Sentences with phrase «known as the founder»

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

«From the start we had a bigger vision of disrupting the digital and media industries,» says CEO Rory Armes, better known as the founder Radical Entertainment, for many years the No. 2 video game studio in Vancouver behind Electronic Arts (it was sold to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2005 and reduced to a software support office in 2012).

Musk, best known as the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has also launched The Boring Company, whose mission is to dig tunnels under traffic - clogged cities (such as his hometown of Los Angeles) where underground conveyer belts will whisk cars from one side of town to the other.

Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby.

Jeff Fort is an American criminal best known as the founder and leader of the Black P. Stone Nation gang.

Known as the founder of three energy companies, Chauvco Resources Ltd., Western Oil Sands Inc. and Veresen Inc, Turcotte is currently the sole shareholder in Stone Creek Resorts and is a founding shareholder of Field Upgrading Limited, a Calgary - based company applying new materials and processes to upgrading oil.

Sheena Allen is best - known as the founder and CEO of mobile application company, Sheena Allen Apps, and fintech company, CapWay.

You might know him as the founder of Slack.

Since Benjamin Ginsberg perfected the making of rooibos [or redbush] tea and became known as the Founder of Rooibos, we have continued to offer pure, exquisite and often rare teas from China, India, Japan, as well as Africa.

Best known as the founders of California Pizza Kitchen, the duo has more than 25 years of experience leading one of the world's most recognizable restaurant brands.

Florence Nightingale is known as the founder of modern nursing.

To celebrate our great history we have decided that December 12, Mount Snow's birthday, will be known as Founders Day!

Random and unbidden, the mutation appeared on the chromosome of a single person, who is known as the founder.

But the idea of single - subject research didn't really make the leap to medicine of the body until the early 1980s when Gordon Guyatt, a Canadian physician now known as a founder of evidence - based medicine, began working in an interdisciplinary department at McMaster University in Ontario, with psychologists, biostatisticians, ethicists and clinical epidemiologists all working together.

He is best known as the founder of Rotary Rocket, which built a landing test simulator for a reusable rocket that flew three successful flights in 1999.

While many of you might know me as the founder of Jivamukti Yoga, I'm also an avid animal - rights and vegan activist.

As a businessman, he is known as founder of the Bloomberg cofounded financial information and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981.

Christopher Null was born in Houston, Texas, and is best known as the founder of Filmcritic.com in 1995, and one of the founding members of the Online Film Critics Society in 1997.

with Kam Williams Headline: Renaissance RZA While best known as the founder, producer, and mastermind behind the Wu - Tang Clan, RZA has built an incredibly diverse and successful career as a musician, a composer of film scores, a producer, an actor, a businessman, a player and advocate of chess, and as the author of the best - selling The Tao of Wu and The Wu - Tang Manual.

He's best known as the founder of Rustici Software, where he advanced SCORM market adoption and developed its next - generation standard, the xAPI.

Natalie is best known as the Founder and Editor - in - Chief of She Takes on the World, which received international attention when it was listed by Forbes in «Top 10 Entrepreneurial Sites for Women.»

Maathai was best known as the founder of the Green Belt Movement (GBM), an initiative to plant trees in forested areas of Kenya that were being stripped for commercial expansion.

The sixth 2007 Independent Games Summit lecture to go up is actually another of my personal favorites, because it's sharp, sensible, and brutally honest - it features Russell Carroll, who indie sceners probably know as the founder of GameTunnel.com, a seminal indie game site.

Craig Fletcher is best known as the founder and CEO of Multiplay, the esports and digital infrastructure firm that was sold to UK High Street retailer GAME in 2015.

Gunfire Games was founded by David Adams, known as the founder of Vigil Games, the studio responsible for Darksiders and its sequel.

He is internationally known as the founder of The Institute for Human Activities, a research project at KASK — University College of Ghent.

Known as the founder of «sculpture as environment,» Ferber created one of the first fully - immersive sculptural installations, which was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1961.

[1] He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism.

Somewhat to her chagrin, she became known as a founder of pop art, a 1960s movement led by Andy Warhol that emphasized detachment and irony.

Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980s design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti.

A prominent social figure and a member of the fabulously wealthy Vanderbilt family, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is best known as the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

Barnett Newman (1905 - 70) Better known as a founder of Colour Field painting Broken Obelisk (1969) Cor - Ten steel abstract piece, Museum of Modern Art, New York

ELMER BISCHOFF is best known as a founder of Bay Area figuration, along with his close friends and colleagues Richard Diebenkorn and David Park.

These days McKibben is known as the founder of 350.org «an international climate campaign ``.

Yvon is best known as the founder and owner of Patagonia, an outdoor clothing company, with over $ 240 million USD in annual sales.

Christian Beck, best known as the founder of Leap Legal, a back - office solution, recently raised $ 350 million to grow both Leap and his latest venture InfoTrack, which provides a suite of tools for personal, property and company searches for the legal industry.

Clayton is also known as the Founder of the Cryptocurrency Collectors Club (CCC).

The South Surrey / White Rock Realtor is best known as the founder of FVREB's Realty Watch program, which is a community crime prevention program now embraced by thousands of Realtors across B.C..

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Lauren Berger is the founder and CEO of InternQueen.com, a free internship / career website and known as «The Intern Queen».

For those not familiar with the show, it's important to know in the beginning of season 3, the awkward yet assertive founder, Richard Hendrix, is replaced as CEO of his own company by Jack Barker.

In June 2007 the founders of what was then known as Twttr entertained a buyout offer from Yahoo.

But she'd grown up knocking on strangers» doors as a Jehovah's Witness (she no longer practices), and had no qualms about randomly reaching out to founders and investors and offering to help in any way she could.

«When new clients say they eat clean, I know that what they are doing is elevating certain types of food (e.g. organic, locally - sourced) as «good» and «clean» while demonizing all other food as «bad,»» Brittany Markides, dietitian and founder of the Choose Food nutrition counseling service, told INSIDER.

As reported on Inc., seventy - eight percent of women startup founders say they have been harassed or know someone who was.

But as the founder of her own consulting firm and a longtime blogger, she is also a practitioner, which means she knows not only what is supposed to work but also what actually does.

Waymo accuses Uber and Otto of stealing data Otto founder Anthony Levandowski worked for Google's self driving car unit, now known as Waymo.

Since the third century BC the man, myth and legend known variously as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, La Befana, Yule Tomten and Christkindli has been an amazing entrepreneur each and every startup founder can learn from.

«As the parents of young children, we know what it means to want to do everything you can to give them the healthiest start possible,» Honest Co.'s founders said in a blog post published over the weekend.

«I heard 99 nos,» she says — which, of course, is typical for many a founder — before she gained investors such as Blumberg Capital and TMT Investments (she bought them out after the IPO).

My greatest challenge as the self - funded founder was not letting a «no» get me down personally.