Sentences with phrase «old founder of the company»

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Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

Unlike many subordinates, he didn't owe his career to RIM, and happened to be 13 years older than Lazaridis, giving him the confidence to tell the founder of the company that he was wrong.

Geoff Wilson, the founder and President of 352 Inc., an 18 year - old company that began in his dorm room and has grown to a multi-state digital product development powerhouse, credits 352 Inc.'s success on the organization's adoption of agile methodologies to all aspects of the business from coding to management.

The 78 - year - old founder of the Calgary - based cable company doubled down on his company this year.

The founders of a number of NYC startups, including Warby Parker, Birchbox, Flatiron Health, Seamless, Sweetgreen, and Doumar and Cerilli's old company, SinglePlatform, have all invested in the startup.

The 29 - year - old founder of Hater, a dating app that connects people based on mutual dislikes, recently took something of a risk: His company created an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin caressing a pregnant Donald Trump and projected it on buildings throughout New York City.

As if there weren't enough roiling the company, it will have to contend with the return early next year of its 71 - year - old founder, who owns 85 % of the business.

Veteran entrepreneur Celeste Hilling, CEO and founder of 10 - year - old lifestyle company Skin Authority, stumped me with this question a few weeks ago, but she definitely left me with something to think about.

Accustomed to the nurturing and guidance of their parents, Gen - Y entrepreneurs are receptive to the advice of older, successful company founders who were minted in droves during the»80s and»90s.

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Most venture - capital firms — Sequoia included — are used to the old equity model in which investors purchase private shares of a company, often while mentoring the founders to help the company reach its full potential.

This eleven - year - old file - sharing and content - management company was Inc.'s 2013 Company of the Year — and now it's made the 2017 Founders 10 list by keeping its focus company was Inc.'s 2013 Company of the Year — and now it's made the 2017 Founders 10 list by keeping its focus Company of the Year — and now it's made the 2017 Founders 10 list by keeping its focus narrow.

But since 2008, the 43 - year old founder of the pest control company Bugs Are Gone has been visiting both state and federal penitentiaries, mentoring people on how to become business owners.

In fact, the 87 - year - old founder, long since retired from the board, has made a sport of trolling management at the company he started.

Sean Gourley, the founder and CEO of Primer, a 2.5 - year - old, previously media - shy startup that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to parse vast quantities of data and spit out pithy, navigable digests, is demonstrating his company's software for me in a midtown Manhattan office near the United Nations» headquarters.

What a difference from the traditional state of affairs that most growing businesses have been forced to deal with: no money at all for start - ups or companies that were too small or too old or too dependent on their founders or even too needy for cash (that is, unless they happened to fit onto the investment community's shortlist of sexy companies du jour).

Geer, the founder and president of Connecticut River Interactive LLC, a two - year - old Internet - development company, completed a deal for a $ 100,000 financing package from the Small Business Administration during the final days of October, «right in the middle of all that chaos,» he recalls.

The founders of the three - year - old dads group, Rob Lanoue and Andrew Hamer, use words like «negotiate,» and speak about an increasing «war for talent» that makes it an economic must for companies like Deloitte to accommodate parents.

Ben Kirshner, the company's 39 - year - old founder and chief executive, doesn't mince words: «One of my greatest frustrations when I was 21 was that I wasn't getting paid what people with more experience were being paid,» he says.

A close study of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos reveals one of the world's most innovative companies is rooted in one of the oldest ideas.

We carry on the legacy of GE founder Thomas Edison in how we have transformed GE into a digital industrial company, truly making it the 124 year - old - start - up,» said Jeff Immelt.

In an interview this week, Philz CEO Jacob Jaber, the 27 - year - old son of Philz founder Phil Jaber, told me that the new money will be used in part to help fuel the company's geographic expansion.

We carry on the legacy of GE founder Thomas Edison in how we have transformed GE into a digital industrial company, truly making it the 124 year - old - start - up.

In what is likely to be a heated argument over the legacy of Uber's lightning rod of a founder and former CEO, attorneys for both Travis Kalanick and one of the car - hailing company's largest investors, Benchmark Capital, will square off in the first oral argument in the month - old case.

Adrian Scott, founder and chief executive of business networking site Ryze, said his 3 - year - old company started turning a profit last year — without venture backing.

