«Every student we've spoken to thinks there's a stigma attached to the word «tutor» --[that] it's only for the rich or the dumb,»
said cofounder Ethan Fieldman.
«Tweets show the real you,»
said cofounder Daigo Smith.
«I can not be more thankful to County Executive [Rob] Astorino and the Westchester Board of Legislators for their vote of confidence,»
said cofounder of Standard Amusements Nicholas Singer, who sat in the audience as the votes were cast.
«Most platforms have been generalist,»
said cofounder Mitch Kirby.
Since 2013, its solo - author service business has doubled each year,
says cofounder and CEO Leslie Miller.
«We have to participate in trade shows,»
says cofounder Karetta Hubbard.
says cofounder Alan Khazei.
Stripe's core values,
says cofounder John Collison, have been key to the online payment powerhouse's growth since he and his brother, Patrick, launched the company in 2011.
«We want to expand the flavor palette of beer,»
says cofounder Dave Brodrick, a veteran beer - bar owner and longtime coffee lover.
«We just got five new experimental hops that don't have names,»
says cofounder and brewer Mike Morris.
«It's too hard to conveniently and securely own a portfolio of cryptocurrency,»
says cofounder Hunter Horsley.
Any trader who has spent significant time in the crypto markets recognizes the need for a platform like CoinFi»,
says cofounder Nate Tsang.
Not exact matches
While he has a good relationship with his former
cofounder, Dheeraj Pandey (Nutanix CEO), he
says, this was not a sanctioned split blessed with seed money.
In November 2013, the FDA sent 23andMe
cofounder and CEO Anne Wojcicki a stern warning
saying that the company's tests and health reports, which it was already selling straight to customers, were unapproved medical devices that hadn't been cleared by the agency.
«People who sleep differently actually do need different beds,»
says Helix Sleep
cofounder Kristian von Rickenbach.
Cofounder Martin Eberhard has
said Tesla was started to fight climate change.
«The sheer mountain of coverage is so far above every other celebrity there's no comparison,»
says Paul Senatori,
cofounder and head of analytics at mediaQuant, a Portland, Ore. company that measures «earned media,» or all the news coverage that isn't paid.
A pair of mentors recommended they apply to startup accelerator Y Combinator, which they did — past deadline, but a mentor was able to convince YC
cofounder Paul Graham to take a look at their application,
said Gebbia.
Interest graph targeting takes advantage of the insights that Flipboard has built up in its five years of serving readers,
cofounder and CEO Mike McCue
said in an interview before the launch.
And although he fell, his skills, experience and know - how unarguably continue to exist,»
says Andrew Lee,
cofounder, chairman and chief of lab division at London Trust Media.
«I am more than willing to give a second chance to Mark in this fight's critical hour,»
says Andrew Lee,
cofounder and chairman of London Trust Media, who also briefly ran Mt. Gox's U.S. operations.
Indeed, that's what makes the Problem Solvers» proposal worth celebrating,
said No Labels
cofounder Galston on the same call.
«The Skype effect has been enormous,»
says Heinla, who started Starship with Skype
cofounder Janus Friis; major investors include Daimler A.G., as well as Silicon Valley firms Shasta Ventures and Matrix Partners.
«Not to mention that my partner was eight months pregnant while we did that,» Gelman
said, referring to Lauren Kassan, The Wing's chief operating officer and other
cofounder.
«This is a brand new way for people to contribute and give back in a way that's actually needed the most,»
says Joe Gebbia, Airbnb's
cofounder and chief product officer who has spent much of his time in the past few years leading the initiative.
Being affiliated with a university - sponsored space brings a certain cachet to your business,
says Tucker Hutchinson, 27,
cofounder of GoOverseas.com, a website for people looking to study, teach, volunteer or intern abroad.
In an op - ed posted on the IEX website on Sunday night, IEX
cofounder Don Bollerman
says NYSE also has a speed bump.
OnePlus
cofounder Carl Pei
says he doesn't want to use higher resolution screens for now as they take up too much battery.
«We want to motivate people to come to work every day,»
says Lauren Dixon, the company's
cofounder and CEO.
Robots just arrive at their homes,»
says Ahti Heinla,
cofounder and CEO of Starship Technologies.
But only one other Alibaba
cofounder, now vice president of its China investment team Simon Xie, made the rich list, Hurun Report
said.
For now, though, since launching the website and the iOS app at the end of last year, the
cofounders say it hasn't been hard for their innovative concept to take hold in the UAE market.
As
cofounder Rink Dickinson
said incompany literature, «We're setting up a different economic model.
«Wall Street has just started to dip their toes in,»
says Tyler Winklevoss, CEO and
cofounder of Gemini, whose cryptocurrency exchange partnered with a more traditional one, CBOE, on Bitcoin futures contracts in December, offering institutional giants a way to participate.
«I wouldn't be surprised if Meg ended up the first female President,»
says Bob Kagle, a
cofounder of venture capital firm Benchmark, who helped recruit Whitman to eBay.
That's according to Joel Smith,
cofounder and CTO of email and web security company AppRiver, who
says a slew of affordable options exist for keeping a company's machines from «getting owned» due to the dumb things employees might be doing while at work.
Brendan Kennedy, the
cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray,
says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.
«We want the product that we're providing to have an impact,»
says Seth Goldman,
cofounder of Honest Tea.
«One of our biggest competitive advantages is that we're old,» ElNaggar
said, referring to himself and his
cofounder.
«Amazon's great in a lot of ways,»
says Ben Hantoot,
cofounder of the wildly popular game Cards Against Humanity.
It's still too early to assess just how much a more restrictive U.S. immigration policy will hurt U.S. tech companies or benefit tech economies elsewhere,
says Michael Tippett,
cofounder of True North, a firm that specializes in helping tech companies set up offices in Canada.
Jeff Zwelling, CEO and
cofounder of Convertro, a provider of marketing and advertising measurement,
says he often turns to unique, and sometimes tricky, questions during job interviews so that he can get a better sense of who the candidate is.
«Silicon Valley has a long history of looking at a real problem and seeing an opportunity to exploit vs [sic] solving an issue,» Alan Graham,
cofounder of a cryptocurrency - related startup,
said on Twitter.
«Traditional enterprise processes were designed to reduce data,»
said John Hayes, a
cofounder and chief architect with Pure Storage.
«Now there is more of a culture of people thinking, «Hey, you should talk about these things even if they are rumors,»»
says Floodgate's other
cofounder, Ann Miura - Ko.
«They likely believe [claims of sexual harassment] are material information,»
says Mike Maples Jr.,
cofounder of Floodgate, a Palo Alto — based VC firm with an investing team that's 40 % female.
BuyTopia
cofounder and Dragons» Den judge Michele Romanow
says the secret is not investing too heavily in any one idea
As Priceline.com
cofounder Jeff Hoffman, co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back, likes to
say, «Your business plan is more about the questions you ask and get yourself to struggle with than it is about finding the «right» answer.»
«I'm with BigID and our big idea is that privacy matters,»
said Dimitri Sirota, CEO and
cofounder of the firm, taking the stage.
CEO and
cofounder Angel Versetti
says in a press release: «With a dynamic ecosystem of complementing technologies developed within and around the Ethereum ecosystem, we have devised a bold rethinking of how the global food supply chains and markets could operate.