Sentences with phrase «public a year ago»

MuleSoft had one of the best opening IPO days of 2017 when it went public a year ago on the New York Stock Exchange.

And I've spent over 300 hours with Motif Investing, who during this time raised a Series E round led by Renren of China, a company I ironically helped take public years ago.

If they wanted more money they would open on Sundays and could have gone public years ago..

Match Group went public a year ago and is worth ~ $ 4B.

Not exact matches

The Bank of Canada dutifully let the public know that it was studying the terms of its mandate almost two years ago.

Snap went public nearly a year ago but has failed to live up to its high expectations.

Twenty years ago, there were many companies that went public with little in the way of revenue and generally no profits.

About eight years ago, I made a difficult decision: to end my career of public speaking.

About 10 years ago, inventor Dean Kamen, in a much - anticipated introduction, brought his Segway to the public.

Two years ago, Lou Hoffman, president of a $ 5 - million public - relations firm in Silicon Valley, was in the enviable position of being able to grow without necessarily adding new business, mostly because his high - tech clients were growing so quickly.

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

She made history 14 years ago when, at 27 years old, she became the youngest - ever CEO of a public company.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

When a cash crunch left Classics scuffling to meet payroll a few years ago, Berger started to fantasize about going public.

The company that returned to family control is hardly the same one the Phelans took public 35 years ago, when sales amounted to just $ 33 million.

One year ago ExactTarget, an interactive marketing software company, went public with a market cap of over $ 1 billion (and I wrote about the mental journey from start - up to IPO taken by the company's founders.)

«If it was 10 years ago we'd be public by now,» Butterfield tells Richard Waters.

The Swedish company, which began trading in an unorthodox initial public offering a month ago, reported first - quarter revenue of 1.139 billion euros ($ 1.36 billion), up 26 percent from a year earlier, or 37 percent excluding currency effects.

He also indicated it would be something people wouldn't be embarrassed to wear in public — a nod of recognition to the fact that people were less than comfortable interacting with others wearing Google Glass, the futuristic head - mounted computer system that Google created a few years ago.

«Five to seven years ago proximity to public transportation was paramount,» said Stokes.

Weinstock, a public relations executive, moved to Maplewood, New Jersey, five years ago, lured by the convenient 35 - minute commute by rail directly into Penn Station.

Considering recent events, along with all the problems Uber has faced over the past few years, I can't help but think back to the iconic «Netflix Culture» slide deck that was made public many years ago.

Three years ago, Gartner cloud analyst Lydia Leong took a look at what Verizon was planning and was impressed with its ambitious scope, although even then she was unsure if Verizon could take on the big public cloud players led by Amazon Web Services.

The first Amazon Go store opened one month ago to much fanfare, after more than 12 months of hype that only crescendoed as the company delayed the public opening by about a year.

A few years ago, HP execs said the company would compete head on with Amazon Web Services in public cloud computing, a model in which businesses rent computing capacity from a provider like Amazon, Microsoft or Google (GOOG) rather than building out more of their own data center capabilities.

IBM's decision to build out public and private clouds for infrastructure and application development won plaudits, but the researchers found that SoftLayer, which IBM (IBM) bought for $ 2 billion two years ago, has little to distinguish itself from competitors other than its mix of virtualized and non-virtualized bare - metal capabilities and broad geographic coverage.

A $ 150 billion valuation would make it one of the biggest public flotations ever, dwarfing this year's launch of Spotify and Dropbox and comparing to the $ 104 billion float of Facebook six years ago or Alibaba's own $ 168 billion valuation in 2014.

Still, the company's stock price has a ways to go to hit its $ 23.15 peak after it went public nearly a year ago.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

«When I heard the team [at Tanium] was looking to expand the board, I really went for it in terms of pursuing it as an opportunity,» said Chadwick, who five years ago joined the board of F5 Networks (ffiv), a public cybersecurity firm that provides software to data centers.

Since going public two years ago, the company has seen its stock jump from $ 8 a share to a recent price of $ 59.62 — giving it a market cap of $ 5.3 billion — even though it has yet to post a profit.

Shares traded at record lows this week, a fraction of their height from just two years ago when the microblogging company went public.

Courts ruled 11 years ago that big tobacco companies had misled the general public about the health effects of smoking — and that they should pay a price for it.

Its public debt was equal to about 85 % of its GDP during Q1, up from 23 % 20 years ago.

In a long - awaited move Tuesday, Alibaba filed for an initial public offering of stock in the U.S. that could surpass the $ 16 billion that Facebook and its early investors raised in the social networking company's IPO two years ago.

While the likes of Beate Uhse and Playboy were each raking in at least $ 300 million each a few years ago while I was researching my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, the three biggest public companies pulled in less than that combined over the past year.

And I realized years ago that I didn't want to be the CEO when the company went public... I realized I wasn't passionate about being the CEO who will take this company public and that I should find someone who will be passionate about it,» Libin told Recode.

What started as an arcane ideal debated a few years ago by techno - academics has become an issue that a good portion of the general public understands.

Ironically, IBM (ibm) is proposing an easy way to launch and manage vSphere workloads in its public cloud at the IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas, and that proposal is pretty much what VMware vCloud Air, which launched three years ago, was supposed to do.

It went public six years ago at a valuation of over $ 100 billion.

It was Kullman's first public appearance since abruptly leaving the chemical giant a little over a year ago.

* Luxury apparel maker Canada Goose Holdings Inc, which went public less than a year ago, was last up 2.9 percent at C$ 40.92 after hitting an all - time high of C$ 41.90.

Perhaps it was an inflated sense of public trust, an attitude of invincibility, or an unwillingness to own up to responsibility that led Zuckerberg, COO Sheryl Sandberg and other Facebook executives to take a painfully long time to formulate a response to the news that data firm Cambridge Analytica gained access to millions of its users» data three years ago.

Five years ago, Erin Lau, a writer and former event - planner, couldn't speak in public without a red face and trembling hands.

Public mood across Europe is disgruntled right now and there are conditions for populist groups to attract levels of support that years ago they could only dream of.

eHarmony is a business that would likely have gone public 5 + years ago under the last decade's «rules,» yet is still privately held in 2010 notwithstanding years of growth, profitability and household name recognition.

Just a few years ago, public condemnations from him of police brutality and overall systemic racism in the country were few and far between, with Jay's frustrations and reflections over his tough childhood limited mostly to his music, including «Politics as Usual» from his debut studio album Reasonable Doubt.

48:41 — Andy notes that there are 50 percent fewer public companies than there were about 10 years ago.

Five years ago, Google — one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team.

When Facebook staged its initial public offering six years ago, it implemented a dual - class share structure that means Zuckerberg personally controls a majority of the voting stock even though other investors own the majority of the financial value of the company.