Co-founder of Microsoft Co-founder and CEO of Facebook Founder and CEO of Amazon Co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, founder and CEO of SpaceX COO of Facebook Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, co-founder and CEO of Square CEO of Zappos Co-founder of PayPal, co-founder of Palantir
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Co-founder of Microsoft Co-founder and CEO of Facebook Founder and CEO of Amazon Co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, founder and CEO of SpaceX COO of Facebook Co-founder and CEO of Twitter, co-founder and CEO of Square CEO of Zappos Co-founder of PayPal, co-founder of Palantir
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Ayah Bdeir, Founder/CEO, Little BitsPiraye Beim, Founder/CEO, CelmatixMarc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation PartnersJohn Borthwick, Founder/CEO, BetaworksMatt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and XobniStacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbitBrad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square VenturesStewart Butterfield, Co-Founder/CEO, SlackTroy Carter, Founder/CEO, Atom FactorySukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder/CEO, JoyusVint Cerf, Internet PioneerAmy Chang, Founder/CEO, AccompanyAneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTOPatrick Chung, General Partner, XfundTod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHubStephen DeBerry, Founder/Managing Partner, Bronze InvestmentsPeter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLDBarry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IACEsther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; InvestorAmy Errett, Founder/CEO, Madison ReedCaterina Fake, Founder/CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, FlickrChristopher Farmer, Founder/CEO, SignalFireBrad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, TechstarsJosh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateXHajj Flemings, Founder/CEO, Brand Camp UniversityNatalie Foster, Co-Founder, PeersDavid Grain, Founder/Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLCBrad Hargreaves, Founder/CEO, CommonDonna Harris, Co-Founder/Co-CEO, 1776Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder/CEO, MeetupDavid Hornik, General Partner, August CapitalTerry Howerton, CEO, TechNexusReed Hundt, Former Chair, FCCMinnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift TechnologiesSami Inkinen, Founder/CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, TruliaCraig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift TechnologiesRev.
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Ayah Bdeir, Founder/CEO, Little Bits Piraye Beim, Founder/CEO, Celmatix Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder, Elevation Partners John Borthwick, Founder/CEO, Betaworks Matt Brezina, Co-Founder, Sincerely and Xobni Stacy Brown-Philpot, CEO, TaskRabbit Brad Burnham, Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder/CEO, Slack Troy Carter, Founder/CEO, Atom Factory Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Founder/CEO, Joyus Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Amy Chang, Founder/CEO, Accompany Aneesh Chopra, President, NavHealth; Former US CTO Patrick Chung, General Partner, Xfund Tod Cohen, General Counsel, StubHub Stephen DeBerry, Founder/Managing Partner, Bronze Investments Peter Diamandis, Entrepreneur; Author, Abundance and BOLD Barry Diller, Chairman, Expedia and IAC Esther Dyson, Executive Founder, Way to Wellville; Investor Amy Errett, Founder/CEO, Madison Reed Caterina Fake, Founder/CEO, Findery; Co-Founder, Flickr Christopher Farmer, Founder/CEO, SignalFire Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group; Co-Founder, Techstars Josh Felser, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital & ClimateX Hajj Flemings, Founder/CEO, Brand Camp University Natalie Foster, Co-Founder, Peers David Grain, Founder/Managing Partner, Grain Management, LLC Brad Hargreaves, Founder/CEO, Common Donna Harris, Co-Founder/Co-CEO, 1776 Scott Heiferman, Co-Founder/CEO, Meetup David Hornik, General Partner, August Capital Terry Howerton, CEO, TechNexus Reed Hundt, Former Chair, FCC Minnie Ingersoll, COO, Shift Technologies Sami Inkinen, Founder/CEO, Virta Health; Co-Founder, Trulia Craig Isakow, Head of Revenue, Shift Technologies Rev.
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Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg SchoolLuther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, YelpNancy Lublin, Founder/CEO, Crisis Text LineKanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder/CEO, ZendriveJosh McFarland, Vice President of Product, TwitterAndrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworksShishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTubeApoorva Mehta, Founder/CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, SplunkDinesh Moorjani, Founder/CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, TinderBrit Morin, Founder/CEO, Brit + CoDave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow VenturesDustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, FacebookAmanda Moskowitz, Founder/CEO, StacklistAlex Nogales, President/CEO, National Hispanic Media CoalitionAlexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, RedditMike Olson, Founder/Chairman/CSO, ClouderaPierre Omidyar, Founder, eBayFelix W. Ortiz III, Founder/Chairman/CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development CorporationJen Pahlka, Founder/Executive Director, Code for AmericaBarney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity UniversityMark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, ZyngaShervin Pishevar, Co-Founder/Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co-Founder/Executive Chairman of Hyperloop OneBrandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776Amy Rao, Founder/CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc.
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They include Johannes Reck (co-founder of GetYourGuide), Lucas von Cranach (co-founder of Onefootball), Roland Grenke (co-founder of Dubsmash), Philip Petrescu (co-founder of Lendico), Verena Pausder (co-founder of Fox & Sheep), Arndt Ellinghorst (German automotive expert), and Oliver Mickler (co-founder Tillhub, co-founder MyDriver and the first angel backer of Movinga).
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The latter includes Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress, Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps, Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Transferwise, and Michael Birch, co-founder of Bebo.
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Mark Lloyd, Professor of Communication, University of Southern California — Annenberg School Luther Lowe, VP of Public Policy, Yelp Nancy Lublin, Founder/CEO, Crisis Text Line Kanyi Maqubela, Partner, Collaborative Fund Jonathan Matus, Founder/CEO, Zendrive Josh McFarland, Vice President of Product, Twitter Andrew McLaughlin, Head of New Business, Medium; Venture Partner, betaworks Shishir Mehrotra, Entrepreneur & former VP of Product & Engineering, YouTube Apoorva Mehta, Founder/CEO, Instacart Doug Merritt, CEO, Splunk Dinesh Moorjani, Founder/CEO, Hatch Labs; Co-Founder, Tinder Brit Morin, Founder/CEO, Brit + Co Dave Morin, Entrepreneur; Partner, Slow Ventures Dustin Moskovitz, Co-Founder, Asana; Co-Founder, Facebook Amanda Moskowitz, Founder/CEO, Stacklist Alex Nogales, President/CEO, National Hispanic Media Coalition Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder, Reddit Mike Olson, Founder/Chairman/CSO, Cloudera Pierre Omidyar, Founder, eBay Felix W. Ortiz III, Founder/Chairman/CEO, Viridis; Board Member of The NYC Technology Development Corporation Jen Pahlka, Founder/Executive Director, Code for America Barney Pell, Founder Powerset, MoonExpress, Locomobi; Founding Trustee, Singularity University Mark Pincus, Executive Chairman and Founder, Zynga Shervin Pishevar, Co-Founder/Managing Director, Sherpa Capital and Co-Founder/Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One Brandon Pollack, Director of Global Affairs, 1776 Amy Rao, Founder/CEO, Integrated Archive Systems, Inc.
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Along with Andy, General Magic's alumni includes Tony Fadell (iPod, iPhone, and founder of Nest), Megan Smith (founder of Planet Out, CTO of the United States), Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger and founder of Android), and Pierre Omidyar (founder of eBay).
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This round was led by Accomplice, and backed by Kayak co-founder Paul English, Wufoo co-founder Kevin Hale, Klaviyo co-founder Andrew Bialecki, Drift co-founder Elias Torres, Front co-founder Mathilde Collin and Podium co-founders Eric Rea and Dennis Steele.
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Individual LPs include Rolf Schrömgens (co-founder and CEO of Trivago), Rene Köhler (founder and CEO Internetstores), Holger Hengstler (co-founder dress-for-less), and Brian O'Kelley (founder and CEO of AppNexus).
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To surmount those humps, Catch assembled a huge list of angel investors who've built a range of financial services, including NerdWallet founder Jake Gibson, Earnest founders Louis Beryl and Ben Hutchinson, ANDCO (acquired by Fiverr) founder Leif Abraham, Totem founder Neal Khosla, Commuter Club founder Petko Plachkov, Playable (acquired by Stripe) founder Tad Milbourn and Synapse founder Bruno Faviero.
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Joe Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of ConsenSys, Enigma founder and CEO Guy Zyskind, Monaco CEO and co-founder Kris Marszalek, EximChain CEO and co-founder Hope Liu, and Jim Fruchterman, CEO and founder of Benetech, will all join us for the show — the first TechCrunch event dedicated to the topic of blockchain.
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The remaining €900,000 came via angel investors including: David Fellah (Founder of Designit); Per Zachariassen (Founder of Blu and Skylark); Henrik Hancke (Founder of Blu and Skylark); and Kasper Wedendahl (Founder of Bacon).
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In addition, a number of high-profile angel investors participated, including Supercell founder Ilkka Paananen, UiPath founder Daniel Dines, Intercom founder Des Traynor, GoCardless COO Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas and Miro founder Andrey Khusid.
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The founder, what happens to the journey of the founder?
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Anton Chirkunov, founder of Wheely Anton Chirkunov, founder of Wheely
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Brian Hamilton is the co-founder of Sageworks, the founder of Inmates to Entrepreneurs and the founder of the Brian Hamilton Foundation.
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Here are five creative approaches that successful entrepreneurs like Daymond John (founder of FUBU), Sara Blakely (founder of Spanx), Jack Dorsey (co-founder of Twitter and Square), Marc Benioff (founder of Salesforce) and others used.
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Jenny Wolfram is the founder and CEO and founder of BrandBastion.
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The seek founder, Paul Bassat, is a founder of Square Peg.
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Boston Consulting Group reports that for every dollar a female founder or co-founder raises, she generates 214X more revenue than a male founder.
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Other entrepreneurs leading their respective Angel Funds include Thumbtack co-founder Jonathan Swanson, Gigster co-founder Roger Dickey, and NOW Ventures founder Shiza Shahid.
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Dubbed the "PayPal Mafia," the group includes some of the region's most successful entrepreneurs, such as Tesla founder Elon Musk, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Yammer founder David Sacks, Affirm founder and CEO Max Levchin and many more.
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Anathem Ventures CEO/founder Crystal McKellar Anathem Ventures CEO/founder Crystal McKellar
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It's raised a $2m seed round from Passion Capital (with Passion partner Eileen Burbidge joining as Chairman), LocalGlobe, Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman, William Reeve (co-founder from Lovefilm), Greg Marsh (founder from One Fine Stay), Songkick's co-founder Ian Hogarth, serial fintech investor Errol Damelin and Albion founder Jason Goodman.
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The round was led by True Ventures, and includes participation from Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover, Eventbrite founder Kevin Hartz and InVision founder Clark Valberg.
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But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict , 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict.
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They comprise Nalden (co-founder WeTransfer), Koen Bok (co-founder Sofa, acquired by Facebook), Robert Gaal (co-founder Wakoopa and Karma, Google Product Manager), Hampus Jakobson (co-founder TAT, acquired by RIM), Woodwing Ventures and Digital Leaders Ventures.
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The panelists included Oren Falkowitz, CEO and founder of Area 1 Security; Nathaniel Fick, CEO and founder of Endgame; Jay Kaplan, CEO and founder of Synack.
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CoinLab co-founder Peter Vessenes CoinLab co-founder Peter Vessenes This week, CoinLab co-founder Peter Vessenes increased the claim and is now seeking $16 billion.
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Google co-founder Eric Schmidt, Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and Tumblr founder David Karp all appear on the list endorsing Clinton, as does Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg.
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Among those newcomer self-made business owners were Arizona Beverages co-founder Don Vultaggio, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and Tito's Handmade Vodka founder Tito Beveridge.
