Sentences with phrase «person company ended»

The 18 - person company ended last year with $ 3.5 million in sales.

Not exact matches

MONTREAL, April 25 - Airbus SE and Bombardier aim to close a deal giving the European planemaker a majority stake in the Canadian company's CSeries jetliner program by the end of May, ahead of an initial timetable, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters this week.

If those services get hacked, as was the case with Ashley Madison, or purchased by other companies, customer information ends up in the hands of different people and organizations — from the annoying to the downright nefarious,» Rodriguez reported in November.

To the woman on the other end, it implies that she's doing a bad job as a parent if she's out building a company that's going to crush it and employ hundreds of people.

Despite my offering up all of these tips for you, perhaps the most important piece of advice is something learned the hard way: While many people may offer a startup assiistance, recognize that in the end you're the person running the show and the one responsible for the company's success and failure.

At benefits company Stride Health, which sells and manages healthcare benefits to «gig» workers like Uber drivers, CEO Noah Lang said that he would want to be sure that the replacement plan has tax credits available to people as they need them, rather than at the end of the year only.

The company is just starting the matching process on the new platform, but the end goal is the same one stated by CEO Brian Chesky in January, in the wake of Trump's travel ban: Airbnb aims to provide housing for 100,000 people in need over five years.

No company can train its front - end people to handle every situation, but you can strive to create an environment in which they feel at ease «doing as they would be done by.»

«At the end of the day, you're trying to look at somebody and ask, «Are you the type of person I could foresee building a $ 500 million company?»»

The company quickly started hiring, and by the end of the year, it employed 14 people.

But the company is hoping to give those investors a boost through a sort of mathematical illusion: A recent study of Acorn's customers found that people were much more likely to agree to set aside $ 5 per day than $ 150 per month, even though they'd end up contributing the same amount either way.

To that end, a Google spokesperson told Canadian Business that the Google Plus project is a direct extension of the company mission of «developing open, transparent and useful ways for people to connect online.»

The new facility in Sao Paulo may employ up to 7,000 people by the end of the year, providing technical support for around 9 million users in Brazil along with thousands of drivers, the company said in a statement.

Since Oculus initially started as a game - focused company, it makes sense people will end up spending the majority of their time on the Gear VR playing video games.

The danger there is that you have these policy reactions to a couple of companies that have not handled things very well that could end up having unintended consequences people aren't thinking of now.

she said, noting that people who exude that sense end up «using airtime, not solving the problems of the company.»

«Whatever those two people want to do — may it be to give company at a dinner or end up in bed together — is a private matter and should be agreed upon in the chat before meeting,» Poppenreiter told TechCrunch.

While Musk is clearly smart enough to have considered all this already (or at least to pay someone else to consider it), Maynard ends with a word of caution for the SpaceX team: «If enough people feel SpaceX is threatening what they value (such as the environment — here or there), or disadvantaging them in some way (for example, by allowing rich people to move to another planet and abandoning the rest of us here), they'll make life difficult for the company.»

What he ended up with was what he calls a «qualified pipeline» — people who would both be assets to the company and have already expressed an interest in investing in DraftKings, a company that's had buckets of trouble when it comes to regulation and may not be an investment target for everyone.

At the end of the day, companies like Zappos or Apple know you need the right leadership, which is about people at all levels who see the vision, understand the business and are passionate about it.

At the end of his company's all - staff meetings, which are held every Monday, Justin Kan, the co-founder of Justin.tv makes sure people haven't been spacing out, and sometimes even he comes up short.

«And when I look at my friends who are running other good companies, the single biggest difference that I see in whether the companies end up becoming really great and reaching their potential or just pretty good is whether they're comfortable and really self - confident enough to have people who are stronger than them around them,» Zuckerberg said.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the speculation never made sense to him because he believes a company - produced phone might only end up in the hands of 10 million to 20 million people.

The crux of the company's «personalized human voice solutions» offering is a sophisticated splice - and - dice digital audio technology that allows companies to precisely tailor both their inbound and outbound customer service messages to the person at the other end of the line.

While Dane Atkinson, SumAll's CEO, has said the unconventional policy sometimes trips people up during interviews when they're expecting a salary negotiation, new employees end up relishing in the company's openness.

