Sentences with phrase «who built the companies»

«Entrepreneurs are the ones who build the companies that become the next Man,» he says.

Elkann was picked for the Fiat board at age 21 by his grandfather Gianni Agnelli, the dapper industrialist who built the company into a global powerhouse.

The move is surprising for 73 - year - old Slim, who built his company America Movil in a more staid sector, namely the highly regulated telecommunications and TV business in Latin America.

Cindy Whitehead, the serial entrepreneur who built the company behind the «female Viagra,» has a new venture aimed at helping women avoid the pitfalls that nearly ended her career.

Not exact matches

Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, «Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time,» saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.

The following is from John Cunningham, a consultant who helps companies make the shift to going remote and building highly productive distributed organizations.

People who are invested in building a career, however, are much more focused on finding ways to learn and gain experience in their work as a way to go further toward fulfilling long - term goals, which might be running a company or starting one of their own.

Indeed, it's «a constant game of risk management,» says founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, who also worked at Google but left in 2010 to launch Drawbridge, a company that builds technology to connect users» screens and devices without relying on their personal security information.

Ben's ability to convey, in an easy - to - read, engaging, and thought - provoking way, his thoughts, fears, and struggles about raising money, rapidly growing, restructuring, and ultimately selling his company makes this a must - read for any CEO who wants to build and run a great business.

He's hoping his brother, who runs a web development company in Virginia, can help build his company's app.

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Both companies touted that the acquisitions built up their portfolios in «better - for - you» snacks, a response to shoppers who have been seeking less - processed fare and labels stacked with ingredients they understand.

Menear, who took the reins three years ago, has had the enviable though difficult task of building on his predecessor Frank Blake's remarkable run by finding new avenues of growth and preventing the company from falling into complacency.

She's also building a separate coaching business for other owners who are trying to build companies.

It's an important resource for entrepreneurs and a quick way for us to share what we're learning every day at 1871 from the hundreds of companies and thousands of people who are going through the very same (and sometimes scary) process of starting and building businesses.

For the two guys who essentially created the smartphone market and built a multi-billion-dollar company in the process, the calls to step down must seem outlandish.

We wanted not just their capital to invest, but also the credibility they could bring that would shine a spotlight on entrepreneurs in the middle of the country who are building great companies.

A panel of three entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who, as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.

Sometimes it seems that all of the media attention is directed toward serial entrepreneurs who build up a company, sell it and start all over again.

Most of the people there built mobile apps for pharmaceutical companies to give to the people who take their medications.

Entrepreneurs need to be finding mentors, advisors and investors from Day One who have experience building companies from $ 0 to $ 10 million to $ 100 million - plus.

Leaders who adapt and prepare their businesses and teams to work with Gen Z will thrive — and build a strong company along the way.

As a twenty - six year old who partnered with my parents in building our company after college and who is now a mom myself, I am beginning to realize some of the parenting habits my parents consciously or unconsciously practiced in raising my brother and I that set me up for a life in business (whether I knew it or not at the time).

As startups grow, the initial employees who helped to build the company can get lost in the shuffle.

It's the people who dedicate themselves to a single pursuit that come out on top, whether that one path is penny stock trading, company building or something else.

White, the only person who works for both businesses, says it was never his aim to build companies that would be spread across three states.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

Essentially, Yahoo is paying $ 81 million for a middle manager with diminished power who has built a business with no revenue and lacks the experience necessary to work in a big company.

I reflect on this topic because I finally feel I am living and being who I am supposed to be in my life and that I have built a company that truly reflects my core values and passions.

When building a company, leaders are advised to create a strong work culture that attracts top talent who are motivated to work.

Strategic buyers and investors are looking to buy companies who have great executive teams in place that not only deliver results in revenue and profits now, but who also have built in the upside to deliver growth into the future.

Entrepreneurs who aren't willing to relocate to Shenzhen can sign up for the company's incubator in San Francisco, in which entrepreneurs build prototypes and wire their orders to China.

The fact that there are women who are building companies that directly address a pain point for that female consumer is a huge opportunity magnified by the fact that the vast majority of the venture world is ignoring them.

One of the venture funds I work with specializes in seed investments: early - stage deals that are often made with young, bright, first - time entrepreneurs who've been working hard to get the chance to build their dream company.

Amazon's plan to build a second headquarters in one lucky city across the U.S. is being met with some criticism from civic leaders who are concerned the company won't do enough to help the community it will ultimately choose.

Next to him, grinning widely, was the man who had assembled the acquired company: Stefano Pessina, an Italian billionaire who had started with one local pharmaceutical distributor in 1977 and, through shrewd and voluminous dealmaking, built it into the $ 40 billion, 4,600 - store Alliance Boots.

What's more, the founders — Weidenmiller and her father, who wrote the 1 - Page recruiting concept that the company is built on — avoided further dilution from venture capitalists.

«Instead now we see people who are on track to build big, important companies in Canada.»

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a company.

Instead of the specialists sought by aerospace companies, he encourages his staffers to remain generalists who can design anything from a fuselage to a door handle and then go into the shop and build it.

Chen Tianqiao, who built game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment into what was once China's biggest internet company (big enough to rival Alibaba and Tencent), disappeared after leaving China and taking his company private in 2012.

Now, CEO Jeff Jacober — who founded the company in 1996 with bank loans and his own savings and nurtured it into a business that does $ 15 million a year in revenue — needed cash to build up enough inventory to service the big pharmacy chains.

«It's very sad and I'm very conscious that this woman's family has suffered a tremendous loss, but if you think about the industry, it's the safest form of transportation ever built and it's done nothing but improve,» said John Cox, a former airline pilot who is now president of consulting company Safety Operating Systems.

Musk, 46, has built up a showman's reputation as the founder and chief executive officer of Tesla (tsla), calling on true believers to help him overcome the «haters» who question his company's ability to usher in an electric - vehicle age on an ambitious timetable.

With his boss's blessing, Cerilli quit his job at First Round, brought Matt Doumar — who had built SinglePlatform's entire product team — on board as a cofounder, and got started on a company that would eventually become known as Good Uncle.

It's building insurance companies; it's building pension funds; it's building whole structures that we need for long - term investments,» said Mark Tinker, who is Head of Framlington Equities Asia at AXA Investment Managers.

We have a series of outreach that occurs in terms of personal phone calls and other kinds of campaigns that are sent to these individuals to build awareness of who APT are since we are a smaller company.

This is a unique group of investors who are focused on building out bitcoin and blockchain technology, assisting startups and companies with developing in specific areas like compliance and regulation, payments, security, identity, smart contracts and more.

«We need someone who can build Tesla into the next great car company,» he says.

For example, it wouldn't surprise you to know that those who build great companies aren't the wishy - washy type, would it?