Sentences with phrase «prominent early backer»
Thiel is a prominent early backer of cryptocurrencies, with his venture capital firm, Founders Fund, holding crypto assets.
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He was one of the earliest backers of the president's political ambitions, and during the 2016 campaign served as a prominent adviser and spokesman, despite disagreements with others on the campaign.
Last week, Instagram, which has just a handful of employees, closed a financing round worth more than $ 50 million with several prominent investors, including Sequoia Capital, an early backer of Google, Thrive Capital, the firm run by Joshua Kushner, and Greylock Capital, an early investor of LinkedIn.
«In the context of all that's going on, as reported in the Times, I don't think that the governor should be running for reelection,» said tate Sen. Bill Perkins, an early Obama backer who is the first prominent African - American official to call for Paterson to end his bid, in an interview.