Sentences with phrase «with big bets»

With big bets on high - risk companies, many without revenues or even business plans, venture capitalists anointed millionaires by the dozens, along the way adding millions to their own net worth.

Not exact matches

I bet that someday I'll come across a big customer problem that's not being solved or well served by the industry, come up with an innovative solution, and start my own company.

The founder is betting that by associating Earth Angel with big names in the movie industry, the company will find opportunity for growth.

A year after announcing a big bet on Amazon, Silicon Valley investor Chamath Palihapitiya returned to the Sohn Investment Conference Monday with what he called a more controversial pick: Tesla.

Under Armour, which generated nearly $ 4 billion in sales last year, has reported consistent double - digit sales growth as it expands into new product categories, places a bigger bet on the women's market, and sees stronger brand interest with key athlete endorsement deals including NBA star Stephen Curry and golfer Jordan Spieth.

«The long - term bet is that by enabling people to have good organic interactions with businesses, that will end up being a massive multiplier on the value of the monetization down the road, when we really work on that, and really focus on that in a bigger way,» Zuckerberg said.

The fledgling company's next big bet was producing an electric rice cooker that was widely panned as being capable of little more than ruining a bowl of rice and leaving you with a wooden tub to clean.

Just as the Home Hardware and Ace Hardware brands rolled up all the independent stores in the»80s and»90s, the big money is betting it can do the same thing with collision repair.

And like the Prime Minister, who wagered cases from Beau's and Big Rock breweries in an Olympic hockey bet with President Barack Obama, the neighborhood's inhabitants like their microbrews.

So it's kind of a lower your expectations mindset, but it's still a market that I want to be involved with because, but it's just, it's not a time to bet big, you know, late cycle is a notoriously difficult part of the cycle to pin down, whereas midcycle is really the sweet spot.

And with the $ 2 - billion Canwest deal, Shaw Communications has just bet big on converging distribution assets with content.

Fujitsu, Pioneer and Panasonic quickly joined Philips in the market, with Panasonic soon becoming the most prominent plasma manufacturer, acquiring Pioneer's technology in 2009 as a big bet on plasma's future.

We work a bit like an internal startup incubator and venture capital fund with the exit strategy to compel Microsoft senior leadership to bet big on new things.»

Since then, commodities trading has come under pressure at big banks as funding costs have risen and regulators have clamped on their ability to make bets with their own money.

CEO David Crane is betting big on solar with plans to turn his company into an industry leader.

«While Canadians aren't dissatisfied with their cell phone service, they understand it could be better, and they're betting that a big player like Verizon could really shake out some of the cobwebs in the Canadian mobile market,» said Forum Research President, Dr. Lorne Bozinoff.

Combine this with the fact that the biggest provider so far, U.S. - based Gogo, is a publicly listed company that has a responsibility to deliver ever - increasing dividends to shareholders and it's a fair bet that wi - fi in the skies isn't going to be both good and affordable any time soon, despite what French defense contractors might say.

Carlsberg's Russian troubles have become a recurring theme since it placed a bet on the market with its biggest - ever acquisition in 2008.

He proved that with his big bad bet on IBM and now he's doing the same with Apple.

Expect bigger bets on juices, energy drinks, and plant - based / dairy offerings as Coke aims to remake itself to align with the healthier options consumers are gulping.

Ionic is a big bet by the decade - old company to get back on track after sales of its popular but simpler fitness tracking devices tanked last year, along with its revenue and its stock price.

After making a big bet on mobile several years ago, eBay CEO John Donahoe told CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» that the gamble is paying off with the company able to monetize the same on mobile as it does on the Web.

Before the split, Porat recalls, «research analysts were coming out with their range of estimates as to how big the operating loss would be in «other bets.»

Almost two decades ago, AT&T bet big on cable TV with a $ 100 billion spending spree.

Once the biggest startups begin to struggle, the work - arounds will proliferate — only with sellers dominating as investors flee bad bets.

While Alphabet CEO Larry Page can lean on his reputation as a tech visionary to make the case for big bets, Porat's arguments stand up only when underpinned with solid economic logic.

The company, with over $ 41 billion in sales last year, placed a bigger bet on the packaged meats space with the $ 7.7 billion acquisition of Hillshire Brands in 2014.

At the time of the launch, Facebook told Inc. that Workplace was a big bet for the company, on par in importance with other efforts like Instagram and Oculus.

So if you need a more traditional computer with a bigger screen, the Surface Laptop is your best bet.

One of the greatest financial bets of all time has landed the investor with one of the biggest - ever personal tax bills

Then, President Obama went to the Group of Twenty meeting, after Tim Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, had been on the phone with Europe, and said that if Greece didn't pay the French and German bondholders, the American banks had made huge bets and would go under — and so would big European banks who were counterparties.

The foundation paid out $ 230 million in grants in 2014, and with a $ 15 billion fortune waiting in the wings, we're betting that bigger things are yet to come.

Stealth firm Catalytic may be hesitant to say what it does, but with a founding team led by former Fieldglass CTO Sean Chou and serial entrepreneur Ravi Singh, you can bet it'll be big.

Play said its implied market capitalization based on the maximum price would be around 11.2 billion zlotys, with analysts betting it would make it to the WIG20 index, comprising the 20 biggest and most liquid companies listed in Warsaw.

Pressure from platforms has forced big media conglomerates to make massive bets, such as Disney's deal with 21st Century Fox.

The biggest winner, however, is anyone who has ever bet on sports games in office pools or with offshore sites or neighborhood bookies and wants to do it legally.

A three - step process to anticipate and shape change, beginning with the identification of 70 + macro drivers that were refined into 8 dynamics defining the future for connected consumers, which constituted the basis for a highly immersive two - day Future Forum bringing together 10 outside experts, 13 internal stakeholders and 14 agency partners, from which a consumer - centric company vision and Future Playbook was developed around «4 Big Bets» over near -, mid - and long - term horizons.

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«A final lesson from our bet: Stick with big, «easy» decisions and eschew activity.

Rivals have made big bets on TV while Vodafone has grappled with past geographic expansion.

Someone with a big pocket, for sure a professional, made a huge Gold bullish option bet during the last trading session.

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But the small city is taking a big bet to try to fix its lagging economy with a strategy that many of the tech elite have been largely only pontificating about: universal basic income...

But then at the G8 meetings in 2011, President Obama went over along with Tim Geithner and said, our big campaign contributors are on Wall Street, and they've made huge bets that Greece can pay.

But with interest paid on savings accounts low, Chinese investors appear willing to make big bets on stocks and real estate.

The U.S. government paid these obligations at 100 cents on the dollar, despite AIG being insolvent at the time and requiring a $ 185 billion taxpayer bailout itself for making casino - like bets with the big banks.

That happened with Ample — they found an investor who spent most of their time in adjacent spaces but didn't quite have the same risk tolerance to participate in a vision that included a big bet on a particular strategy.

I bet the Baptist group was indeed very big... A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30 % obesity rate compared with Jews at 1 %, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7 %.

You know, I bet if you slapped the rise in number of atheists / agnostics in the country on a graph with the decline in morality and good sense, you'd get a big fat X. It's pretty obvious which way things are going with a mere cursory glance at today's society.