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So in addition to T2D3, my firm and I are now focusing on another founder journey: F2C, or the transition from founder/CEO to CEO/founder.
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Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH CoalitionIrwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman/CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm IncPaul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm IncLeila Janah, Founder/CEO, Sama & LaxmiSujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital PartnersMark Josephson, CEO, BitlySep Kamvar, Professor, MITDavid Karp, Founder/CEO, TumblrJed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture PartnersKim Keenan, President/CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet CouncilBen Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, AppleWilliam Kennard, Former Chair, FCCVinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN MicrosystemsRon Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLCWalter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit PartnersJared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, WorldlyJoseph Kopser, Co-Founder, RidescoutKaren Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co-Founder/President, Color GenomicsMiles Lasater, Serial EntrepreneurJeff Lawson, CEO, TwilioAileen Lee, Founder/Managing Partner, Cowboy VenturesBobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven CapitalAaron Levie, Co-Founder/CEO, BoxJohn Lilly, Partner, Greylock PartnersBruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon HarlemRuth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc.
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That's not necessarily founder ego so much as it is just founder focused.
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The latter includes Robinhood co-founder Vladimir Tenev and Zendesk founder Mikkel Svane.
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Jared Spool is the founder of UIE and co-founder of Center Centre.
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They include WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton and Snapchat co-founder Bobby Murphy.
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He was co-founder, with Jonathan Klein; he was not the sole founder.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel are also investors.
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JB: Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, [Alibaba founder] Jack Ma, [Tencent founder] Pony Ma, [Baidu founder] Robin Li — these are phenomenal founder-driven companies and I expect the Apples, Facebooks, Amazons, Alphabets, and Baidus will only get stronger in many ways.
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Meanwhile, Pointy's previous backers include Draper Associates, Frontline Ventures, and notable angel investors such as Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress), Lars Rasmussen (co-founder of Google Maps), Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of TransferWise), and Michael Birch (co-founder of Bebo).
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Additionally, it will be emblazoned with the likeness of one of five different "Startup Heroes" in the form of Danae Ringelmann (co-founder of Indiegogo), Tim Draper (founder of Draper University and Draper Dark Flow), Céline Lazorthes (founder of Leetchi), Shai Wininger (founder of Lemonade and Fiverr) and Dennis Wang (founder of Easy Taxi).
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He's already met with SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Blue Origin's founder Jeff Bezos.
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Renegade founder and chief executive Cathy Horton Renegade founder and chief executive Cathy Horton
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It was dogecoin's co-founder, not dogetipbot's co-founder that issued the second note.
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Byte founder Dom Hofmann Byte founder Dom Hofmann Byte is a long time coming.
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Credit Suisse Founder was also an adviser for Founder Securities' own I.P.O. in 2011.
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They&aposve countered this in recent years by being founder-driven and founder-focused.
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David Novak, founder and CEO of oGoLead; founder, retired Chairman and CEO of Yum!
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He was a co-founder, with Jonathan Klein; he was not the sole founder.
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Homebrew and Susa Ventures also participated, along with various angel investors, including Docker co-founder Solomon Hykes, Mesosphere co-founder Florian Leibert and Looker co-founder Ben Porterfield.
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Also participating is former Spotify CMO and now Atomico partner Sophia Bendz, Supercell founder Ilkka Paananen, Moo co-founder Richard Moross, Wonga founder Errol Damelin and Climate Corp.
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Statwing had raised an undisclosed amount of money from Y Combinator and angel investors, including Cloudera founder Jeff Hammerbacher, Slicehost founder Jason Seats, and IndexTank founder Diego Basch.
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Zocdoc founder Cyrus Massoumi and Indiegogo founder Slava Rubin have created a new $30 million fund called Humbition aimed at early stage, founder-led companies in New York.
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Taplin interprets that philosophy liberally and applies it to several Big Tech moguls, especially PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel; Google co-founder Larry Page; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Some angels included Casey Neistat, former CEO and chairman of Campari Gerry Ruvo, Away co-founder Jen Rubio, Superhuman founder Rahul Vohra and Yelp co-founder Russell Simmons.
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The selections included high-profile founders such as Elon Musk, co-founder of Telsa, as well as Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick.
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Quora co-founder and CEO Adam D'Angelo Quora co-founder and CEO Adam D'Angelo "The ads product is actually going pretty well," says co-founder and CEO Adam D'Angelo.
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Listed on the 2014 roster are: Joseph Farah, founder and CEO of WND; Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax founder, CEO and president; and Neil Patel, co-founder of The Daily Caller.
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He's joined by Zoopla co-founder Alex Chesterman, Wonga co-founder Errol Damelin, Albion co-founder and Atomico Executive-in-Residence Jason Goodman, Atomico Partner and The Climate Corp.
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I've always said that I think of myself as a founder, not a female founder.
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Matthew Dibb is the founder of Incipient IT and co-founder and CEO of ChildsPass.
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Obama the "founder of ISIS" is appropriate: "He is the founder of ISIS, absolutely." pic.twitter.
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Stephen Buck, co-founder of cancer-advisory site Courage Health and co-founder of GoodRx.
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He was a co-founder, along with Elaine and Louis Lorillard, not the sole founder.
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Co-Founder, Partner of Earlybird Dr. Christian Nagel is Co-Founder and Partner of Earlybird.
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People like Vinay Gupta, founder of Mattererum and Kaidi Ruusalepp, founder and CEO of Funderbeam.
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Bumble's founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, was also a co-founder of popular dating app Tinder.
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Soraya Deen is founder of the Muslim Women Speakers Movement and co-founder of Peacemoms.
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Ben Cohen is the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and founder of StampStampede.
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Oura Health, a sleep-tracking and sleep-improvement platform, just surpassed $20 million* in a funding round led by MSD Capital with participation from YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Sunrise founder Dave Morin, JUMP founder Ryan Rzepecki and others.
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Javelin Venture Partners has led the round, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Advancit Capital, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and MasterClass co-founder David Rogier.
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The round was led by Emerge, with participation from BoxGroup, Blacktop, Kaedan and Tectonic, along with InVision founder Clark Valberg, The Muse founder Kathryn Minshew and Sense360 founder Eli Portnoy.
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Table Management, Sinai Ventures, Cheddar founder Jon Steinberg and Moat co-founder Jonah Goodhart also participated.
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A/O PropTech founder and CEO Gregory Dewerpe A/O PropTech founder and CEO Gregory Dewerpe
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Dr. Ng is the co-founder of Coursera, an online learning platform, and founder of deeplearning.
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Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Women Who Tech founder Allyson Kapin want to improve these statistics.
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DOVU also includes co-founder and CMO Arwen Smit, and co-founder and COO Krasina Mileva.
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Seydoux is still credited as co-founder and Olivier Levy acts as co-founder and CEO.
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Key investors include technology giants Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
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Sell is co-founder of Wickr Foundation and co-chair and co-founder of Wickr Inc.
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Flatiron Health founder Nat Turner and One Medical founder Tom Lee also participated in the round.
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Adam K. Levin is chairman and founder of CyberScout (formerly IDT911) and co-founder of Credit.com.
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Genies co-founder and CEO Akash Nigam Genies co-founder and CEO Akash Nigam While at University Of Michiga, Nigam met his co-founder Evan Rosenbaum who was Univesity Of Pennsylvania.
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Others on Authenticated Reality's founding team include Darin Andersen (CEO, former chairman/founder of CyberTECH), Jessica Strickland (co-founder and Chief Social Officer) and Peter Zed (co-founder and Lead Developer).
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The fund's investors include Masayoshi Son, founder and CEO of SoftBank Group Corp, LinkedIn Corp co-founder Reid Hoffman, Amazon Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson.
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The team behind Little Spoon also consists of co-founder Michelle Muller as the "chief mom," co-founder and CEO Ben Lewis, and co-founder and chief product officer Angela Vranich.
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Previous Spearhead leads include Shippo co-founder and chief executive officer Laura Behrens Wu, Scale AI founder and CEO Alex Wang and Rippling co-founder and chief technology officer Prasanna Sankar.
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Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Hyperloop One Adrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, Forward Greg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, Facebook Clayton Banks, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Phin Barnes, Partner, First Round Capital Niti Bashambu, Chief Analytics Officer, IAC Applications John Battelle, Founder/CEO, NewCo, Inc.
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Other participants include Aglaé Ventures, the tech investment arm of French holding company Groupe Arnault, WhatsApp co-founder and former CEO Jan Koum, DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Xu, Oscar Health co-founder Josh Kushner, SB Project co-founder Scooter Braun and returning investor Samsung Ventures.
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The petition includes the names of 145 people who are against Trump's policies including big names such as Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield, IAC Chairman Barry Diller, Tumblr founder David Karp, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams and the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak.
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Clearbanc has signed up Jack Abraham, the founder and managing partner of Atomic, Hubble co-founder Jesse Horwitz, Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover and more to support the new venture partner network.
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Among those who have limited how much tech their kids consume are Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, tech billionaire Mark Cuban and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.
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Juro is announcing Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise's co-founder) as an investor now too, as well as Michael Pennington (Gumtree co-founder) and the family office of Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed.com).
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A quick sample of other speakers includes Kaidi Ruusalepp, founder and CEO of Funderbeam, Mike Collett, founder and managing partner at Promus Ventures, and Jamie Burke, CEO and founder of Outlier Ventures.
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Jesse L. Jackson Sr., President and Founder, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Irwin Jacobs, Founding Chairman/CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm Inc Paul Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm Inc Leila Janah, Founder/CEO, Sama & Laxmi Sujay Jaswa, Former CFO, Dropbox; Founder, Witt Capital Partners Mark Josephson, CEO, Bitly Sep Kamvar, Professor, MIT David Karp, Founder/CEO, Tumblr Jed Katz, Managing Director, Javelin Venture Partners Kim Keenan, President/CEO, Multicultural Media, Telecom & Internet Council Ben Keighran, Entrepreneur; Former Design Lead, Apple William Kennard, Former Chair, FCC Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures; Co-Founder, SUN Microsystems Ron Klain, Executive Vice President, Revolution LLC Walter Kortschak, Former Managing Partner and Senior Advisor, Summit Partners Jared Kopf, Founder AdRoll, HomeRun, Worldly Joseph Kopser, Co-Founder, Ridescout Karen Kornbluh, Former US Ambassador, OECD Othman Laraki, Co-Founder/President, Color Genomics Miles Lasater, Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Lawson, CEO, Twilio Aileen Lee, Founder/Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures Bobby Lent, Managing Partner, Hillsven Capital Aaron Levie, Co-Founder/CEO, Box John Lilly, Partner, Greylock Partners Bruce Lincoln, Co-Founder, Silicon Harlem Ruth Livier, President, Livier Productions, Inc.
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Neufund co-founder and the co-founder of KR1 will discuss building businesses based on the blockchain.
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Co-founder Sam Rosen has stepped down and co-founder and COO Rahul Gandhi will become CEO.
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Paulo Gomes is the founder of Constelor Investment and a co-founder of New African Capital Partners.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Apple founder Steve Jobs both shared third place with six votes each.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, eBay's Pierre Omidyar and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang were all immigrants.
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And I would say the co-founder would be Crooked Hillary Clinton—co-founder, Crooked Hillary Clinton.
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Other top San Francisco donors include LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and online brokerage founder Charles Schwab.
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She is also the founder of Classic Album Sundays and co-founder of Lucky Cloud Loft Party.
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One gaming founder who experienced the full gamut of entrepreneurial emotion is Thor Fridriksson, founder of QuizUp.
