Sentences with phrase «many early investors»

Facebook was faced with — and evaded — similar questions about its relationship with Thiel when Forbes revealed the early investor in the social media network and member of its board was bankrolling a lawsuit that ultimately drove Gawker Media into bankruptcy.

One of our early investors told us the primary factor of whether we'd make it through this was simply our level of energy.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, also an early investor, retains a 3 % stake in the company.

We're just not,» says David Frankel, a managing partner with Founder Collective and an early investor in PillPack.

Thiel, an earlier investor in Facebook and creator of Founders Fund, and Y Combinator's Sam Altman are two of Silicon Valley's more outspoken voices and, when it comes to politics, they land in very different places.

Last month, Wilson, who is also chairman of Tech: NYC (and an early investor in Twitter (twtr) and MongoDB (mongodb)-RRB-, published his top ten reasons as to why Amazon should come to his hometown.

And its early investors rose right alongside it.

The company has also raised north of $ 200 million from VCs, making an IPO an attractive outcome for its earliest investors.

So Benchmark is setting things up where growing numbers of well - intentioned third parties, including early investor Shervin Pishevar, are demanding that it sell its Uber position, (lately worth about $ 8.4 billion), and get off the board.

WILMINGTON, Del., Feb 22 - Data analytics and security company Palantir Technologies Inc must open its books to early investor Marc Abramowitz, who wants to investigate possible fraud and mismanagement at one of the most highly valued private U.S. companies, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Now, with Spotify going public — Kutcher was also an early investor in the streaming music platform — he is excited, but with reservations.

It was a natural move for Gurbacs, an early investor in the ethereum network (he got into crypto back in 2013), whose academic interests in mathematics took him to Williams College, Harvard, and MIT.

WILMINGTON, Del., Feb 22 - Data analytics and security company Palantir Technologies Inc must open its books to early investor Marc Abramowitz, who wants to investigate possible fraud and mismanagement at the highly valued private U.S. company, a judge ruled on Thursday.

He was also an early investor in one of the hottest companies in China at the moment called Meituan, a local services platform often referred to as the Groupon of China.

Last March, it gave HootSuite $ 20 million, which HootSuite used to buy back stock from its early investors — «to align for a bigger win,» Holmes says.

In fact, Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's early investors, recently recalled Zuckerberg saying at the time, «I don't know what I could do with the money.

Thiel is probably best known for being an early investor in Facebook and a co-founder of PayPal.

Blekko's other $ 15 million comes from a group composed mostly of earlier investors: U.S Venture Partners, CMEA Capital and PivotNorth Capital.

Sacca was an early investor in Uber and a Kalanick confidante, but the relationship soured.

The reason might harken back to a control battle with one of Snap's earliest investors, venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Twitter's moneymaking potential has minted the company with an estimated market value of $ 10 billion, based on the appraisals of venture capitalists and other early investors.

Spotify ran an unusual offering — rather than issuing new shares, it got early investors to sell theirs.

«The business was going to go nowhere as long as it stayed in its small, noble niche,» says early investor and former board member Don Barton.

Early investors in the startup were U.S. Renewables Group and Rustic Canyon Partners.

It's worth noting that Felicis Ventures, which led the seed round, was also an early investor in Flexport, the «Uber of oceans.»

For my company, I successfully raised money from a handful of early investors who purchased stock using self - directed IRAs.

Suggestions so far include Tesla (Elon Musk was an early investor, not the founder), Zenefits (after the David Sacks clean - up, Jay Fulcher has continued on the road stability), Lending Club (the company's stock isn't doing much, but it managed to survive its governance scandal), and Etsy (despite its current activist investor trouble, the company thrived and went public under replacement Chad Dickerson).

Most of the earliest investors seem to be doing just that.

Shareholders will now have one vote per share, ending a class of supervoting shares in a move that substantially decreases the power of Kalanick and some other early investors.

The comments came on the heels of similarly dire remarks from billionaire Chris Sacca, one of the earliest investors in Twitter, who said that he now hates the company's stock and that its continued issue with «bots» or automated accounts on the platform is «embarrassing.»

The funding round was led by DST Global, the investment vehicle of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner who was an early investor of Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, and Airbnb, among others.

Doerr was one of the early investors in Twitter, but mentioned he was not consulted about the recent management shake up during the interview.

That would extend the amount of time before earlier investors and employees can cash out.

Mark Pincus, the founder of video game company Zynga Inc, must face a lawsuit alleging he unfairly benefited by selling $ 192 million of stock in 2012 when other early investors were under a lockup agreement, according to a court ruling.

In August she was a top contender to replace Travis Kalanick as CEO of Uber, in which Whitman was an early investor — a job that could have teed her up to eventually lead an unprecedented third Fortune 500 company.

As an early investor in E-Trade, Yahoo and China's Alibaba Group, and a bold risk - taker who recently bought 70 % of Sprint Nextel for $ 20 billion, you would never guess how Son grew up.

It all began in a Ruby Tuesday's restaurant in Times Square, where Meza met his victim, a business associate, who had earlier disclosed he was an early investor in Ethereum.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will turn into one of those legendary CEO's that we have seen like Bill Gates, like Larry Ellison, said Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber.

While we don't know exactly when the company will become public and what price the shares will be when it begins trading, we know some of the founders and earliest investors stand to get very rich.

Authorities said Platinum operated «like a Ponzi scheme» by using new money to fund redemptions by earlier investors, which were referred to internally as «Hail Mary time.»

Customers tend to fall into a few categories: early investors whose coins have soared in value; coin «mining» operations; and cryptocurrency business ventures, including other exchanges, hedge funds, and projects that have hosted «initial coin offerings.»

DST Global, a company that was early investors in Facebook and Spotify, led the funding round, which included other high profile venture capital firms Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital.

A few of my early investors came from my alma mater, and similarly, the majority of those involved in my current round of fundraising are alumni from my own and similar academic programs.

DST solves this problem for entrepreneurs by coming in and buying stock from these early investors and employees at very high valuations.

Instead, CASPESEN used investor funds for purposes that investors had not authorized, including to make securities trades in his own brokerage account and to make periodic interest payments to earlier investors.

Zuckerberg has also tried to maintain a diplomatic stance on Trump when it comes to Facebook's role in the election and his connection to Facebook board member and early investor Peter Thiel.

Rather, CASPERSEN operated a Ponzi - like scheme in which he misappropriated investor funds from the Fake Fund Accounts and converted them to his own use and use by others, including by using investor funds to meet CASPERSEN's periodic interest payment commitments to earlier investors.

Backed by blue - chip venture capitalists, including Accel Partners (an early investor in Facebook), Wonga looks destined to go public at some point, either on the Nasdaq or in London.

(Google's venture arm GV was an early investor and participated in this round.)

His company, Greylock Partners, was an early investor in a staggering number of top tier companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Airbnb.