Sentences with phrase «visionary founders»

Delving into the personal and political activities of these forgotten figures across different contexts, Geyer has until now undertaken significant performance and exhibition commissions for institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she focused on the organisation's visionary founders Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and Juliana Force (resulting in Geyer's performance Time Tenderness, the footage of which is featured in the exhibition at Hales London), and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she explored the legacy of the museum's founding director Grace McCann Morley.

Named for the hotel's visionary founders, this lively lounge serves up craft beer, classic cocktails and casual bites.

«Kriser's visionary founders, expert store staff, customer loyalty, and fast growing market segment collectively position them for tremendous success,» said Amy Wolf, partner at River Hollow Partners.

Tickets are available to join the celebration and special memories of visionary founders Ted Forstmann and John Walton.

The charter school movement is dependent upon the hard work of visionary founders, leaders, and authorizers, plus dedicated teachers and volunteers and inspired students.

Early on he saw a need for a formal collaborative framework for investigators focusing on lung cancer and was one of the visionary founders of the IASLC and its journal Lung Cancer.

Yet, as Durant's story typifies, one of the challenges for visionary founders is that they often have a hard time staying focused on the present when the company needs to transition into relentless execution and scale.

They invest in visionary founders, transformational technology and emergent ecosystems for a new world.

Visionary founders have shown us that the weird use cases of today can become the hot themes of tomorrow.

This partnership includes support of monthly MaRS Mornings, an open breakfast series that features talks by visionary founders in the innovation community.

As a results - driven organization, we are constantly looking for ambitious and visionary founders with the drive and acumen to take their company to the next level.

«At Spring Mountain Capital, we invest in companies created by visionary founders and led by strong teams that are passionate about what they do.

Many of the most successful ecommerce brands have come about in this way; Warby Parker, Harry's, The Honest Company and Glossier are all the brainchildren of visionary founders who, as industry outsiders, brought a fresh perspective and a new approach to markets starved for innovation.

«Visionary founders» such as Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk of Tesla, and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway would be harder to replace than CEOs of large, well - established public companies, the directors indicated.

When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.), the operating executives who reported to them believe it's their turn to run the company (often with the blessing of the ex CEO).

It turns out the term «visionary founder» was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating.

The company's visionary founder and CEO Josh Boger tells his staff at one point, «If you give me 20 years and a half - trillion dollars, I guarantee I can put people on Mars and bring them back.

But McNabb liked its feel — «Wall Street smarts with Midwestern values» — and went through 25 interviews to get his first job there, including one with the visionary founder, himself: John «Jack» Bogle.

At the time, Vanguard was merely a $ 25 billion firm with a visionary founder and a 1 - 800 number.

Musk, the visionary founder of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is a lifelong night owl, typically turning in around 1 a.m., then usually rising again at 7 a.m..

Virgin's visionary founder opens up about taking chances, making mistakes and why stumbling is an essential part of entrepreneurship.

But finding the right person to fill that job is harder than ever, especially when a board must replace a visionary founder.

In fact, I'd argue that the other potential contenders — Twitter, Pinterest, Dropbox, Uber, etc. (Tumblr, SpaceX, and Foursquare would make the list, but they're not in Silicon Valley)-- don't have Square's potent mix of a visionary founder, built - in / scalable business model, and enormous market potential.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

I guess the lesson of Travis Kalanick's resignation as chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc. is that you can be the visionary founder of a massive company, stay private to avoid the pressures of the public market, keep control of a majority of the voting power of the shares, and still be forced out in a boardroom coup led by activist shareholders:

Joel Podolny's assignment: Help Apple internalize the thoughts of its visionary founder to prepare for the day when he's not around anymore.

Barrick Gold Corp.'s visionary founder Peter Munk, a man of lofty global ambitions who fulfilled them like few others, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

Holmes's net value was quickly adjusted down from $ 4.5 - billion to $ 0, and the SEC's fraud investigation began — ultimately concluding this week when the visionary founder was charged with «massive fraud».

Sustainability at the heart Thanks to visionary founder Einar Viggo Schou, sustainability has been at the heart of food ingredient manufacturer Palsgaard for more than a century.

Mount Snow has one of the most colorful and interesting histories of any resort in the ski industry thanks in large part to our visionary founder and National Ski Areas Association Hall of Fame member, Walter Schoenknecht.

Beyond all that, you are also the visionary founder of The Honest Company — a brand which promotes convenient, affordable products that are good for the body and good for the earth.

Designers were given the freedom to create an open design that embodies the progressive qualities of Lamborghini's visionary founder and shines in an elegant environment.

Formed by visionary founder Horace Mann in Ohio, Antioch organized a Santa Barbara campus in 1977.

These gifts — and others — have transformed the Museum's permanent collection and mirror the generosity and enthusiasm for contemporary art of its visionary founder.

Peter Gehris, the visionary founder of Travel Insured International, has enjoyed a successful career in the insurance industry spanning four decades including 20 years in travel insurance.

Established in the year 2006 by its visionary founder & CEO Honey Katiyal, Investors Clinic Infratech Private Limited is the largest real estate services company of India.

Not exact matches

If you're a startup founder, remind yourself that being a decisive, fair and visionary leader is more important than possessing any particular technical skill.

Ask Tara - Nicholle Nelson, an Oakland, Calif., real estate broker and founder and Chief Visionary of -LCB- RE -RCB- Think Real Estate.

«It's tricky if the founder is a visionary, highly charismatic, has a strong personality — those are big shoes to fill,» says Molinaro, who suggests companies shouldn't be holding on to former leaders in formal roles if they want their new CEOs to succeed.

As the concept creator and visionary leader, the founder is the ideal candidate to sell a vision while the product is being developed, and to prove to both the market and the internal team that the concept is a viable solution that supports long - term growth.

But after a few years of rubbing elbows with tech bros and wannabe visionaries, I've found there's often more to learn from founders with ambitions less grandiose than changing the world.

From Ryan Seacrest and Elon Musk to Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso, see what catapulted these visionaries — all members of CNBC's NEXT list — to phenomenal success.

Snap's bankers depicted the company as the next Facebook and presented Evan Spiegel — Snap's boyishly photogenic cofounder and CEO — as a visionary wunderkind like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

«Early founders are remarkable visionaries who can turn a company's strategy left and right, but that doesn't usually translate well to setting up an operational structure for hundreds of people,» says Roberge.

On Monday, SoulCycle founder Julie Rice was named chief brand officer of WeWork, making her the new visionary of the billion - dollar co-working company.

Haskayne Founders» Circle members are generous and visionary individuals who support the Haskayne School of Business with a gift of $ 10,000 or more each year.

Most notably, Pam has taken the lead on humanitarian issues as the founder and «guiding visionary» of Humanity United, which fights conflict and injustice in some of the most troubled places in the world — South Sudan, for example.

Elon Musk, the visionary CEO and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, wondered if people who believe that the Earth is flat also thought the same of other planets.

A fast - growing internet startup with a «visionary» founder goes public and offers negligible rights to the shareholders buying billions of dollars worth of stock.

This could come in the form of a top - down mandate (we've heard a startup founder half - seriously champion the «benevolent dictator» approach) or in a bottom - up dynamic, in which the C - suite empowers its trusted and visionary team members to make things happen.