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Patrisse Cullors is the founder of Dignity and Power Now and co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
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Scott Chacon, co-founder of GitHub, and Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker, also participated in the round.
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The average female founder owns just 39 cents in equity for every $1 a male founder owns.
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Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean StartupJustin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, AsanaAlec Ross, Author, The Industries of the FutureJavier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBAChris Sacca, Founder/Chairman, Lowercase CapitalDave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle CapitalJulie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech:NYCReshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who CodeChris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup RisingJake Schwartz, Co-Founder/CEO, General AssemblyRobert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VRKim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, GoogleTina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa CapitalClara Shih, Co-Founder/CEO, Hearsay SocialShivani Siroya, Founder/CEO, InVentureSteve Smith, Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH CoalitionJonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile FutureDeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTVKatie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, TwitterJenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject; Board of Directors, UshahidiDebby Sterling, Founder/CEO, GoldibloxSeth Sternberg, Co-Founder/CEO, HonorMargaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, FacebookJeremy Stoppelman, CEO, YelpMichael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, YelpBaratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder/CEO, Vida Health; Board of Directors, Seagate TechnologyRichard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, SamsungAnne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round CapitalApril Underwood, VP of Product, SlackMax Ventilla, Founder/CEO, AltSchoolTabreez Verjee, Co-Founder/Partner Uprising; Board Director Kiva.
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This season features some new guest sharks, including Katrina Lake, the chief executive and founder of Stitch Fix; Daniel Lubetzky, the founder and chief executive of Kind snacks company; Maria Sharapova, the tennis champion and founder of Sugarpova; and Anne Wojcicki, a co-founder and chief executive of 23andMe.
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They include Nils Regge (founder of HomeToGo and Dreamlines), Gleb Tritus (MD Lufthansa Innovation Hub), Manuel Stotz (founder of Kingsway Capital), Mato Peric (founder of Immo), Andreas Brehmke, Loric Ventures, and Lions Venture.
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At TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016, we're going to chat with Maple CEO co-founder and CEO Caleb Merkl, Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Nicolas Jammet, and Blue Apron founder and CEO Matt Salzberg.
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OpsRamp co-founder and CEO Varma Kunaparaju OpsRamp co-founder and CEO Varma Kunaparaju According to OpsRamp co-founder and CEO Varma Kunaparaju, most of the company's customers are mid to large enterprises.
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Speakers include: Layla Amjadi, Product Manager, Instagram ShoppingMichelle Cordeiro Grant, Founder & CEO, LIVELYJack Forestell, Chief Product Officer, VisaArpan Podduturi, Director of Product, ShopifyGeoff Ramsey, Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist, eMarketerAnushka Salinas, Chief Operating Officer, Rent the RunwayMaggie Winter, Co-Founder and CEO, AYRJohn Targon, Founder and Design Director, Fall RiskLeandra Medine, Founder, Man RepellerFor more information on the conference and to apply to attend, click here.
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Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Foundation, co-founder of Jiyo and The Chopra Center for Wellbeing.
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Other investors include Christian Faes (founder and CEO of LendInvest) and Charles Delingpole (founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage).
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She is the founder of Justice for Migrant Women and the co-founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas.
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"Historically, founder-led companies go through existential crises after the founder is gone," said Asymco analyst Horace Dediu.
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Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai, and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley are also investors in the new venture.
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Meet Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter: Toure is the founder of the group Black Guns Matter.
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Who: Anthony Di IorioWhat: Co-founder of Ethereum, CEO and founder of Decentral and Jaxx What is Bitcoin?
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That included its co-founder/CTO, Orion Hindawi, taking the place of the other co-founder as CEO.
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The startup is also being advised by Stack Overflow founder Joel Spolsky, and Trello co-founder Michael Pryor.
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The next in the series is Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter and the founder of Medium.
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THE FOUNDER Michael Keaton in 1950s cocky-guy mode as Ray Kroc, the so-called founder of McDonald's.
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He's the founder, he founded ISIS and I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.
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THE FOUNDER Michael Keaton in 21979s cocky-guy mode as Ray Kroc, the so-called founder of McDonald's.
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She is the principal and founder of Rilax Strategies and is co-founder of Women Influencers Network (WIN).
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Smartcar founder and CEO Sahas Katta Smartcar founder and CEO Sahas Katta Otonomo has pulled down their docs.otonomo.
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Son is the third-richest person in Japan after Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai and Keyence founder Takemitsu Takizaki.
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American Apparel founder is back, and unapologetic American Apparel founder is back, and unapologetic Dov Charney is back.
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David Novak is the founder and CEO of oGoLead and the founder, retired Chairman and CEO of Yum!
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He's also co-founder of Revolution Growth, a venture capital firm run by AOL co-founder Steve Case.
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The co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, is the former wife of Google founder Sergey Brin.
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Your family is one of the only founder families of an illness—you know who the founder is.
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In addition, matches are coming from the likes of 500 Startups co-founder Dave McClure, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, Foundry Group and TechStars managing director Brad Feld and Crowdpac co-founder Gisel Kordestani.
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And here's the full list of signees, along with their titles: Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Hyperloop OneAdrian Aoun, Founder/CEO, ForwardGreg Badros, Founder, Prepared Mind Innovations; Former Engineering VP, FacebookClayton Banks, Co-Founder, Silicon HarlemPhin Barnes, Partner, First Round CapitalNiti Bashambu, Chief Analytics Officer, IAC ApplicationsJohn Battelle, Founder/CEO, NewCo, Inc.
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Featuring the Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, the Stitch Fix co-founder Katrina Lake, the Lyft co-founder John Zimmer, and the Carol's Daughter founder Lisa Price, the event established Mr. Raz as one of radio's most marketable personalities, up there with the likes of Ira Glass and Terry Gross.
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Also participating is Brent Hoberman's Founders Factory, and angel investors Errol Damelin (Wonga founder and renowned fintech investor), Richard Glynn (former Ladbrokes CEO and founder of Alinsky Partners) and David Pritchard (founder of OpenTable Europe).
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They include Cristina Stenbeck, Jeff Wilkes (Amazon), Justin Mateen (co-founder of Tinder), Nicolas Brusson (CEO and co-founder of BlaBlaCar), Sebastian Knutsson (co-founder of King), Spencer Rascoff (CEO of Zillow) and Keith Richman.
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The company has already raised $4 million from a group of angel investors that includes the likes of Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston, PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale and Twitch.
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Notable other investors include Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and David Braben, the CEO and Founder of Frontier Developments.
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It should be a female founder pitching a VC. And one the top VCs ... KS: Or just a founder.
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Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake and Forerunner founder and general partner Kirsten Green, are among the company's board members.
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Ma Hui's class of 30 big-name limited partners count Bytedance founder Zhang Yiming and Meituan founder Wang Xing.
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Notable billionaire graduates include chairman and founder of Charles Schwab Charles R. Schwab, and Nike co-founder Phil Knight.
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Uber is using a single-class structure, in part because its founder/CEO is now its founder/ex-CEO.
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That has been the experience of Manifold Technology founder and CEO Chris Finan and his co-founder Robert Seger.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and the head of Google, Sundar Pichari, have sided with Cook.
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The round also included individual angels like Joe Gebbia (Airbnb co-founder) and Larry Gagosian (founder of Gagosian Gallery).
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And Nalden, a co-founder of WeTransfer, was also a co-founder of Present Plus, along with Damian Bradfield.
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One startup founder to go public in his criticism is Tom Adeyoola, founder of virtual fitting room startup Metail.
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"Being a founder can be really lonely," said Lisa Barnett, a founder of the baby food company Little Spoon.
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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has invested in the company, along with Twitter founder Evan Williams and Zynga founder Mark Pincus.
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MaziRasulnia MBA, MPH is the founder of M Consulting and co-founder and president of PACK Health in Birmingham.
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Ms. Singh Cassidy is the founder and chairman of Joyus, a video shopping site, and a founder of theBoardlist.
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ST) Chief Executive Karl-Johan Persson, Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, and former Tesla (TSLA.
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Investors include Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, and Subtraction Capital.
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Lane-Fox is a partner at Founders Forum, Co-founder and CEO of Founders Factory, Co-founder of SmartUp.
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Shortly after her expose, allegations against Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure surfaced.
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That makes him the third-richest person in Japan after Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai and Keyence founder Takemitsu Takizaki.
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Successful leaders that prioritize sleep include Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Other angel investors include Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.
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Founder and CEO Aaron Rasmussen previously helped to popularize online learning as co-founder and creative director at MasterClass.
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Ben Cohen is the co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and the founder and head stamper of StampStampede.
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" By the next day, he was calling President Barack Obama the "founder of ISIS " and Clinton his "co-founder.
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Howard Marks is co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management and a co-founder of No Labels.
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Other investors include Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb; and Sky Dayton, founder of the digital services company, EarthLink.
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They include investment firm L Catterton, Thrive Capital, Shumway Capital, the art dealer Larry Gagosian (founder of Gagosian Gallery), Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, members of the Rockefeller and Acquavella families, Greg Maffei of Liberty Media, Dasha Zhukova (Artsy co-founder, founder of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and partner of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich), board members Wendi Murdoch (also an Artsy co-founder), Sky Dayton (Earthlink, Boingo), and new board members Rich Barton (Expedia, Glassdoor, Zillow) and Bob Pittman (MTV co-founder, iHeartMedia CEO).
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Cloosiv founder Tim Griffin tells me that investors in the round include Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham, Roger Dickey (Founder and former CEO of Gigster), Avichal Garg (former Facebook Director of Product Management), Ken Deeter, Brad Powers (CTO of Passport), and John Kim (co-founder of the chat API company SendBird).
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A number of major European start-ups have signed the single market pledge, including Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype and venture capital firm Atomico, Frédéric Mazzella, co-founder of BlaBlaCar, and SoundCloud co-founder Eric Wahlforss.
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Quit Genius was built by doctors — Yusuf Sherwani (co-founder and CEO), Maroof Ahmed (co-founder and COO), and Sarim Siddiqui (co-founder and head of product) — who met on the first day of medical school.
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Quit Genius was built by doctors — Yusuf Sherwani (co-founder and CEO), Maroof Ahmed (co-founder and COO) and Sarim Siddiqui (co-founder and head of product) — who met on the first day of medical school.
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The newly formed fund, put together by Qualtrics co-founder Ryan Smith, Omniture and Domo founder Josh James and Stance co-founder turned Pelion Venture Partners' Jeff Kearl, pledges to invest solely in Utah-based startups.
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A who's who of solo investors also participated, including Color Genomics co-founder Elad Gil, #Angels founder Jana Messerschmidt, Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross, Docker co-founder Solomon Hykes and Insight Data Science CEO Jake Klamka.
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The latter includes Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed), Shakil Khan (an early investor in Spotify), Matt Robinson (co-founder of Nested and GoCardless), Duncan Jennings (founder of VoucherCodes) and Carlos Gonzalez-Cadenas (COO at GoCardless).
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An apparent favorite of Peter Thiel, the PayPal founder, and Peter Theil, the Gawken founder, but widely panned by Gawker.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs are two of the most legendary technology leaders in history.
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Jane Chen, a founder of Embrace, a maker of portable infant warmers, met Marc Benioff, the billionaire founder of Salesforce.
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Below is the transcript of an interview with Founder and Chair, Redress; Founder and CEO, The R Collective's Christina Dean.
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Stratolaunch also announced it was scaling back rocket development following the death of its founder, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and founder of SpaceX, made a surprise appearance on the Westworld panel at SXSW.
