Sentences with phrase «later sold it to»

Holding a Ph.D. in information systems, Smith's mother worked in academia before starting a paper - craft company, which she later sold to a private equity firm.

He launched SoftKey Software Products from his basement in 1983, and later sold it to Mattel Toy Company for $ 3.7 billion.

They later sold it to the company American Golf.

Barrett was previously the chief executive of Millennial Media, which later sold to AOL (now part of Verizon) and was also previously at the helm of AdMeld (which later sold to Google) as well as chief revenue officer at Yahoo.

In 2007 he cofounded Plum Organics, a fast - growing children's food brand that was later sold to Campbell Soup for $ 249 million.

His corporate creations have included Asylum Records in 1971 (which he later sold to Warner Communications); Geffen Records in 1980 (which he sold to MCA for $ 550 million); and DreamWorks SKG (of which he's the «G») in 1994.

The man knows people; he has held top positions at Compaq and 3Com and worked as an entrepreneur - in - residence at the Mayfield Fund before founding a software company that was later sold to Cisco.

Heinz has dabbled in its own riskier plays in the past — for instance, buying into pet food (9Lives and Kibbles»n Bits) and canned tuna (StarKist), businesses it later sold to Del Monte.

Michael also developed network routing technology at Microsoft, and search engine technology at Zip2, which later sold to AltaVista for $ 300M.

And then after that I started my first company that I later sold to IBM.

And she also has the experience of working for Launch Media, which started in 1999 and was later sold to Yahoo, when the search engine provider was at its peak.

Comcast made a similar move several years ago when it bought up wireless spectrum and later sold it to Verizon.

We took the company private, improved the business, and three years later sold it to Tosco, an oil company, earning our investors a more than quadrupled return on their money.

In 1999, at the age of 24, Spencer co-founded Hotwire.com, a leading Internet travel company, which a few years later he sold to InterActiveCorp (the parent company of Expedia).

At the Shot Show in particular, you might go around with a video camera and shoot interviews to later sell to the businesses as a marketing asset.

Having also co-founded an entry - level employment service in 1995 (JobDirect, later sold to Korn Ferry International in 2000), she has long been passionate about helping people find jobs that make their lives better, and she is thrilled that her own experience as a working mom is now helping others who want or need work flexibility.

He also co-founded Generation Health, the first Genetic - testing Benefits Manager (GBM), which was later sold to CVS Caremark.

Having also co-founded an entry - level employment service in 1995 (JobDirect, later sold to Korn Ferry International in 2000), she has long been passionate about helping people find jobs that make their lives better.

Bearman got his real start in the industry in 1968 when he opened a distribution company in Saint Paul, Minn., called United Food Service Supply, which he later sold to CFS Continental.

Skinny Vine builds on the success of other low - calorie brands such as the Skinnygirl ready - to - drink range of cocktails, created in 2009 by TV reality show queen Bethenny Frankel and later sold to spirits company Beam Global for an estimated $ US64 million.

«The company to this day is a tribute to the first family business started by Evris Kontos, a fillo dough company that Kontos later sold to Pillsbury,» explained Steve Kontos.

In 1997 he bought a young player called Anelka for # 300K from PSG and 2 years later sold him to Real Madrid for # 23M.

Yaya Toure eventually signed for FC Barcelona before he was then later sold to Manchester City by Pep Guardiola.

Six years later they sold it to wealthy Dutch - American merchant Adolphus Philipse, who obtained a Royal sanction for a «Highland Patent» (later to be known as the Philipse Patent) that encompassed most of today's Putnam County.

The younger Vinit Bharara, 45, is behind a scattering of web startups, such as Quidsi, the original parent company for Diapers, Wag and Soap.com that was later sold to Amazon.

BUSINESS INSIDER - May 20 - After establishing online furniture site Zanui in Australia, founder Dean Kelly went to San Fran and met his future business partner, Justin Parfitt, who at the time was working on high - end speed dating events called Fast Impressions which he later sold to POF.

In 1999, Mark helped develop Hypermatch, a dating site that was later sold to EZBoard.

Match and FriendFinder integrated Jangl (which was later sold to Jajah).

It was eventually carted off to longtime Ford racing partner Holman Moody with other assets after Ford ended the Shelby Mustang program in 1969 and later sold to a private owner.

The town, which was named after Bristol, England, was permanently settled in 1680 and later sold to four Boston investors.

(Fortunoff was later sold to the owner of Lord & Taylor.)

He later sold them to VCA Animal Hospitals in 1980.

During those years, he built two stationary practices, which he later sold to a corporation.

Heinz Company bought the brand in 1995 and it was later sold to Del Monte.

The Estate was later sold to 20th Century Fox and was used to entertain the Hollywood Elite of yesteryear.

Having previously created over 100 titles across 29 platforms, he also formed Shiny Entertainment, which he later sold to Atari.

Among those smart moves was Miro's showing of the Disasters of War series in 1993, the first solo show by Jake and Dinos Chapman, which she later sold to the Tate.

Lawyer by degree with a specialization in Digital Law, Renata became an entrepreneur in digital market founding one of the first women's accessories online stores in Brazil, later sold to an investor.

Much earlier the business was Oyez Publishing, then owned by the Solicitors» Law Stationery Society; it was later sold to Pearson.

Most payments are due 90 days prior to the trip and there are no refunds if you cancel within a certain time - frame (although you may get 30 % back if your seat is later sold to someone else).

Following AIG's financial difficulties, 21st Century Insurance was later sold to the Farmers Insurance Group.

Before Homuth launched Sheerly Genius, she co-founded ShopLocket, which later sold to PCH International.

For instance, Cukier and Mayer - Schonberger's book, elaborates how AI researcher Oren Etzioni developed Farecast (later sold to Microsoft, and now a part of Bing Travel) to scrap data from the Internet to make accurate guesses about whether airline fare would rise or fall.

In addition to Blake, who was a founding member of the ed tech startup Zinch (which was later sold to Chegg), Degreed's founding team includes David Wiley, an associate professor at Brigham Young University's David O. McKay School of Education and an education entrepreneur.

Then there's Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, who bought headphone maker Beats and later sold it to Apple for a stunning $ 3 billion.

Data scraped by that app from Facebook was allegedly later sold to Cambridge Analytica, the American company set up to work on U.S. political campaigns.

In addition, Steem is completely decentralized; this means there is no governing body that censors or stores user information to later sell to companies.

The building was later sold to investor Harry Helmsley, who put his name on it.

Sandy Point was later sold to Eugene Cost of Egypt and when he died, to Louis Cadesky, a famed breeder of imported Hereford cattle from Scotland.

The ranch was later sold to Rudolf Schulte, a master German watchmaker turned medical technology pioneer and philanthropist.