Sentences with phrase «own multibillion»

Angiotech and QLT hit multibillion - dollar market capitalizations, hired hundreds of employees and built flashy head offices — and then came undone.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

«They're probably kicking themselves now because it's a multibillion - dollar drug,» he adds.

His legal background proved invaluable in 1991, when the state of California and its insurance commissioner John Garamendi seized Raleigh's then - financial partner Executive Life Insurance Company after the value of the insurer's multibillion - dollar portfolio collapsed — a fate tied to its massive investments in the junk bond market of the go - go 1980s.

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

Otherwise, these new multibillion - dollar constructs will collapse under their own weight.

K. C. Irving's three sons — John, James and Arthur — each ran distinct but complementary parts of the multibillion - dollar enterprise, which has interests in everything from energy to logging, shipping, agriculture and even retail.

Now, officials suspect pot grown legally in Oregon and other states is also being smuggled out, and the trafficking is putting America's multibillion - dollar marijuana industry at risk.

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

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion - dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

Porowski, for one, was able to license her product, now known as the GoGown, to MedLine Industries, a multibillion - dollar medical supply manufacturer.

Beck and Merrill are still reconciling their dual role: corporate executives of a multibillion - dollar company who still see themselves as hardcore gamers.

The company went public last month, Wall Street loved the stock, and now GoPro is a multibillion - dollar company.

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 one of the few markets where you can truly create a multibillion - dollar business.

One co-founder of a startup with a multibillion - dollar valuation told me he's so inspired by the Facebook CEO and his annual personal challenges, he listens to the soundtrack of The Social Network to psych himself up for board meetings and presentations.

In 2013, J.P. Morgan & Co. had just been ordered to pay a multibillion - dollar settlement stemming from the financial crisis, and it was seeking to reconnect with consumers via a Twitter Q&A.

On the phone was the chairman of a multibillion - dollar corporation for which Amir Georges Sabongui, a Montreal corporate psychologist, had previously consulted.

That's about $ 17 billion of purchasing power today Resuming cultivation of hemp, America's original cash crop, is a multibillion - dollar opportunity.

VC arms are a trendy way for Big Food — multibillion - dollar legacy players like Tyson — to participate in disruptive food startups.

One out - of - stock piece can bring a multibillion - dollar manufacturer to its knees.

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.

But these efforts have been overshadowed by multibillion - dollar fines and higher costs for technology and compliance.

In the past few weeks, it's been caught up in the valuation write - downs by mutual fund company Fidelity that have involved more than one multibillion - dollar unicorn, including Snapchat.

Such funds came of age in the 1980s, when they played an integral role in financing that era's multibillion - dollar leveraged buyouts.

U.S. military veterans will meet with tribal leaders on Saturday as they continue to entrench themselves in a North Dakota camp where thousands of activists are protesting a multibillion - dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation.

In addition to its blighted multibillion dollar Nokia acquisition in 2014, the company has phased out support for its unpopular Windows Phone in recent months.

Many praised the move as giving financial institutions «the green light» to finally serve the multibillion dollar cannabis industry.

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.

So Google pretty clearly has a vested interest in the open web, since that is what it has built its multibillion - dollar empire on.

Lurie said Goldberg saw online survey company SurveyMonkey as a data platform player that could disrupt a multibillion industry.

I'm certainly super ambitious and I absolutely want to build a multibillion dollar company.

It has imperiled multibillion - dollar deals and could ravage business relationships for years to come, as well as pummel the earnings of countless U.S. businesses, from oil producers to investment banks.

Apple, Microsoft, and Magic Leap, the mysterious multibillion - dollar startup, are all currently building special glasses that combine the real and virtual worlds — for things like games, but also for education and productivity purposes.

Brian Wilcove, partner at Artiman Ventures, an early - stage venture fund in Silicon Valley that invests in companies aiming to disrupt multibillion - dollar markets, seconds this prediction.

But it is the only system where ideas once scribbled on a cocktail napkin can become multibillion - dollar enterprises, and make a lot of people rich along the way.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

The Innosight report notes that startups with multibillion - dollar valuations are likely candidates for forthcoming IPOs and, therefore, S&P 500 eligibility.

These types of operations, though, aren't just reserved for nation states or multibillion - dollar global enterprises

It's certainly possible — but not until 2022 at the earliest, because CBS, NBC and Fox have the rights to the contest sewn up until then, as part of a multibillion - dollar deal signed in 2012.

According to McGowan's website, her new memoir promises to explore «the truth about the entertainment industry,» «dismantle the concept of fame,» and «shine a light on a multibillion - dollar business built on systemic misogyny.»

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

Let's face it, if Walmart founder Sam Walton had told the world early on that he was going to build a multibillion - dollar industry, people would have probably ignored him.

German industrial group Siemens is likely to decide on Tuesday to pursue a multibillion - dollar rail merger with French rival Alstom rather than Canada's Bombardier.

Miguel McKelvey may be the co-leader of a multibillion dollar venture, but at heart — and if his beard is any indication — he says he's still the scrappy businessman he was in the late nineties.

It can be a focused wide space in a multibillion - dollar business.»

A multibillion - dollar investment and thousands of new jobs will raise housing costs, tighten labor markets and clog streets.

After being pushed by Icahn, Apple is in the midst of a multibillion buyback program, spending roughly $ 3 billion in the first quarter of 2016 alone.

But for Cott Corp. (TSX: BCB), low - profile names such as these — and dozens of others — constitute a multibillion - dollar business.