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The mistake that my co-founder and I made was in avoiding the dynamics of our co-founder marriage altogether.
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As a founder and investor, Cohort Founder Eamon Leonard was constantly being asked for recommendations and introductions to product people.
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Panda founder Daniel Singer Panda founder Daniel Singer Meanwhile, Singer had spent the last 6 years FaceTiming almost every day.
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Red flag #8: It's a very bad sign if your founder or co-founder is borrowing money from team members.
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Read more from Business Insider's Founder Frenemies special report:Silicon Valley's founder-led startups have lost their shine with IPO investors.
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The writer, a human-rights activist, is the founder of Run for Congo Women and co-founder of Sister Somalia.
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Hrag Vartanian, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief Veken Gueyikian, Co-founder and Publisher Become a Hyperallergic Member – Join Us!
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But of the 134 US-based "unicorn" companies, just 14 have a woman as a founder, co-founder, or CEO.
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"The most difficult transition any company will ever go through is from founder-led to founder-inspired," Mr. Johnson said.
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Jordan's new partners will be Gabe Plotkin, a founder of Melvin Capital, and Daniel Sundheim, a founder of DI Capital.
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Mindy Finn is the co-founder of pro-democracy organization Stand Up Republic and founder of non-profit Empowered Women.
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She is the co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and founder of Earth Uprising, a youth-led climate organization.
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates once again to become the world's richest person.
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For a short time Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the richest person alive.
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Others, like Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson are part of the admirable 5 a.m.
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Mindy Finn is the co-founder of pro-democracy organization Stand Up Republic and founder of non-profit Empowered Women.
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That idea has been championed by other billionaire entrepreneurs, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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And it mischaracterized Cornelissens's role in the founding of Graanmarkt 13; she was the store's co-founder, not its founder.
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The Creators Project had the opportunity to hop on a Skype call with Sosolimited co-founder Eric Gunther, Plebian Design founder Jeff Lieberman, and Hypersonic founder, Bill Washabaugh, about the technology, engineering, and installation of Diffusion Choir.
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The investment round includes Alex Chesterman, founder and CEO of Zoopla, Simon Franks (LoveFilm founder), Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise founder), as well as the early stage venture funds Seedcamp, 500 Startups and the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF).
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You'll hear from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer; Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi; Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel; Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek; and Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky.
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Other investors include YC, F7 Ventures, Cleo Capital, Julia Collins (co-founder of Zume Pizza and Planet Forward), Lukas Biewald (co-founder of CrowdFlower), Nicolas Pinto (co-founder of Perceptio) and a number of other angel investors.
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Billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman talks with visionary billionaire entrepreneurs like Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings and Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to get the stories of and secrets to their success.
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Others who became billionaires in 2012, according to Forbes:Kevin Plank, recently ousted founder of Under Armour ($1.8 billion)Spanx founder Sara Blakely ($1.1 billion)Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' widow and founder of Emerson Collective ($23.5 billion)
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They include YouTube co-founder and CTO Steve Chen, Quora CEO and former Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo, former Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal, PayPal and Affirm co-founder Max Levchin, MuleSoft co-founder and CTO Ross Mason, Google director of engineering Parisa Tabriz and Facebook's first female engineer and South Park Commons founder Ruchi Sanghvi.
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Let's start with the funding, which was led by Bain Capital Ventures along with an all-star list of participants including Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, former YouTube CTO/co-founder Steve Chen, former Skype CTO/co-founder Jaan Tallinn, Cloudera CTO/co-founder Amr Awadallah and Tinder CMO/co-founder Justin Mateen.
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You'll hear from some of the best and brightest minds in the business — people like Station F Director Roxanne Varza, Gett Founder and CEO Shahar Waiser, DeepMind Technologies co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, Invoke Capital founder Michael Lynch, Passion Capital Partner Eileen Burbidge and Crowdpac co-founder and CEO Steve Hilton, to name a few.
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BEV, the lead investor in Malta's Series A round, was created in 2016 by the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, an investor group that includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, John Doerr, chairman of venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, and SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner.
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Here&aposs the agenda: State of RetailGeoff Ramsey, Co-Founder/ Chief Evangelist, eMarketer Cool, Cult and ConnectedJohn Targon, Founder and Design Director, Fall Risk and Maggie Winter, CEO and Co-founder, AYR, in conversation with Leandra Medine, Founder, Man Repeller Leveling the eCommerce Playing FieldMary Kay Bowman, Head of Global Seller Solutions, Visa Inc.
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The entire CrossCut Ventures team: (from right) associate Sarah Moret; Clinton Foy, managing director; Brett Brewer, co-founder and managing director; Brian Garrett, co-founder and managing director; Rick Smith, co-founder and managing director; Michael Tam, associate The entire CrossCut Ventures team: (from right) associate Sarah Moret; Clinton Foy, managing director; Brett Brewer, co-founder and managing director; Brian Garrett, co-founder and managing director; Rick Smith, co-founder and managing director; Michael Tam, associate From that small, first fund, things grew slowly and steadily for the partners at CrossCut, Garrett said.
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From right to left: Vamsi Krishna, CEO and co-founder; Anand Prakash, co-founder; and Pulkit Jain, co-founder and head of product From right to left: Vamsi Krishna, CEO and co-founder; Anand Prakash, co-founder; and Pulkit Jain, co-founder and head of product In recent years, a wave of tech startups including Byju's, which was valued at $8 billion in its most recent fund raise last week, have emerged to tackle these challenges as low-cost Android handsets flood the Indian market and mobile data prices become incredibly affordable.
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Among them are Audrey Gelman, founder of the women's co-working space The Wing; John Hope Bryant, founder of the nonprofit Operation Hope; Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of Microsoft; Steph Korey, co-founder of the travel start-up Away; Dov Seidman, founder of the advisory firm LRN; Steve Stoute, founder of the marketing agency Translation; Stephanie Cohen, chief strategy officer of Goldman Sachs; Edward Stack, C.E.O. of Dick's Sporting Goods, and many others.
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They include Audrey Gelman, founder of the women's co-working space The Wing; John Hope Bryant, founder of the nonprofit Operation Hope; Peggy Johnson, executive vice president of Microsoft; Steph Korey, co-founder of the travel start-up Away; Dov Seidman, founder of the advisory firm LRN; Steve Stoute, founder of the marketing agency Translation; Stephanie Cohen, chief strategy officer of Goldman Sachs; Edward Stack, C.E.O. of Dick's Sporting Goods, and many others.
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From left to right: Francesco Aronica (database expert), Salvatore Monello (algorithm expert), Francesco Giacalone (designer and developer), Antonio Rotolo (CEO and co-founder), Roberta Pellegrino (design manager and co-founder) and Federico Papa (legal expert and co-founder).
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Read more from Business Insider's Founder Frenemies special report:Benchmark was the poster boy for 'founder-friendly' VCs, but after WeWork and Uber its reputation is looking tarnishedSilicon Valley's founder-led startups have lost their shine with IPO investors.
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Its angel investors include Venk Krishnan and Subba Rao of NuVentures, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, Hemendra Kothari of DSP Blackrock, founder and chairman of Hexaware Atul Nishar, and ex-investment baker and Arpwood Capital founder Rajeev Gupta.
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For example: Did you know Michael Keaton recently played the founder of McDonald's in a movie conveniently called, yes, The Founder?
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Myst co-founder Thomas Yao introduced his co-founder and the company's chief scientist Xing Chenyue, a former scientist at Juul.
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This is a substantial jump from last year, when just 10% of startups counted women as their founder or co-founder.
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Starbucks Corp co-founder Howard Schultz and Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs each returned as CEOs when their companies faltered.
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Bustle has come a long way since founder Bryan Goldberg (a co-founder of Bleacher Report) announced its launch in 2013.
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In addition, Acko founder Varun Dua is a co-founder of Coverfox, an online insurance policy aggregator that also rivals PolicyBazaar.com.
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Paulo Gomes is the founder of Constelor Investment, an investment management firm, and a co-founder of New African Capital Partners.
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With co-founder Tony Nie stepping away earlier this year, Jia is now the only co-founder remaining at the company.
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Pebble founder Eric Micigovsky at TechCrunch Disrupt Pebble founder Eric Micigovsky at TechCrunch Disrupt Do this before you launch on Kickstarter.
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The round includes other investors like Cowboy Ventures and individuals like Parse co-founder Tikhon Bernstam and AngelList founder Naval Ravikant.
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Sometimes it's backing the founder to continue running the tables; sometimes it's backing a founder who's ready to make a transition.
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The team, composed of research scientists and serial entrepreneurs, also boasts Electronic Arts co-founder Jeff Burton as a co-founder.
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It will be led by Kavita Gupta, while ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin (also co-founder of Ethereum) also will be involved.
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The startup's other backers include Tekton Ventures, Techstars Ventures, Seedcamp, Nick Hungerford (founder of Nutmeg) and Ian Hogarth (founder of SongKick).
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Tencent co-founder Pony Ma is far more low-key than Alibaba's founder, although the company's messaging app WeChat dominates China.
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And many other tech titans, including the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen, have donated millions.
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He joins other Kentucky icons, including the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Harland Sanders, and Louisville's founder, George Rogers Clark.
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Plated co-founder and CEO Josh Hix left the company in January 2019; co-founder Nick Taranto left in October 2018.
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This is an opinion piece by Sebastian Buck, co-founder of enso , and Neill Duffy, CEO and founder of Purpose+Sport.
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The fortunate three are Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and financier and investor Warren Buffett.
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The firm's advisory board includes Heritage Foundation founder Edwin Feulner; Gerry Cassidy, founder of Cassidy & Associates; journalist Bill Press; and others.
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Her mother is a co-founder of Flywheel Sports, an indoor cycling business; she is also a co-founder of SoulCycle.
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Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, is pictured with his friend and colleague, Jeff Taylor, the founder of job website Monster.
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Shayne Oliver, the label's co-founder, was also a co-founder of instrumental New York club night GHE20GOTH1K back in 2009.
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Zipline itself is a private company, counting Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang among its top investors.
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People like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz are undergirding the Democratic Party with their largesse.
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They included InfoWars founder Alex Jones, right-wing activist Laura Loomer, conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.
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Paulo Gomes is the founder of Constelor Investment, an investment management firm, and a co-founder of New African Capital Partners.
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And many other tech titans, including the Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen, have donated millions.
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Williams founder and principal Frank Williams has a 52.25 percent stake in the team and co-founder Patrick Head nine percent.
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Founder culture — or more accurately, founder worship — emerged as bedrock faith in Silicon Valley from several strains of quasi-religious philosophy.
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Founder culture — or more accurately, founder worship — emerged as bedrock faith in Silicon Valley from several strains of quasi-religious philosophy.
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Rolf Schrömgens, the co-founder and CEO of Trivago, is a German internet entrepreneur, investor and founder of two global companies.
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Additional investors include VMware co-founder Diane Greene (who now runs Google's cloud), Intuit co-founder Scott Cook and Stanford University President John Hennessy as well Golden State Warriors part owner Dave Scially and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp.
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The startup's early investors already include Entrepreneur First, Moonfruit founder Wendy Tan White, Skype founder Niklas Zennström, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, and LocalGlobe, the seed VC firm founded by father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein, amongst others.
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Those include Augur co-founder Jeremy Gardner, EDM artist 3LAU, EA co-founder Bing Gordon and more it can't announce just yet.
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The company has previously landed financial support from Utah's tech unicorn CEOs Domo founder Josh James and Pluralsight co-founder Aaron Skonnard .
