Sentences with phrase «venture philanthropist who»

Early episodes also introduce Mike Birbiglia as a socially uncomfortable billionaire venture philanthropist who enters the AxeCap sphere.

«These are the choices of billionaires and hedge funders and other venture philanthropists who send their own kids to private schools.»

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When venture capitalist and philanthropist Jillian Manus throws a party, the who's who of Silicon Valley shows up.

Color has raised $ 150 million from venture capital firms like General Catalyst as well as Bay Area tech luminaries including Max Levchin, a PayPal co-founder; Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive; and Laurene Powell Jobs, a philanthropist - investor who is the widow of the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Lockport native Chris Sacca, a Silicon Valley venture investor and owner of Lowercase Capital with ties to Buffalo, was among some 60 celebrities, business leaders, athletes and philanthropists from across the country — including Stephen Colbert — who joined forces for #BestSchoolDay to fund classroom projects through DonorsChoose.org.

On Tuesday, de Blasio will attend a fundraiser in Seattle hosted by venture capitalist and early Amazon.com investor Nick Hanauer and his wife Leslie Hanauer, philanthropists who run a nonprofit foundation dedicated to education and income inequality.

On Monday I ventured a mile north to Buffalo Bayou, a bucolic urban park remade thanks to $ 25 million from a leading local philanthropist who once worked for Enron.

When the ragtag crew that found Atlantis returns to the underwater city to pick the brain of fearless leader Milo Thatch (voice of James Arnold Taylor; Michael J. Fox was the only actor from the original to bow out of this follow - up), everyone, including Milo's Atlantean girlfriend Kida (Cree Summer), ventures — on a quest for what, beats me — first to a ghost town in the Nordic mountains (where they battle a Verne - ian octopus called «The Kraken»), then to the American southwest (where an Indian elder plays that hilarious old joke where he threatens to kill them by summoning coyotes from Hell after they stave off a threat to his people), then to the home of philanthropist Preston Whitmore (John Mahoney), who was minding his own business one evening when a Viking demon broke in and stole his favourite Scandinavian spear.

At the outset, Fordham's Terry Ryan (as volunteer executive director) and Dayton businessman Doug Mangen ran the day - to - day operations of k.i.d.s., with help from Dayton - area philanthropists and business leaders, including the former CEO of Copeland Industries, Matt Diggs, who also worked to raise money for the new venture.

* By that summer, FES had a Boston offshoot, * seeded * thanks to the largesse of the New Schools Venture Fund, where Peyser worked, and the same Republican philanthropists who would get the #YesOn2MA ball rolling.

The other CCA board members include screenwriter and film producer Bill Conway, filmmaker Dyanna Taylor, art dealers William Siegal and Sandy Zane, John Gordon, who had been President of Santa Fe University of Art and Design; Eliot Fisher, Gordon Groff, Carla Lopez, Theodora de Portago and Albert S. Waxman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist who funded the Munoz - Waxman Gallery at the center.