Sentences with phrase «which sell to»

Then San Fran could buy my electricity and I could use the money to process their free sewage and water into water for my vineyards and farms while I process the sewage and biomass into bio-oil which I sell to the local refinery as a drop in oil.

Puppy and kitten mills (which sell to pet stores) are in business to make a profit, so they churn out puppies and kittens as fast as they can.

Its customer base includes Sunny Delight, Juicy Juice and Back to Nature, among others, which sell to a blue - chip group of grocery retailers, wholesalers and supercenters.

«Most firms make a profit in two ways: by charging a service fee of $ 10 to $ 30 or $ 40 per transaction, and by pocketing the difference between the low price at which they buy currency and the higher price at which they sell it to customers.»

Today, each of the startup's farms features vertically stacked trays where the company grows carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, and, its main product high - end baby greens, which it sells to grocers on the East Coast including Whole Foods, ShopRite, and Fresh Direct, as well as to dining halls at businesses like Goldman Sachs and The New York Times.

Although Breaux Capital faces steep competition in the personal finance sector — including from apps such as Mint, which sold to Intuit in 2009 and now counts more than 20 million customers — CTO Quarles says he's convinced that his community, by virtue of being by and for black men, is unique.

The company has also sought to sell non-core assets, including its intellectual property and science business, which it sold to private equity firms Onex Corp and Baring Private Equity Asia for US$ 3.55 bn in 2016.

So I sold that venture and began another one [social media management platform ScrOOn], which we sold to BlackBerry in 2013.

Through the work I've done at Growth Everywhere, I've been lucky enough to chat with notable entrepreneurs such as Jason Lemkin (founder of Echosign, which sold to Adobe), Mark Organ (co-founder of Eloqua, which sold to Oracle) and others who are constantly pushing the boundaries of business success with their own companies.

Sacks struck again in 2008, founding enterprise - focused social network Yammer, which he sold to Microsoft four years later for $ 1.2 billion.

Pershing Square also dropped a few investments in the second quarter, selling off nearly 11.7 million shares of spirits company Beam, which sold to Japan's Suntory earlier this year, as well as roughly 3.7 million shares of apartment building operator Apartment Investment & Management.

To hedge his bets, he recently began growing macadamia nuts, which he sells to a U.S. distributor.

But then he's already been a successful entrepreneur two times over; most notably, he co-founded and wrote code for the company that became Twitch, which sold to Amazon in 2014 for just under $ 1 billion.

Mark Cuban started with just $ 60 in his pocket before launching his first business, MicroSolutions, which he sold to CompuServe for $ 6 million.

Lore was the co-founder and CEO of Diapers.com parent company Quidsi, which he sold to Amazon for more than $ 500 million.

Gates and Allen built an interpreter for the BASIC language that could run on the Altair, which they sold to the computer's manufacturer, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS).

Lawee is a Canadian and a successful entrepreneur in his own right, having co-founded gaming community Xfire, which sold to Viacom for $ 106 million in 2006.

Ehrlichman previously co-founded Thriva, a maker of registration software tools for camps, corporate events, and the like, which sold to the Active Network (ACTV) for $ 60 million in 2007.

BitReserve also has two new boardmembers: Adrian Steckel, who has been CEO at a number of telecom companies in Mexico (most recently IUSACELL, which sold to AT&T for $ 2.5 billion), and Jim Milby, who worked with Watson at Barclays and Citi.

They also founded Beats Electronics, which they sold to Apple in 2014 for $ 3 billion in a cash and stock deal.

Ankur Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Humin, a mobile app that helps people meet up in real life, which he sold to Tinder in March 2016.

Lerner went on to found cosmetics company Urban Decay, which she sold to LVMH in 2000.

«It used to be that unicorns were these mythical creatures,» says Jason Green, a venture capitalist at Emergence Capital Partners whose investments include Yammer, which sold to Microsoft (MSFT) for $ 1.2 billion.

His corporate creations have included Asylum Records in 1971 (which he later sold to Warner Communications); Geffen Records in 1980 (which he sold to MCA for $ 550 million); and DreamWorks SKG (of which he's the «G») in 1994.

While historically best known as a manufacturer of metro, commuter and regional trains, Bombardier has collaborated in high - speed projects including the ICE and Alstom's TGV and more recently developed the Zefiro model, which it sold to China for manufacture there.