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Now the co-founder of Paypal, CEO of Tesla Motors, founder of SpaceX and OpenAI investor is worth $14.1b according to Forbes.
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Other big name investors include Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, and Jen Rubio, the co-founder of suitcase-maker Away.
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Other prominent angel investors in the team include Amr Awadallah, co-founder of Cloudera, and Jim Payne, founder and CEO of MoPub.
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Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Petersen Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Petersen Now the company has over 400 employees in seven offices.
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People like Anne Boden, the founder and CEO of Starling Bank and Ricky Knox, the CEO and co-founder of Tandem Bank.
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Till Faida, founder and CEO, Eyeo/AdBlock Plus Till Faida is co-founder and CEO of the Cologne-based company Eyeo GmbH.
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Sandeep Acharya, Octave founder and CEO Sandeep Acharya, Octave founder and CEO "We certainly don't want to disrupt existing relationships," Acharya said.
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In addition, a number of angels have backed the coffee startup, such as Songkick founder Ian Hogarth and TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus.
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Carolan, reluctant to be perceived as anything other than founder friendly, turned against the founder and advocated alongside Gurley for Kalanick's removal.
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The reshuffling comes exactly a year after co-founder Binny Bansal was appointed the CEO, taking over from co-founder Sachin Bansal.
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Co-founder Jesse Unruh previously worked in big business litigation, while co-founder Kyle Harris was a manufacturing design engineer at Apple.
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Other members of the Girls Who Code board of directors include Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark, Gilt Groupe Founder Alexis Maybank and others.
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Bryan Johnson is the founder and chief executive officer of the neuroprosthesis developer Kernel and the founder of OS Fund and Braintree.
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The Founder of ConsenSysand and co-founder of Ethereum shares his story and whether his company can become the Alphabet of blockchain.
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Red flag #2200: If your founder or co-founder has history with the law, you may want to consider working somewhere else.
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Boom's jets, which founder Scholl envisions in an all-business-class configuration, would be more economical than the Concorde, the founder expects.
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Meister is the founder of hedge fund Corvex Management and Mandelblatt is the founder of Soroban Capital Partners, both major Williams shareholders.
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Trump on Wednesday said that Obama is the founder of ISIS while also calling Clinton the "co-founder" of the terror group.
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Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder and a board member, wooed Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn founder and chairman, according to the LinkedIn filing.
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Bernie Marcus is a co-founder of The Home Depot and founder of the Job Creators Network, a nonprofit business advocacy organization.
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MR: That founder-investor alignment really matters, meaning fund size, follow-on strategy and just the chemistry match of founder and investor.
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Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk is also a co-founder and chairman of OpenAI, which was established in late 2015.
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Splice co-founder and CEO Steve Martocci Splice co-founder and CEO Steve Martocci It's an express lane down sonic rabbit hole.
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As a founder of Microsoft, Mr. Allen played the role of peacemaker — a contrast to his harder-charging co-founder, Bill Gates.
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Tim Busch is founder and CEO of the Pacific Hospitality Group, founder of the Napa Institute, and a supporter of Stand Together.
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Evan Spiegel, a chief executive and founder, and Bobby Murphy, another founder of Snap, also maintain control of the company's voting rights.
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO, drives a Honda Accord, while Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, prefers a Volkswagen Hatchback.
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That would be in keeping with the wisdom of founder of the nation, Thomas Paine, and founder of Social Security, Robert Ball.
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Join Hans Vestberg, Verizon Chairman and CEO, and Emmanuel Nyame, Co-founder of Social Good Ghana and Co-founder & CEO of Educom.
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Its co-founder Anton Bilton is also co-founder of Sabina Estates, one of the suspended Woodford fund's investments listed in Guernsey.
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"Something has really changed the last couple of years," says Ben Baldwin, founder of ScaleDriver, a Toronto management consultancy that advises executives on building innovation, and founder of the Founder City Project, a network of start-up and scale-up founders.
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Collaborative Fund has closed its fourth fund, this one a $100 million fund that includes LPs like Quora founder Adam D'Angelo, former Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson, Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow, former Sequoia partner Tom McMurray, and Indeed founder Rony Kahan.
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This season features investor and entrepreneur Reid Hoffman; Yancey Strickler, CEO and co-founder of Kickstarter; Gina Bianchini, CEO and founder of Mighty Networks; Scott Heiferman, CEO and founder of Meetup; and Jessie Woolley-Wilson, president and CEO of DreamBox Learning.
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This time, the company is raising $13.4 million (€12 million) from Idinvest, existing investor Alven Capital, as well as business angels, such as Sunrise co-founder Pierre Valade, Leetchi founder and CEO Céline Lazorthes, My Little Paris co-founder Céline Orjubin.
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Just some of the speakers you'll hear at the Q&A Sessions include Jamie Burke, CEO and founder, Outlier Ventures; Kaidi Ruusalepp, CEO and founder, Funderbeam; Ricky Knox, CEO and co-founder, Tandem and Niko Bonatsos, managing director, General Catalyst.
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In addition to Atomico, Farmdrop's other backers include Jon Reynolds, the CEO and co-founder of SwiftKey, Alex Chesterman, the founder of Zoopla, Nigel Wray, serial investor and chairman of Saracens Rugby club, and Quentin Griffiths, the co-founder of Asos.
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Read more from Business Insider's Founder Frenemies special report: Benchmark was the poster boy for 'founder-friendly' VCs, but after WeWork and Uber its reputation is looking tarnished Silicon Valley's founder-led startups have lost their shine with IPO investors.
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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has spent about a billion dollars in his quest to build and test manned rockets; his rivals are Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and SpaceX owner Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla.
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He is the founder of the Institute for Self Realization (Kyiv), author and founder of School Angels initiative, co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees of Chestnut Piano International Music Festival (Kyiv) and member of The Aspen Institute Kyiv.
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They need to do all the aspects of the job that the founder doesn't want to do, and then they also need to be able to gently manipulate the founder into doing the things that the founder doesn't want to do.
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FirstMark is led by Amish Jani (co-founder and managing director), Rick Heitzmann (co-founder and managing director), and Matt Turck (managing director).
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" Trump also called Obama "the founder of ISIS" for not leaving U.S. forces in Iraq and said that made Clinton "the co-founder.
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Malkia Cyril is founder and executive director of the Center for Media Justice (CMJ) and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network.
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Another Caavo founder, Blake Krikorian, was the co-founder of Sling Media, maker of the Sling Box; Krikorian passed away suddenly last year.
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Founder Ben Vigoda Founder Ben Vigoda The result for Gamalon is a system that promises developers a clearer view of how models work.
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The co-founder of Walt Disney Productions and the co-founder of Japan's famed Studio Ghibli are dramatically different as animators and storytellers.
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The event was moderated by Tom Silverman, the founder and chairman of Tommy Boy Records and the founder of the New Music Seminar.
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The company claims to have raised $18 million to date, with backers including Yahoo founder Jerry Yang and Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen.
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There are celebrity advisors with entrepreneurial endeavors of their own: Jessica Alba, founder of The Honest Company, Gwyneth Paltrow, founder of Goop, will.i.
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He was also the founding CTO of StubHub; founder and CTO of NineStar; and the founder, CTO and CEO of storage startup Versity.
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You'll meet Jean Guo and Binta Jammeh, co-founders of Konexio; Ruben Hallali, founder of HD Rain; and Olivier Jeannel, founder of RogerVoice.
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The company's founder, Ma Huateng, is China's third richest man, according to Forbes, just behind Jack Ma and Dalian Wanda founder Wang Jianlin.
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Tania Boler, co-founder of Chiaro Tania Boler, co-founder of Chiaro Tania Boler wants to change the relationship women have with technology.
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Repeat successful founder +$10-20M Founder built prior business to a reasonable revenue level and/or achieved a good outcome for investors. 2.
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A founder needs to be careful about what they offer to investors, Adam Struck, the founder and managing partner of Struck Capital, said.
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Patrisse Cullors is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter and founder of Yes on R, the mental health initiative in Los Angeles.
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Speaking at another campaign rally in Florida on Wednesday, Trump called President Obama the founder of ISIS and "crooked" Clinton the co-founder.
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It was also backed by angel investors such as Google Maps founder Lars Rasmussen, TransferWise cofounder Taavet Hinrikus, and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.
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This story begins with Copaken, a writer and producer, writing a profile on Hinge founder Justin McLeod, the founder of Hinge, for Cafe.com.
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Bernie Marcus is chairman of the Marcus Foundation, co-founder of Job Creators Network and the retired co-founder of The Home Depot.
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Blankfein appears in a Warren campaign ad alongside other billionaires such as TD Ameritrade Founder Joe Ricketts and PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel.
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Despite being rivals at various points in their careers, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates shared many commonalities.
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Milken helped provide funding to news-industry pioneers like Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, and Rupert Murdoch, the founder of News Corp.
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Last year, green carpet attendees included Marc Benioff, Kalanick, Tinder co-founder Sean Rad, Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel and angel investor Ron Conway.
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Backed by a clutch of seriously impressive names in the startup and tech community, entrepreneurs financed by F3's latest endeavor can count on a rolodex that includes Melinda Gates, the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Fooundation; Katrina Lake, the founder and CEO of StitchFix; Jenny Fleiss, the co-founder of Rent the Runway and Code 8; Hayley Barna, the co-founder of Birchbox and a partner at First Round Capital; Elizabeth Cutler, the co-founder of SoulCycle; Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code; and Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble .
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From left: David Lang (co-founder of OpenROV), Peter Rive (chairman of Sofar), and Tim Janssen (co-founder and CEO of Sofar) From left: David Lang (co-founder of OpenROV), Peter Rive (chairman of Sofar), and Tim Janssen (co-founder and CEO of Sofar) Spoondrift launched in 2016 and raised $350,000 to build affordable ocean sensors that can produce climate-tracking data.
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The company, which completed YC this summer, is today announcing a $1.1 million round with participation from Y Combinator, the accelerator's co-founder, CEO and president (Jessica Livingston, Michael Siebel and Geoff Ralston, respectively), as well as Maveron, Moxxie Ventures, JaneVC, Friale, Kabam co-founder and visiting YC partner Holly Liu, Block Party founder Tracy Chou and Breaker co-founder Leah Culver.
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Three founders of notable food startups joined us to share their insights on the state of the industry: Maple CEO co-founder and CEO Caleb Merkl, Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Nicolas Jammet, and Blue Apron co-founder and CTO Ilia Papas.
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HQ Trivia employees petitioned to remove co-founder Rus Yusupov from the CEO position HQ Trivia employees petitioned to remove co-founder Rus Yusupov from the CEO position Following the tragic death of co-founder and CEO Colin Kroll, Yusupov retook control.
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The idea is that Expa partners (Camp, AddThis founder Hooman Radfar, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, Metrolyrics founder Milun Tesovic, former Twitter designer Vitor Lourenço and former Google search lead Roberto Sanabria) team up with founders to explore those ideas and launch them.
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The latest round also boasts follow-on investment from Tim Cook and The Schmidt Family Foundation, as well as some new investors like Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, Starwood Hotels co-founder Barry Sternlicht, Fitbit co-founder James Park and Stanford StartX.
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The company also added three new directors: Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and of VC firm Founders Fund; Antonio Gracias, founder and managing partner of Valor Equity Partners; and Bill McGlashan, founder and managing partner at the private equity firm TPG Growth.
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These include Quora co-founder and chief executive officer Adam D'Angelo; Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg (who is also a co-founder of WordPress); Dropbox vice president of engineering Aditya Agarwal; and Ruchi Sanghvi, the former vice president of operations at Dropbox.
