Sentences with phrase «own poster child»

More than anything else, BuzzFeed is the poster child for the multi-platform approach to media — according to the Fast Company piece, as much as 75 % of the site's output never appears on its website at all.

Then he did the thing that gave him an even bigger fortune and made him a tech industry star: He cofounded Nutanix, the poster child of the unicorn - startup era.

While J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon sees promise in blockchain but a bubble in Bitcoin, Twitter and Square's chief executive, Dorsey, thinks the poster child of the cryptocurrency movement will come to replace all currencies.

But by 2015, with oil prices having cratered, the technological wonder that was Vito appeared a poster child for an overconfident industry — an expensive relic.

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

I also asked Chesky to weigh in on the recent tumult at Uber, a company often lumped into the same bucket as Airbnb as the poster children of the «sharing economy» and which has been dealing with extensive fallout from accusations of an aggressive and sexist culture and a leaked video showing CEO Travis Kalanick berating an Uber driver.

An official reviewer for Amazon.com called Seventh Generation a «poster child for corporate conscience.»

The 2014 Sony hack is the poster child for what happens when an isolated nation - state goes after a North American enterprise.

The price of cryptocurrency poster child, Bitcoin, remained steady, despite on user speculating its value might drop following comments from the world's second wealthiest man.

LeBron James is the poster child for boomerang employees who return with new skills.

In court documents, the FTC calls Willms the «poster child» for certain shady practices.

So you've got an easy - to - understand scandal that directly affected hundred of thousands of Americans, a slam - dunk political target in an election season, and a poster child for frustration about Wall Street's pay.

Without a doubt, Facebook has become the poster child for pushing the envelope in what companies can do with users» personal information.

Democrats and environmental groups have sought to make the pipeline a poster child for the type of dirty energy sources they say are exacerbating global warming.

Silicon Valley is facing an identity crisis — once the poster child for futuristic innovation, it's increasingly seen as a bunch of rich white guys chasing money at the expense of everybody else, including their employees and society at large.

Since 2012, the Oculus Rift has been the poster child for virtual reality — a status that was upgraded immeasurable last year when Facebook (FB) bought Oculus for $ 2 billion.

Although Trump has become the poster child for this, he had several other USFL owners in his corner.

And that's sad, because West Virginia is the poster child for how big pharma used its power and influence to shove drugs down people's throats.

Gregory Reyes was supposed to be the Bush Administration's poster child for a options back - dating prosecution.

I am certainly not the poster child for academia.

The C - suite is the poster child of app overload.

And, of course, there's healthcare.gov, which had plenty of issues of its own and became the poster child for what not to do for UX.

Apple relented, making Swift the poster child for all artists hoping to reclaim their rights — and their revenue — in a digital world.

There's pressure to maintain this role as kind of the poster child for recovery,» she told INSIDER.

«Probably in my mind the poster child for a central bank mistake was actually the U.S. Federal Reserve in 2003 and 2004... we had great conviction that the Federal Reserve was making a mistake with way too loose monetary policy.»

In keeping with its status as the poster child for new media, however, BuzzFeed has decided to do something a little different with its first media editor.

Capital One (cof), another of the nation's largest financial institutions, is already a poster child for Amazon's cloud.

«Now you've got a poster child.

Google, for example, is the poster child of a unique company culture, with its nap pods and free food for employees.

Consider the case of Jack Dorsey, a poster child for Silicon Valley who is the CEO of Twitter and payments company Square, which recently went public.

Becoming the «poster child» for any issue when your company is under pressure to perform is the last thing any CEO should do, experts say.

According to a recent Business Insider profile of George Clooney's new business venture, Casamigos tequila, the actor - turned - entrepreneur could be the section's first poster child.

The company became a poster child for the dotcom crash, but Boyd restructured the company into a global travel - booking site, largely through the shrewd, $ 135 million purchase of Booking.com in 2005.

It's a poster child for how Canadian businesses can tap into the surging growth in South - South trading — trade between developing nations — one of the biggest growth opportunities in 21st - century global commerce.

He may be the poster child for pharmaceutical greed, but that's how the media portrayed him.

The Lower Ninth Ward, the poster child for the worst the disaster had to offer, lost 80 percent of its population following Katrina, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau report.

It was no surprise that once the mammoth effort of building a company set in, he became the poster child for burnout — depressed, irritable, uninspired, and unproductive.

Back then, I was the poster child for bad HR, making decisions that protected my employees, instead of my business.

Even Steve Jobs, the poster child for fearless empire - building, reportedly felt insecure about his achievements much of the time.

The CFPB has been a sore spot among GOP leaders who view the bureau as the poster child for postcrisis regulatory overreach.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

While Twisted Sister was - in the words of Dee Snider — «the poster child for the unsignable band», they had a true major label believer in the States: Atlantic Records» Jason Flom.

Surprisingly, Detroit, which has been the poster child for the dilapidated and abandoned properties left behind by the foreclosure crisis, leads the country in increased flipping activity with a 4.8 percentage points jump between 2015 and 2016.

It may seem odd for Chesky, the CEO of the company that, along with ride - sharing giant Uber, has become the poster child for the so - called sharing economy, to seek advice from the man who signed off on the intelligence that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

«Talk about a poster child for an industry that has really kind of ignored customers and ignored customer cares and gouged at every corner,» Legere said of the pay - TV market during T - Mobile's earnings call Tuesday.

Because without it, and all bets are off, not in our words but in those of Silicon Valley's very own poster child.

Although the state has become the poster child for fiscal mismanagement, it is neither alone nor particularly remarkable.

Uber has become the poster child for this system.

And in the larger context of the sharing economy that Uber had become the poster child for, the shakeup at the top levels raises questions about the health and sustainability of the growing community of younger, smaller startups as well.

«Xerox is the poster child for monopoly technology businesses that can not make the transition to a new generation of technology,» said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School.