Sentences with phrase «rights as a founder»

Benchmark's lawsuit is a transparent attempt to deprive Travis Kalanick of his rights as a founder and shareholder and to silence his voice regarding the management of the company he helped create.

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You can read the full Founders Letter from Brin, as well as our analysis on what it all means, right here.

As more than one founder told us, getting the right people is just as important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolAs more than one founder told us, getting the right people is just as important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolas important as having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payrolas having a compelling vision and making sure the bank account has enough to cover payroll.

Particularly when you first start, «traveler» may as well be on your business card right next to «founder».

In the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem, I've seen founders and their board members forget this at times, as they seek to install someone with the right pedigree but perhaps the wrong cultural fit.

So we asked our agency president, Ted Birkhahn, to dress as Thomas Edison (GE's founder) and deliver an «Imagination Manifesto» right in the CMO's conference room.

You hear wisecracks about founders letting «the inmates run the asylum» in the name of equality or democracy and that, as a result, those businesses are headed right into the ground.

In a way, Elite SEM was conceived as rebuttal to everything its founder and CEO Ben Kirshner found lacking in corporate America, where he met managers and executives more than happy to «slash and burn people left and right» in a bid to make more money for themselves.

As a founder you focus on first identifying the right investors, then getting introductions and finally working through the funnel with each investor.

Your mission as founder is to organize — and, if necessary, reorganize — people to test it until you get it right.

This way everyone wins — except for maybe the founder's ego, as he or she won't get to enjoy bragging rights and buzz over a big valuation number.

As he puts it, «Founders inevitably will have to overcome rough patches and patches where they don't know what the right answer is.

They also hold up Virgin Group founder Richard Branson as someone who's got the right mindset about remote work.

Meraj Faheem, a Hyderabad - based serial entrepreneur and the Founder of The Hacking School — India's first coding bootcamp in 2014 as he claims, highlights the path to finding the right bootcamp.

«As someone who is always on the lookout for transformational companies with exceptional founders and a world - class team, I believe Sapho is in the right spot to transform enterprise systems while also fundamentally improving how people work.»

Investors receive shares with the same voting rights and the same terms as founders and employees holding stock options.

«As the CEO and Founder of Alliance Wealth Management LLC, I am committed to showing my clients the right way to financial freedom.

We have entered into a sixth amended and restated stockholders» agreement, dated as of April 20, 2010, with holders of our preferred stock and certain holders of our common stock, including some of our directors, executive officers and holders of more than five percent of our voting securities and their affiliates, pursuant to which the holders of preferred stock have a right of purchase and co-sale in respect of sales of securities by our founders and common stockholders party to the agreement.

SCH entered into a registration rights agreement with our founders and their family trusts pursuant to which they obtained demand and other rights to have their shares of our common stock registered for public offer and sale, and we succeeded to this agreement as issuer upon the conversion.

For example, if a founder contributes a significant amount of cash (i.e. enough to buy a car) to fund the company, then I might suggest that the company issue preferred stock with a liquidation preference and no other rights to the founder, as opposed to issuing common stock.

This right of action does not represent a separate category of director liabilities, but start - up founders should be sensitive to the remedy's availability as a tool for stakeholders to make allegations of breaches of fiduciary duties and duties of care.

As founder and once - leader of the populist, right - wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage has already made a lasting impact on the United Kingdom.

Of course I wouldn't write «by Joe», but if this writing was to first be heard by a group instead of read (as some scholars have suggested), I might try to bring my audience to attention right off the bat with a mention of the one who just passed who was an important founder of the organization I'm addressing: «Joe, blah blah blah...»

I must stress, as I sum up, that your very appellation, Christian Conference of Asia, obligates you to battle for the values of human rights, global and Asian, for which Jesus, the first spiritually non-violent but irrepressibly militant campaigner and founder gave his life.

It is about whether rights are the product of human decision or, as the Founders declared, an endowment from our Creator.

In reality, the founders put the second amendment in the bill of rights not to ensure Americans could enjoy hunting or target practice, but as a protection against government tyranny.

I suspect that missing from the tribute video will be any acknowledgement of the fact that the founder of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, vehemently opposed the work of Martin Luther King Jr, publicly condemned him as a communist, and delivered an impassioned sermon the day after King's march to Selma opposing civil rights marchers as «left wing leaders» whose only aim was to stir up racial tensions and violence.