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Speakers include Michael Beirut, a partner at the design consulting firm Pentagram; Dan Simon, founder of Seven Stories Press; Sharon Helgason Gallagher, founder of Distributed Art Publishers; and Paula Cooper, owner of the Paula Cooper Gallery and a co-founder of 192 Books.
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The three angels include Fabian Heinrich, co-founder of Scoutbee (which recently announced a $60 million Series B), Christian Heinrich, founder and professor for digital transformation, and Moritz Zimmermann, co-founder of Hybris (which exited to SAP for $1.5 billion in 2013).
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Ted Turner is the founder and chairman of the Turner Foundation, chairman of Turner Enterprises, founder and chairman of the United Nations Foundation, co-founder and co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and the second-largest private landowner in the United States.
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The brokerage has raised $25.5 million in funding to date, from investors such as Best Buy founder Dick Schulze, Sun Microsystems co-founder and former CEO Scott McNealy, former McDonalds CEO Jack Greenberg and Crate and Barrel founder Gordon Segal, the company said.
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Our inaugural council of 20 includes Troy Carter, the legendary talent manager and founder of Atom Factory; Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code; Andy Rubin, the founder of Essential and creator of Android; and Megan Quinn, a partner at Spark Capital.
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Bill and Melinda Gates, along with billionaire pal Warren Buffet, launched the effort back in 2010 with Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar and noted tech venture capitalist John Doerr among the first to sign on.
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Liquid Death has attracted nearly $413 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
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Flywheel founder Ruth Zukerman, who was also a co-founder of SoulCycle, sent her team of instructors an email last week on the topic.
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That's what the Weinstein Company hopes to answer in its newest film "The Founder," staring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald's.
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Prototype Capital co-founder Rajat Bhageria Prototype Capital co-founder Rajat Bhageria "We at Prototype feel that the world is changing," Bhageria tells me.
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Members of the organization's board include Joseph Lubin, founder of ConsenSys and a co-founder of Ethereum, and Brian Behlendorf, executive director of Hyperledger .
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On Friday, September 7, All Raise will host Female Founder Office Hours at Disrupt with 18 or more All Raise VC and founder mentors.
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Tinder announced this morning that it's launching a campaign called #RepresentLove, in collaboration with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Emojination founder Jennifer 8.
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The move was linked to the relocation to Russia of a co-founder (not the founder, as we wrote) of the Yes California group.
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SOMA features a Wall Street Journal writer playing a venture capitalist, a venture capitalist playing a founder and a founder playing a construction worker.
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Thirty-five percent of this batch's companies are internationally based, 27 percent have a female founder, and 13 percent have an underrepresented minority founder.
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Other signatories include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mozilla Foundation executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, and Betaworks CEO John Borthwick.
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Co-Founder Greg Hazel was the Chief Architect at Bittorrent, while co-founder Straya Markovic was the lead engineer at mesh messaging platform Firechat.
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Each delegation startup receives three Founder passes if the pavilion contract is signed by August 30 — if not, they receive two Founder passes each.
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Founder Collective led the round, with participation from Freestyle Capital, ThirdKind, Bill Maris' new fund Section 32, 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki, and SV Angel.
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Jim Fruchterman — founder and CEO of Benetech As founder and CEO of Benetech, Fruchterman is focused on exporting tech innovation outside of Silicon Valley.
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"Is this supposed to be satire, too?" the Reddit co-founder, who married Williams in November 2017, asked the website's female founder, Elizabeth Broderick.
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The top two earners — James Simons, founder of Renaissance Technologies, and Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates — netted $1.6 billion and $1.4 billion, respectively.
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"There's always concerns around whether a founder-led brand loses some of its DNA when the founder leaves," said Peel Hunt analyst John Stevenson.
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The round also included Hong Kong-based Horizons Ventures and Nir Kalkstein, founder of high-speed trading firm Final and Medial EarlySign co-founder.
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Megan Smith, founder of Shift7; Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, founder and CEO of Boardlist; and Aileen Lee, managing partner of Cowboy Ventures have some ideas.
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Rho's lead seed investor is Inspired Capital, whose managing partner and founder Alexa von Tobel was also the founder and former CEO of LearnVest.
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The project was the work of Avegant co-founder Allen Evans, Pebble lead designer Steve Johns and the bygone smartwatch startup's founder, Eric Migicovsky.
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Seesaw founder Carl Sjogreen Seesaw founder Carl Sjogreen Carl Sjogreen started teaching coding at a summer camp while he was still in middle school.
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Garrett Camp, best known for being a co-founder of Uber and founder of the accelerator/venture fund Expa, is launching his own cryptocurrency.
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Nico Sell is the founder of Wickr Foundation, and co-founder and co-chairman at Wickr -- a self-destructing, secure, private, anonymous messaging service.
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Not surprisingly, Beepi's co-founder and president, Owen Savir, was the former founder and CTO of iContact, the largest education technology company in Israel.
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Lenore Anderson is the founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice, and founder and Executive Director of Californians for Safety and Justice.
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In the same way a founder can triangulate total addressable market or projected growth rate, I believe a founder can also triangulate customer need.
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David Petraeus, Matician co-founder and CEO Navneet Dalal, Quiet Capital managing partner Lee Linden and Robinhood co-founder Vladimir Tenev, among others. Helm.
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The purchase places Arnault just (billions) shy of the two wealthiest people in the world, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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And on Twitter, the official Google Stadia account replied to one Founder suggesting a delay wasn't necessarily unexpected: Hey Founder, thanks for your tweet.
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Just added to the lineup of speakers: Venmo COO Mike Vaughan, Reformation founder and CEO Yael Aflalo and Theory founder and president Andrew Rosen.
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TechCrunch is thrilled to announce that Rappi co-founder Sebastian Mejia, Enjoie founder Ana McLaren and Konfío founder and CEO David Arana will be joining us on stage at Startup Battlefield Latin America for a panel about new wave startups coming out of the region.
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Judy Liu, a co-founder of CuriosityChina, will become Farfetch's managing director for China; another co-founder, Alexis Bonhomme, is taking on the role of VP of commercial, China; and the third co-founder, Arthur Shui, will become head of technology for the Chinese operation.
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The investment was led by Connect Ventures (also in Citymapper, Typeform, and CharlieHR) and had follow-on investment from SpeedInvest and some of London's top angels – Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of Transferwise), Michael Pennington (co-founder of Gumtree), and Ian Hogarth (co-founder of Songkick).
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Noteworthy, they include Niklas Zennström, Skype co-founder and founding partner at Atomico, who doesn't always disclose his early investments, in addition to Ariel Lüdi, former CEO of hybris and founder at Hammer Teamm and Niklas Ostberg, co-founder and CEO of Delivery Hero.
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More than 2220,225 people attended here including business leaders like Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert and Spanx founder Sara Blakely.
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"So sad to hear about the passing of my friend and co-founder Colin Kroll," HQ Trivia co-founder and CCO Rus Yusupov tweeted Sunday.
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Drone security: Gilad Sahar (Co-founder and CEO of Convexum) and Yonatan Zur (Co-founder and CEO of Regulus) 7:25 PM — 7:35 PM
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By contrast, Pinterest co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann owns 11 percent of that company, and Evan Sharp, the other co-founder, controls 2.1 percent.
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Silicon Valley hedge fund founder Glen Kacher is bullish on Japan's SoftBank and it's in large part because of its founder and CEO, Masayoshi Son.
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Brian Hazzard, co-founder and CEO, says he had worked with his co-founder David Wolpoff when he was running a red team consulting firm.
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Ian Rountree, founder of Cantos Ventures Ian Rountree, founder of Cantos Ventures Yeah, ok, everyone uses Slack and decentralized sounds like orgastic crypto jargon. Valid.
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That's according to Gina Sanchez, founder and CEO of Chantico Global, and Bill Baruch, founder and president of Blue Line Capital and Blue Line Futures.
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They include Hossam Bahgat, founder of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), and Gamal Eid, founder of the Arab Network for Human Rights Information.
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The founder of Ethereum will chat with noted investor and AngelList CEO and founder about Ethereum's quest to balance decentralization and usability the right way.
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Jon was formerly a founder of Techstars London (formerly Springboard), Difference Engine, Ignite100 accelerator programs in the UK; and co-founder of Startup Wise Guys.
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Some of these include Chris Anderson, who runs the TED conference; Rob Reid, founder of the Rhapsody music service; and Cowboy Ventures's founder Aileen Lee.
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Genel co-founder Nathaniel Rothschild quit on Monday, joining co-founder Tony Hayward, and chief financial officer Ben Monaghan, who have announced plans to depart.
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The Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the Tesla founder Elon Musk taunt each other at 140 characters a message over whose rockets do cooler things.
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"This is about the future we all want for our children," said Mark Zuckerberg, Chan Zuckerburg Initiative co-founder and Facebook co-founder and CEO.
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HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll passed away in December HQ Trivia co-founder Colin Kroll passed away in December Then tragedy struck in December.
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SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are both attempting to develop reusable rockets in order to reduce the cost of space access.
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Chris Milk is the founder and CEO of the virtual reality technology company Vrse, and founder and creative director of virtual reality production company Vrse.works.
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President, CEO and founder of NBNL Medical Center The now defunct website for Love-Robinson's practice listed the teen as its president, CEO and founder.
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Investors in eFounders include Stupeflix CEO Nicolas Steegmann, Captain Train founder Jean-Daniel Guyot, Resto-in and Stuart founder Clément Benoit and dozens of others.
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In a statement from founder Robert L. Johnson, also the founder of Black Entertainment Television, he urged viewers to judge Saldana based on her talent.
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He met his co-founder and CTO Hemant Verma when they started working at Zenefits' founder Parker Conrad's new employee onboarding startup, Rippling, in 2017.
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The latter includes former Spotify CTO Andreas Ehn, Libratone founder Tommy Andersen, Songkick founder Ian Hogarth, and serial entrepreneur Hampus Jakobsson of TAT/BlackBerry fame.
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GOAT co-founder and CEO Eddy Lu will run the combined entity, while Flight Club founder Damany Weir will be the company's chief strategy officer.
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After Gates, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was the second richest person in America in 2017, followed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the fourth spot.
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The book's Amazon profile has reviews by business leaders including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
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" Schigel added that it&aposs not strictly about venture, "but as a founder and investor I prefer to spend more time hearing great founder stories.
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are among existing investors in Convoy, which made the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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Andrew Rosen, founder and president of Theory, and Yael Aflalo, founder and CEO of Reformation, talked with Recode's Jason Del Rey Thursday at Code Commerce.
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A composer, producer, and singer, Chrysler is the co-founder of the New York Theremin Society and founder of the first school for theremin, KidCoolThereminSchool.
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Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of 'Rift 2' headset This was a decision former-CEO and co-founder Brendan Iribe strongly repudiated.
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A CEO & founder in NYC Below, you'll find the rest of the founder reviews, the full interview and more details like pricing and fee structures.
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White, 35, is the founder of Bello Belts, a New York company that sells belts with interchangeable buckles, and was also a founder of TheFix.
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" —Torben Platzer, founder and CEO of personal branding agency TPA Media GmbH, founder of business education program SELFMADE and host of the German podcast "SELFMADE.
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SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son has publicly said trusting WeWork founder Adam Neumann with more than $10 billion in funding money was a mistake.
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Also participating in the Series A are existing investors Point Nine Capital, Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of TransferWise) and Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed).
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It was founded by Aimee Cho, a founder of the website The New Jock, and Alex Drexler, a founder of the fashion line Alex Mill.