The Wall Street Journal says executives are preparing to reduce the company's staff by as much as 40 per cent before the end of the year, citing people familiar with the matter.

The company has seen the number of guest it seats grow to more than 2 million people a month, which is a 327 percent year - over-year increase for the period ending in October 2017.

Storonsky said that the funding will also be used to boost the company's headcount from 24 people currently to around 40 or 50 by the end of the year.

Though the check - in slows meetings down — it can take as long as an hour — the process reinforces the company's axiom of making its people feel like ends in themselves, not just means by which the company can make money.

But in that moment Orr opened the door to a nine - year struggle during which his marriage would end, he would take a company public and then sell it, plunge into depression, drop out of the workforce, and take another company public, all while searching for a way to be a good boss and a good person.

But by the time the end of»98 came around, people helped me understand then that I needed to make it into a real company or it would fail.

At the end of the day, I started a company with two amazing people, Byron Lichtenberg and Ray Cronise.

This is because, even if you have a heated argument, as long as you keep in the back of your mind that the people you're arguing with do have the best in mind for the company and wider team, you'll always be able to make it to the end and remain friendly.

On the recruiting end, we encourage our hiring managers to look for people who bring new perspectives to the company, and we focus on building teams with a variety of voices and experiences.

And although Parker wouldn't speak specifically to Kik's future plans, he says Spark hopes all its firms end up as «independent, publicly traded companies that are sustainable, profitable, have a global audience and reach, and are employing thousands of people around the world.»

When the company ended the trial and extended the work - from - home option to the rest of its people, performance rose 22 percent.

Ackman has firmly stood by his contention that many of the people who sign up as distributors of Herbalife products are exploited by the company and end up losing money.

That's not a group of people Wasserstrum is looking to leave behind, simply because the end goal is to actually get these companies signing leases and not just serving as a search engine.

At year - end 2014, the company had net written premiums of Cdn $ 1.2 billion, shareholders» equity of Cdn $ 1.6 billion and employed over 1,400 people.

In the spring of 2016, Mr. Koum and WhatsApp revealed that it was adding end - to - end encryption to every form of communication on the company's service, which was by then used by more than 1 billion people across the globe.

Benchmark Capital will end up selling about $ 900 million of its Uber stock to SoftBank and other buyers, or about 14.5 percent of the venture capital firm's holdings in the company, according to people familiar with the transaction.

He named his high - end yoga wear company Lululemon because he thinks the trouble Japanese people face pronouncing L's works as an extra marketing tool for his product in that country, according to a National Post Business Magazine article which awarded him a special citation for product innovation and marketing.

Gruber is both right and wrong: yes, Gundotra's rhetoric was stridently anti-Apple, but at the end of that keynote everyone in attendance received an HTC EVO 4G; when it came to the zero - sum game of actually putting phones in people's pockets, Apple's competitors (then) were companies like HTC, Motorola, and especially Samsung.

That means Amazon brought on board more people in one year than the entire workforce of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., which said it had more than 80,000 employees at the end of last year.

The company's subsequent teeing up of a monetization strategy for WhatsApp, via the forthcoming launch of business accounts, likely explains its push to link users of the end - to - end encrypted messaging platform with Facebook users, where the same people have likely engaged in far more public digital activity — such as liking pages, searching for content, and making posts and comments that Facebook is able to read.

The talks continued until March of 2016, ending without a deal due to the difficulty of blending the technology underpinning each company's approach, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified as the discussions were private.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters)- Bugaboo, the Dutch company that transformed the market for high - end baby buggies after one of its strollers featured on TV show «Sex and the City,» is up for sale in a deal that could fetch 200 million euros ($ 223 million) following a row between its co-owners, people familiar with the matter said.

The company's chief executive bought millions of shares during the midst of the turmoil in December, 2008 and February, 2009 — «a time when the stock market was at its nadir and people thought the world was going to end,» said chief financial officer Laurence Sellyn.

If you get to catch these people on the other end of the line, they'd simply say, «Not interested,» which will reflect on what they think of you and your company.

And despite what people say, I think that at the end of the day, Millennials take a lot of pride in what it means to be a part of a company.»