well as seed firm Monsanto, based in St Louis, Missouri, are also working on transgenic maize varieties, hoping to tap into a multibillion - dollar market (see Nature 466,548 - 551; 2010).

When most people heard about the recent report suggesting that astronauts have flown under the influence, I'm sure they worried about NASA's culture, the procedures of spaceflight, and the idea of putting multibillion - dollar pieces of hardware into the hands of boozehounds.

WSJ - Feb 14 - The transformation of a once - taboo market into a multibillion - dollar industry is the subject of a new book by Dan Slater - «Love in the Time of Algorithms».

If you need to send a rather special letter, our in - house translators will translate it for you into Russian for free, please visit our Support page for that — don't trust your valuable thoughts to machine translators, if any of them was any good the multibillion dollar translation industry would have ceased to exist by now.

There have been, of course, winners and losers on both sides throughout this long discussion, as our high schools have grown into multibillion - dollar institutions serving, or ill serving, hundreds of millions of American adolescents.

Microsoft has created a multibillion - dollar market with the Xbox, the premiere gaming console that has evolved into a leading entertainment delivery device.

With the crash looming and layoffs inevitable, Sophie's attractive but ruthless boss Ethan Pearce pulls her into a multibillion - dollar merger that could make or break their careers.

How a call for social action became a patriotic holiday, then turned into a multibillion - dollar industry.

They were about to move into a new multibillion - dollar world that had virtually no regulation — a burgeoning Wild West of gambling centered on a game they'd spent countless hours playing online, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

The business of bankrolling lawsuits has mushroomed from a niche practice into a worldwide, multibillion - dollar industry in less than a decade.

Barclays has faced intense public scrutiny in recent years: from the Serious Fraud Office's investigation into the bank's # 12bn fundraising at the height of the financial crisis, which resulted in criminal charges against the bank and former executives relating to a # 2.3 bn loan Barclays provided to Qatar, a multibillion - dollar legal battle with the US Department of Justice over allegedly - fraudulent mortgages and a New York currency trading probe that ended in a $ 150m settlement.

However, a multibillion - dollar balance sheet rarely translates into a limitless war chest to pursue legal disputes.

As an insurance startup, we're excited to be in the Big Apple not just because it situates us next to some of the biggest insurance and financial institutions in the world — being close by is handy when we're trying to bring them into the 21st century digital world — but also the best and brightest minds who are creating new tools, discovering new ways to do things, and disrupting entire multibillion dollar industries.