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And I think it is important to have a good founder and entrepreneur but the great businesses continue to live on after the founder moves.
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For example, the late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, served as a mentor to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg during the early years of the company.
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Bernie Marcus is the chairman of the Marcus Foundation, the co-founder of Job Creators Network and the retired co-founder of The Home Depot.
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Chopra is the founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing and a pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation.
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He discussed how technology, social media, and social entrepreneurship can create positive change with: Ms. Jordan Hewson, Founder and CEO, Speakable Ms. Petra Nemcova, Founder and Vice Chair, All Hands and Hearts Ms. Carrie Rich, Founder and CEO, The Global Good Fund Ms. Janet Scardino, CEO, Comic Relief USA Mr. Henry Timms, Executive Director, 92nd Street Y, Founder, #GivingTuesday Thank you PepsiCo for sponsoring this event.
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Chase Martin, marketing and events manager; Emma Marty, operations and support coordinator; Rick Grinnell, founder and managing partner; Rudina Seseri, founder and managing partner; Sarah Fay, managing director; and Andre Rocha, investment associate Chase Martin, marketing and events manager; Emma Marty, operations and support coordinator; Rick Grinnell, founder and managing partner; Rudina Seseri, founder and managing partner; Sarah Fay, managing director; and Andre Rocha, investment associate
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These interviewees include: Justin Mateen, founder of Tinder; Andrew Chen, head of growth at Uber; Josh Elman, formerly in product at Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and partner at Greylock; Mike Jones, founder and CEO of Science and former CEO of MySpace; Cory Levy, co-founder and COO of After School; Hiten Shah, founder of KissMetrics; Kamo Astrayan, founder of Primer app consulting; Jonathan Abrams, founder of Friendster and Nuzzel; Brian Balfour, VP of Growth at HubSpot; Ryan Holiday, best-selling author of Growth Hacker Marketing, marketing consultant and former CMO of American Apparel; Lo Toney, partner at Google Ventures and Jesse Miller, director of product management at Shyp.
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The now six-month-old startup was dreamed up by K9 Ventures founder Manu Kumar, along with co-founder and Caltech and Columbia alum Hari Ravi.
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We see photos everywhere of Meg Gill, the co-founder and president of Golden Road Brewing; and Kim Jordan, co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Company.
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This high-profile corporate war may be partially fueled by a petty personal issue between Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and Google co-founder Larry Page.
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"[Lalamove CEO and founder] Shing is a role model for Hong Kong's new generation of innovative entrepreneurs," said Sequoia China founder and managing partner Neil Shen.
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Already, it has recruited at least half a dozen syndicate leads, including Saama Capital's Ash Lilani, FreeCharge founder Kunal Shah, and Citrus Pay founder Satyen Kothari.
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Farm founder: Employees responsible for abuse were fired Fair Oaks Farms founder Mike McCloskey said five employees were responsible for committing multiple instances of animal cruelty.
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Peanut's other co-founder (and parent), Greg Orlowski, is also familiar with the world of startups, having previously worked as Deliveroo co-founder and former CTO.
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Backers include GFC (the venture arm of Rocket Internet), Alex Chesterman (founder and CEO of Zoopla), and Simon Franks (co-founder of Lovefilm, acquired by Amazon).
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Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors, launched a Falcon Heavy rocket into space from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
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Leading the round is ADV, with participation from existing angel investors, including Simon Franks (co-founder of Lovefilm), Alex Chesterman (founder of Zoopla), and Peter Hinssen.
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Essential founder Andy Rubin, also the co-founder of Android, gave more insight into the ongoing process in an email to employees obtained by The Information.
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Larry Balma, founder, Tracker Trucks; co-founder, Transworld Skateboarding: In '82 skateboarding started getting some momentum again, and the youngest kids were your body of buyers.
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It's easy to dismiss this as founder-friendly at the expense of LPs, but I suspect Founder Collective's LPs don't see it that way at all.
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The round is being led by Playfair Capital, with participation from Amadeus Capital, Passion Capital, Errol Damelin (founder of Wonga) and Paul Foster (founder of Indeed.
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So, to be successful fundraising, "the founder must create a competitive process between VCs," according to Aaron Hirschhorn, the founder of DogVacay, in our latest interview.
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The gritty details: Zoom has a four-person board: CEO and co-founder Dave Sanders, the other co-founder Albert DiPiero and two representatives from Endeavour.
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Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens was previously a Palantir engineer and is a partner at Founders Fund, the investment firm of Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel.
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Speakers included Ritesh Agarwal, 25-year-old founder of Indian hotel chain OYO, and Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder of payment app Paytm parent One97 Communications.
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You'll hear from Holger Seim, founder and CEO of Blinkist; Karoli Hindriks, founder and CEO of Jobbatical; and Sophie Alcorn, founding partner of Alcorn Immigration Law.
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PULTE FOUNDER PITTED AGAINST THE BOARD | William J. Pulte, the founder and largest shareholder of the Pulte Group, is locked in a battle with the management.
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The billionaire investor, who is currently worth $83 billion according to Forbes, is the co-founder of The Giving Pledge with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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That was the view of a panel on Thursday which included Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and Paul Hilder, the co-founder of political crowdfunding site Crowdpac.
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The lunch is with Salvatore Ferragamo, the grandson and namesake of the founder of the Ferragamo shoe company, not the founder himself, who died in 1960.
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SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, now the world's richest person, all tied for 10th place.
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Davis was shortlisted by The Atlantic, along with SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, as someone tomorrow's historians will consider today's greatest inventors.
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Numen Capital's move to hire Sallusti follows a management reshuffle in which co-founder Kushal Kumar handed over his investment duties to fellow founder Filipo Lanza.
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" Bold founder David Byttow Bold founder David Byttow Byttow writes, "The Hemingway assistant makes your sentences more concise and active by suggesting changes as you type.
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He was living in New York and working on projects with Fabrice Grinda — the co-founder of classified juggernaut OLX and the founder of FJ Labs.
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" The founder: "Former employees say often the only way they knew co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel was at work was by seeing his chauffeured SUV.
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In addition to Emanuel's Endeavor, investors include Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, Aspect Ventures, former Yelp SVP Michael Stoppelman and Infinite Computer Solutions founder Sanjay Govil.
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Riot's founder Benjamin Netter was previously the co-founder and CTO of October (formerly known as Lendix), one of the leading crowd-lending platforms in Europe.
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Arweave founder Sam Williams Arweave founder Sam Williams But what's especially interesting is how Arweave is employing these token economics to build out its developer ecosystem.
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Before 2006 20 percent of such companies had at least one immigrant founder, and before 1980 only 7 percent of such companies had one immigrant founder.
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Back in 2007, when Xprize founder Dr. Peter Diamandis was looking for other backers, he overheard a conversation by Google co-founder Sergey Brin about space.
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In a surprise announcement in December 2019, Alphabet founder Larry Page announced plans to step down as CEO, along with co-founder and president Sergey Brin.
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According to venture firm First Round Capital, its investments in companies with at least one female founder performed 63% better than the all-male founder teams.
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Melissa Silverstein is the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood and the artistic director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College.
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Dalio previously shared two other "role models" he admires: fellow billionaire, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff, and Thrive Global and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington.
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There's also a focus on diversity in Canadian tech: 54 percent of MaRS startups have a non-Canadian founder, and 30 percent have a female founder.
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She is a founder of the Chicano/Mexicano Education Coalition, the Denver Youth Employment and Education Task Force, and co-founder of the Colorado Latino Forum.
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Jeremy Johnson, the co-founder and CEO of Andela, said that his co-founder Christina Sass was the one to receive the call to defend Omin.
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The Challenge has support from industry movers and shakers including Susan Lyne of AOL's BBG Ventures; Joanne Wilson, angel investor; Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital; Lisa Stone, entrepreneur and co-founder of BlogHer; Kathryn Finney, founder of DigitalUndivided and Karan Mehandru, general partner at Trinity Ventures.
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Robbins' advice has been gleaned from his interviews and work with some of the greatest financial minds of our generation — from Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, and Ray Dalio, founder and co-CIO of Bridgewater Associates, to Warren Buffett, founder, CEO and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
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"When we show our secret plasma reactor and the diamond gems at the end of our production line, people are just stunned," said Roscheisen, whose circle of heavyweight backers also includes Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum.
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Meanwhile, alongside TriplePoint, Cleo is backed by some of the biggest VC names in the London tech scene — including Balderton Capital, Entrepreneur First, Moonfruit co-founders Wendy Tan White and Joe White, Skype founder Niklas Zennström, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus and LocalGlobe.
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Amazon launched re:MARS in 2019 and last year featured founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Landing AI founder and CEO Andrew Ng, actor and producer Robert Downey, Jr., MIT Media Lab researcher Dr. Kate Darling and Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, and Zoox CEO Aicha Evans, among others.
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I do think that founder-led companies are their own category, and there's more similarity with a company like Capital One, with Rich Fairbank is still the founder, and a company that has the tech founder still in place, more similarities there than just in the industry.
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The investors in the latest funding round are Tencent, Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström's Atomico, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures, and private banking group LGT.
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Accion Systems founder and CEO will be joined by the founder and managing partner of Shasta Ventures to hear what it takes to build a space startup.
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Fourpost's investors include Warby Parker co-founder Dave Gilboa and Parachute founder Ariel Kaye, putting the concept in good hands with already well-established e-commerce brands.
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"He's larger than life and he always has been," said Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, founder of fintech start-up Affirm and a friend of Benioff's.
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Chopra is the author ofThe Healing Self with Rudolph E. Tanzi, the founder of The Chopra Foundation, co-founder of Jiyo and The Chopra Center for Wellbeing.
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Among its backers is Resolute Ventures; Precursor Ventures; Product Hunt co-founder Ryan Hoover; Girlboss founder Sophia Amoruso; and April Underwood, the chief product officer of Slack.
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Crowley, the Foursquare founder, and Nat Turner, co-founder and CEO of Flatiron Health, both joined Google by way of acquisition before leaving to start new ventures.
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Facebook's Emeka Afigbo (Head of Middle East and Africa, Platform Partnerships) in conversation with Chijioke Dozie (Co-founder and CEO, OneFi), Mark Essien (Founder and CEO, Hotels.
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A co-founder of the pioneering app-based dating site Tinder, Herd sued the company in 2014, alleging that her co-founder, Justin Mateen, sexually harrassed her.
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Buffy Li, co-founder Buffy Li, co-founder Li created TagDat with co-founders Wilson Li (no relation), 21, and University of California student Zheng Cai, 31.
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Past speakers include the likes of Mark Cuban, Houzz CEO and co-founder Adi Tatarko and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to name just a few.
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A number of individuals also invested personally, including Niklas Östberg (founder and CEO of Delivery Hero), and Hakan Koç (co-founder and co-CEO of Auto1 Group).
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Across all funding stages in 2016, $10 billion went to companies with at least one female founder contrasted with $94 billion invested in male-only founder teams.
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MySQL founder Michael "Monty" Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came up with a different model a few years ago: the Business Source License (BSL).
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It's a list that includes Aurora co-founder Chris Urmson, Argo AI co-founder Bryan Salesky and Anthony Levandowski, who helped launch Otto and more recently Pronto.ai.
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and Arrington XRP Capital founder (and TechCrunch founder) Michael Arrington will be joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in September to talk money.
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The Special Breakthrough Prize was created by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner along with several technology pioneers, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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Although it is bankrolled to a large extent by its founder, Paul Allen, who was also a founder of Microsoft, other sources of dollars are always welcome.