Portugal pushed Banif to find a buyer for the state's 61 % share, which sold to Santander.

Drew differentiates himself through deep sector experience in internet infrastructure, managed services and communications, which he gained through his involvement with Latisys, a co-location and managed services company, which sold to Zayo in 2015.

«The idea that everybody needs to be terrified of Amazon is completely wrong,» says Brian Spaly, who cofounded two e-commerce-centric startups, Bonobos (menswear) and Trunk Club (a wardrobe - in - a-box service), which sold to Walmart and Nordstrom, respectively, for nine - figure sums.

Before founding his multi-billion-dollar communication tool, Butterfield founded Flickr, which sold to Yahoo in early 2005 for $ 35 million.

Chou was the former CTO and employee No. 2 at Fieldglass, which sold to SAP for more than $ 1 billion in 2014.

Koch Industries had bought a 1982 Dassault Falcon 50 - 108 in 2002, which it sold to Bombardier Aerospace in 2009.

Certainly, Currier and Chudnovsky had seen network effects up close at Tickle, a popular purveyor of personality quizzes that they'd co-founded in 1999 and which sold to the jobs giant Monster in 2004.

«The bigger vision here is, we want to build a significant institution at NFX,» says Pete Flint, who co-founded the real estate site Trulia, which sold to Zillow in 2015 for $ 2.5 billion — after which Flint joined NFX.

I grew up in the UK, completed my graduate training at the BBC and after that, I launched off into startup land, as lead engineer at the first competitive phone company in the UK, which sold to the company that became Vodafone.

Lore is known for founding Diapers.com, which he sold to Amazon in 2009.

He has invested in more than 40 technology startups including Punch'd, which sold to Google, Summify, which was acquired by Twitter, Wander which was acquired by Yahoo, AreaConnect which sold to Marchex and Dave McClure's 500 Startups venture capital fund.

Mark Ordan owned a grocery store business, Fresh Fields, in the 1990s, which he sold to Whole Foods Market in 1996.

When he was called to talk about his film, he was in the process of moving furniture out of his house, which he sold to help finance the filming of «Blue Like Jazz.»

When demand increased, he hired a local plant to slaughter hogs for him, which he sold to top health food stores and to the top hotels in Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas.

As part of the deal, Ballast Point — which sold to Constellation for $ 1 billion last November — will become the «official craft beer sponsor of Barclays Center,» and receive its own branded bar on the main concourse, the company said via a press release.

The Safe + Fair Food Company is led by Will Holsworth, former president and chief growth officer at Muscle Milk (which sold to Hormel for $ 470M).

Prior to Spindrift, Bill co-founded Stirrings which sold to Diageo in 2009.

John Foraker, Keynote Speaker John was the longtime CEO of Annie's Homegrown, which sold to General Mills for $ 820 million in 2014.

Carlo Lizza moved operations from 50 Engel St., which it sold to the town for $ 2.5 million, to town - owned property at 200 Winding Rd. in Old Bethpage.

Peter Wertheim, board member and advisor to deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, voted against awarding two contracts to Tishman Construction for work on the Jacob K. Javits Center, noting that Daniel Tishman — chair of the construction company, which he sold to AECOM in 2010 — is one of Cuomo's top political contributors.

Most of the marketers have yet to resume importation of petrol and continued to rely on supply from the NNPC, which sells to them at N131 per litre.

In Imo state for example, Ike Nwachukwu as military governor sold industries which the Mbakwe government had borrowed to build, among them the Paint and Resin Industry in Mbaise, which he sold to himself; a controversial purchase for which he should still be held accountable.

Since 2003, Discover has been reporting on a biofuel company that turned turkey guts, garbage and old tires into oil, which it sold to refineries for vehicle fuel or to electrical utilities to help power generators («Anything Into Oil,» May 2003).

Before that I was running an Internet job board in Canada called JobShark which I sold to one of the biggest IT job boards in UK, called JobServe.

CNET NEWS - May 31 - Christian Rudder is a Harvard graduate who's helped launch and sell two successful companies - SparkNotes, in 1999, which sold to Barnes & Noble; OKCupid, in 2004, which sold to Match.com.