Why else did the Founders place as their central political principle the protection of individual rights but if not to allow the individual to pursue and achieve these things?

John Locke, a founder of modern notions of religious liberty, argued that atheists (as well as Catholics and Muslims) should not be granted full citizenship rights.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

ONE Basix took us years to get exactly right and we are proud to introduce it as a naturally sweetened protein option,» said Ron McAfee, Founder of ONE Brands.

As Elizabeth Prochaska, founder of Birthrights, the new UK organisation dedicated to promoting human rights in childbirth, puts it:

Garnet Dawn Scheuer, founder and president of Illinois Smokers Rights, said towns are using litter as an excuse to enact anti-smoking policies that infringe on personal freedoms.

Next week, founder Lindsay Pinchuk is throwing a giant bash, Best of Bump Club and Beyond and its great Gearapalooza, for expectant and newbie parents that will not only put all of the best gear right in front of them, but will also provide them with expert advice from The Baby Guy himself as well other experts who will tackle issues that give all parents a real run for their money — sleep, breastfeeding, relationship stress and the work of toddlerhood.

As the founder of the EU's # 150 million Democracy & Human Rights programme, which finances all its election observation missions worldwide, I have seen polls in Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Palestine, Russia and many others.

The NDC serves notice that should President Akufo Addo and the clique succeed in cancelling the September 21st as Founder's Day celebration of Osagyefo, the party reserves the right to restore the day as such when God willing, it assumes office in 2020.

As the founder of the National Latino Officers Association, a group that defends the rights of law enforcement officers and citizens, state Assembly candidate Anthony Miranda has always seen himself as a community advocatAs the founder of the National Latino Officers Association, a group that defends the rights of law enforcement officers and citizens, state Assembly candidate Anthony Miranda has always seen himself as a community advocatas a community advocate.

But the argument that elections for the Lords would be bad because «we need experts», aside from having to glide over people such as Rory Stewart in the Commons, founders on the basic question, «if we need experts, why is the Lords set - up the right way to go about it?»

«We are as a community to say clear and loud that transgender rights are human rights,» stated Guillermo Chacón, President of the Latino Commission on AIDS and Founder of the Hispanic Health Network.

He has also touted his track record on tenant rights, citing his history as the first president of the 40 Sherman Avenue Tenants Association and the founder of the Inwood Advocates Coalition for Tenants» Rrights, citing his history as the first president of the 40 Sherman Avenue Tenants Association and the founder of the Inwood Advocates Coalition for Tenants» RightsRights.

► Luis Tejada, a community and tenants» rights activist, is running for the second consecutive time with what he describes as a «candidate for tenants» platform, using his work as the founder and executive director of the Mirabal Sister Cultural and Community Center in Washington Heights.

The shady firm, which was hired by the Trump campaign in 2016, counts conservative megadonors Robert and Rebekah Mercer, as well as alt - right figurehead and ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon, among its founders.

Joining her is 26 - year - old East Village resident Natasha Dillon, a founder of the gay - rights activist group Queer Rising, who previously served on the board as a public member.

The rebellion was quashed, and a month later new Labour founder - and long - time Brown enemy - Peter Mandelson was awarded a peerage and brought back into the government as Brown's right - hand man.

2016: Kurt Godfried — Dr. Gottfried, a recognized leader in the scientific community on missile defense and nuclear terrorism who was among the founders of the Union of Concerned Scientists, was honored for his long and distinguished career as a «civic scientist,» through his advocacy for arms control, human rights, and integrity in the use of science in public policy making.

Statement on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility: Considering Context (2017) Professor Jay Aronson is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society in the History Department, as well as founder and Director of the Center for Human Rights Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

«I am so pleased to perform this historic experiment right after the ribbon cutting ceremony for Center for UAS Propulsion,» said center founder Dr. Chol - Bum «Mike» Kweon, who also serves as the lab's Propulsion Division chief.

As Founder and Chairperson of the European Policy Forum, she worked to overcome divisions in Europe and promote the values of dialogue, diversity, human dignity and rights.

Davidson, right, with Harold P. Furth, front left, who preceded him as the director of PPPL, Lyman Spitzer Jr., back left, the founder of PPPL, and Melvin B. Gottlieb, the second director.

While many of you might know me as the founder of Jivamukti Yoga, I'm also an avid animal - rights and vegan activist.