Prior to MyLumper, he served as the Director of Logistics for the largest seed and garden company in the nation, followed by his next role as Founder and CEO of Track Logistics Group, which he held for 10 years before developing the electronic payment based company that offers the solution to an age - old stressor in the trucking industry.

Old photographs such as the horse - drawn carriages in front of the original Autry Greer & Sons» grocery warehouse in downtown Mobile, Ala., adorn the store walls of the popular Southeast supermarket chain, paying homage to the family patriarch and company founder.

This exhibit was designed as a replica of the first American Optical company «spectacle shop» in Southbridge, Massachusetts, where George Washington Wells, father of the founders of Old Sturbridge Village began manufacturing eyeglasses in the late 1800s.

Stephen L. Green, the 80 - year - old founder and chairman of SL Green Realty Corp., one of New York City's largest commercial landlords, will be stepping down from his position as chairman of the board, the company announced.

Now this 43 - year - old mom, a founder of Bjort & Company and creator of The Eye Patch Kids DVD, lives with her husband, Chrysa, 13, and Joshua, 8, in Bradenton, Fla..

And from the «Clean Eating» discussion including Miranda Hammer from the blog Crunchy Radish, chef Camille Becerra, and Colin McGabe, the founder of the 15 - year - old salad company Chop «t, here are the four things I learned that we should all know about the future of clean eating:

With ECC, it's best of both worlds: top - tier curriculum that's in sync with the bigger, older «name brand» institutions, together with the personal support and positive energy that comes from a younger, smaller company whose founder and initial founding faculty are completely hands - on.

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.

Moonit offers alternative to other online dating sites — Moonit, launched in 2009, is geared mostly toward «the Facebook generation,» the 13 - to 24 - year - old demographic that might normally steers clear of more traditional dating websites, company founders said.

The 64 - year - old Brit, founder of the Recorded Picture Company, has been a big wheel on the indie film scene for nearly 40 years.

The grandson of the original founder, Charles controls approximately 25 % of the 108 - year - old company's shares but was dismissed from his position as strategy director after four counts of misconduct were bought against him in October 2013.

Barnes and Noble put itself up for sale, and New York Magazine just ran a touching profile of the company's founder, 69 - year - old Leonard Riggio.

Robert Immerman, an investor in Splash, is the founder and CEO of InterDesign, a 43 year old consumer products company with over 300 Employees, located in Solon and Glenwillow Ohio.

«The key is really to be special with the merchandise,» says Mark Hirschberg, president and founder of the 18 - year - old company.

The judges included a corporate CEO, an IT professional with a major broadcasting company, a former owner of two vocational schools and the founder / owner of two 30 - year - old businesses.

you have one of the largest companies in the world whos founder is a devout charity giver and your only rival is a failing sony and you bring us this old world excuse.

65 year old veteran (born in 1950), Niitani Masamitsu, is best known to us as the founder of COMPILE, a company that has delivered a lot of joy to most SEGA fans around the world, namely for titles such as the Aleste series (GG Aleste aka Power Strike in the west, MUSHA, Dennin Aleste, etc.), Ghostbusters, Shadowrun, Borderline, the R - Type port, and the notorious Madou Monogatari, and its widely known popular puzzle spinoff series Puyo Puyo.

In 2003, the company moved to a new home; therefore, it was decided to convert the old building into a public exhibition venue for the founder's collection of art.

The company's founder Robert Niznik — who in 2011 was a 21 - year - old New York Law School student — is now CEO of a drug and alcohol detox center in Miami, according to his LinkedIn profile, and has been since sometime in 2013.

Palmer Luckey, the baby - faced 22 - year - old founder of the virtual reality company Oculus VR who once floated to the cover of Time magazine, r...

Jim Simpson, the CEO and founder of Crelow, likens his two - year - old company to a dating service for commercial real estate deals: «Our goal is to set up a quality first date with our matchmaking service — and then we back out,» he says.

This group was named to recognize the heritage of the company founders, Colbert Coldwell and Arthur Banker, who started their company at 24 and 28 years old, respectively.

Mark Zuckerberg, the 33 - year - old billionaire founder of Facebook, wound up two days of hearings on Capitol Hill, explaining the company's policies and the role it had in the 2016 election.

Older mountain homes, with their varied ceiling heights, can confuse the eye, says Dotty Travis, founder and owner of Travis & Company.