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Past speakers have included people such as Whitney Wolfe-Herd, founder of Bumble, Tristan Walker, CEO of Walker & Company Brands and Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures.
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Today, we're delighted to announce that Uri Levine, co-founder of Waze, and Ben Volkow, CEO and co-founder of Otonomo will be speaking on our stage.
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The latter includes Matt Robinson, co-founder of GoCardless and Nested (which I'm told are both early customers of Personably), and Caroline Sage, founder at Kea Consultants.
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Once upon a time, the transition from PayPal co-founder to carmaker could have been questionable for Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, notes Porter.
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One of those people is Dag Kittlaus, co-founder and CEO of Siri and now co-founder and CEO of Viv, a new platform-based AI product.
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Cat Berman, co-founder of CNote Cat Berman, co-founder of CNote Community development financial institutions are an integral part of economic development in the United States.
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Chopra, founder of The Chopra Foundation and co-founder of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, is well-known for his work in integrative medicine and personal transformation.
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TXV co-founder and general partner Marcus Stroud TXV co-founder and general partner Marcus Stroud Stroud and Allen plan to spend the $2137 million on millennials.
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Bling Capital founder Ben Ling Bling Capital founder Ben Ling Ling joined Khosla in 2013 to invest in consumer technology, internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health.
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During his life, the iconic Apple co-founder had an intense relationship with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, as the pair each fought to revolutionize personal computing.
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By our estimation, a 50-year-old founder is 1.8 times more likely than a 30-year-old founder to create one of the highest growth firms.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin: Russia The co-founder of Google, the most visited website in the world, was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia.
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Its rivals are Blue Origin, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon ; and SpaceX, which is owned by Elon Musk , the founder of Tesla.
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In technology, that trend has joined with the so-called cult of the founder, a phrase used recently regarding Adam Neumann, the ousted co-founder of WeWork.
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Chopra is the author of The Healing Self with Rudolph E. Tanzi, the founder of The Chopra Foundation, co-founder of Jiyo and The Chopra Center for Wellbeing.
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Founder and CTO of Natural Cycles, Elina Berglund Founder and CTO of Natural Cycles, Elina Berglund Dr. Elina Berglund will be chatting about her company Natural Cycles .
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The average turned out to be "noisy," and the reason was the split between founder-led companies and those that had a non-founder at the helm.
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Juul co-founder James Monsees Juul co-founder James Monsees If Juul actually cared about fighting addiction, it'd offer a regimen for weaning yourself off of nicotine.
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"As surgical trainees ourselves, my co-founder Jean Nehme and I experienced many of the problems affecting surgery today," says Andre Chow, co-founder of Touch Surgery .
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Founded in 2011, JUST was a VC darling, raising capital from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff and Khosla Ventures, among others.
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Its highest-profile commitments are from people like Miguel McKelvey, a cofounder of WeWork; Niklas Adalberth, the founder of Klarna; and Jose Neves, the founder of Farfetch.
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RoseBYANDER Led by: Alexis Ander Kashar, founder and CEO Founder Alexis Ander Kashar creates beautiful 2200k-gold jewelry that depicts "I love you" in American Sign Language.
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Mr. Katzenberg and a co-founder of WndrCo, Ann Daly, ran DreamWorks Animation, while the other co-founder, Sujay Jaswa, was a chief financial officer of Dropbox.
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In addition, Topeka is the founder of Ladies of Hope Ministries, host of "Last Mile, Second Chances" on Sirius XM, and co-founder of Hope House NYC.
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Panelists included Astranis CEO and co-founder John Gedmark; Capella Space CEO and founder Payam Banazadeh and Rocket Lab VP of Global Commercial Launch Services Shane Fleming.
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In 2016, Arianna Huffington, the founder of Thrive Global and co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Huffington Post, put out her book, The Sleep Revolution.
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The success of e-commerce juggernaut Amazon pushed founder and CEO Jeff Bezos to become the world's richest person on Thursday, dethroning Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
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Siggi Hilmarsson, founder of Siggi's, and Koel Thomae, co-founder of Noosa, both say Greek yogurt made shoppers more open minded and willing to try new products.
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If one of them dies or becomes incapacitated, Lyft's so-called sunset clause enables the remaining co-founder to control the votes of the deceased co-founder.
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There are various stories about the beginnings of the company, most involving a dispute between founder Ferruccio Lamborghini and a haughty Enzo Ferrari, the founder of Ferrari.
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Billionaires like WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey and AOL co-founder Steve Case explain where the ideas for their companies came from and how they got started.
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"We kind of classify this as a moon shot," said Norbert Beaujot, founder and CEO of SeedMaster and inventor and founder of its sister company, Dot Technology.
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In official documents, Starbucks says this is a "pivotal year," one in which it is making the transition from a "founder-led" to a "founder-inspired" company.
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Terrible for the company, terrible for the ecosystem, where they would basically give all the voting power to the kid founder, and I do mean kid founder.
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" — Aimee Allison, founder of She the People ".
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Left to right: FMO senior investment officer Arno de Vette, Validus co-founder and executive chairman Vikas Nahata, Validus co-founder and CEO Ajit Raikar and Liu Genping, partner at Vertex Ventures Left to right: FMO senior investment officer Arno de Vette, Validus co-founder and executive chairman Vikas Nahata, Validus co-founder and CEO Ajit Raikar and Liu Genping, partner at Vertex Ventures Nahata, who operates the business alongside fellow co-founder and CEO Ajit Raikar, said the goal is to expand to Indonesia by Q2 and Vietnam later this year.
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Y Combinator founder Paul Graham (second left) with CareerTu founder Ruiwan Xu (second right) and her team members / Photo: CareerTu Y Combinator founder Paul Graham (second left) with CareerTu founder Ruiwan Xu (second right) and her team members / Photo: CareerTu Securing a job in the U.S. could be a daunting task for international students, who must convince employers to invest the time and money in getting them a work visa.
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The company is announcing today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to date from numerous big names in payments and beyond, including Square and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square exec Jacqueline Reses, serial-founder-turned investor David Sacks, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee, Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz, BitGo CTO Ben Davenport and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev, along with The Hive, Digital Currency Group and others.
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Founder Henri Asseily himself is the founder of Shopzilla / Bizrate, exited for $569 million, along with Hala Fadel who is the chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum for the Pan Arab Region, as well as being a telecoms business entrepreneurs and the founder of Beirut's space Coworking+24.
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Tally, which launched a beta version in November before expanding in January, has raised $9 million in funding from investors who include Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Alibaba co-founder Joe Tsai, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley and Kenny Dichter, the CEO of private aviation startup WheelsUp.
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Already backed by some of the biggest VC names in the London tech scene — including Entrepreneur First, Moonfruit co-founders Wendy Tan White and Joe White, Skype founder Niklas Zennström, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus and LocalGlobe — Cleo is adding Balderton Capital to the list.
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Investors share his optimism and those who took part in this round include Boost VC founder Adam Draper — son of outspoken pro-Bitcoin VC Tim Draper — Graham Tuckwell, founder of ETFS Capital who built ETF products for gold, and Greg Kidd, co-founder of investment firm Hard Yaka.
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Here are just a few speakers you'll engage with during Disrupt Berlin: Jamie Burke, CEO & founder, Outlier Ventures Kaidi Ruusalepp, CEO & founder, Funderbeam Ricky Knox, CEO & co-founder, Tandem Niko Bonatsos, Managing Director, General Catalyst The only way to get involved is to snag a pass to Disrupt Berlin.
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The company today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by SGVC, with participation from Trilogy Equity Partners and a number of angel investors, including Heroku founder and CEO James Lindenbaum, Lookout founder and CTO Kevin Mahaffey and Parse founder and CEO Ilya Sukhar.
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Dr. John Cumbers, founder of SynBioBeta Dr. John Cumbers, founder of SynBioBeta Data Collective (DCVC) is bringing Dr. John Cumbers, the founder of synthetic biology platform SynBioBeta and setting him up with his own biotech fund for pre-seed and seed stage startups, aptly called the DCVC SynBioBeta Fund.
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For Michael Granoff, the founder of Maniv Mobility, Chemi Peres, the co-founder of Pitango and Yahal Zilka, the co-founder of Magma Venture Partners, there are at least four areas of opportunity for startups (especially startups hailing from Israel's innovation nation) to penetrate the trillion-dollar mobility market.
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Branson is far from the only before becoming a major success, with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs among those who never obtained a college degree but went on to change the world and make billions of dollars.
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The company was born as the result of series of conversations involving Oracle founder Larry Ellison, NetSuite's founder and now-CTO Evan Goldberg and Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff, concerning how a new generation of enterprise software applications would run in what we now call the cloud.
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Mr. Musk, the founder of SpaceX and the co-founder of Tesla Motors, was born in South Africa and came to the United States as a college student.
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The group also included Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, Paul Sciarra, the co-founder of Pinterest and Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange.
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Other investors in the round include Flybridge Capital Partners (where the deal was led by WeWork Labs co-founder Jesse Middleton) and Airbnb co-founder/CTO Nate Blecharczyk.
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August has confirmed to us that co-founder Jason Johnson will remain CEO of August Home, and Yves Behar will continue in his co-founder role as well.
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SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son is a close friend of Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Bloomberg was the first to report the plan for a Hong Kong listing.
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WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum quit his job at Facebook in the spring, not long after fellow WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton told the world to delete Facebook.
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Open source do-gooders like the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and the founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, also expressed their opposition to the proposal.
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Investors include Airtree Ventures (the largest VC fund in Australia, where Snappr was founded), Lars Rasmussen, co-founder of Google Maps and Justin Waldron, co-founder of Zynga.
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The first thing to understand about media-sharing app Rapchat is that co-founder Seth Miller is not a rapper and his other co-founder, Pat Gibson, is.
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SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son is a close friend of Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Bloomberg was the first to report the plan for a Hong Kong listing.
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Nimb has as a team of five: Leo Bereschansky (founder and CEO), Nick Marshansky (founder and CMO), Alex Medvedev (CTO), Kathy Romanovskaya (communications director) and Davor Tomic (sales).
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SparkLabs Taipei's advisory board includes YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Kabam co-founder Kevin Chou and Charles and Kai Huang, the founders of Guitar Hero's first publisher RedOctane.
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He has also been the founder or co-founder of five high-tech firms and is the current owner of the 14th-century Langley Castle Hotel in England.
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Magnus Grimeland, Antler's founder and CEO, believes that if new businesses are led by a passionate founder with the right skillset, the chances of success would be higher.
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Oculus co-founder Luckey says, 'It wasn't my choice to leave' Facebook Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey revealed yesterday that he was fired, though he didn't say why.
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What sparked the faceoff was Trump's latest blast accusing Obama of being the "founder" of ISIS and Hillary Clinton its "co-founder" -- both clearly inaccurate when taken literally.
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Co-founder and CEO Dylan Field explains that when he and co-founder Evan Wallace started the company, in 2012, IBM employed one designer for every 72 engineers.
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Rubin, for his part, is a co-founder of Android, as well as the founder of Essential, a smartphone company that, though highly valued, has had less success.
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Yoshiko Shinohara, the founder of Temp Holdings, who became Japan's first self-made billionaire last year, reappears this year, as does Lens Technology founder and CEO Zhou Qunfei.
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AMERICAN APPAREL FOUNDER LOSES BID TO RETURN | Dov Charney, the ousted founder of American Apparel, lost an 11th-hour bid to return to the troubled retailer on Monday,
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Affirm, the alternative lending site started by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, has raised a $100M Series D led by fellow PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
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Zipline has raised $19 million in venture capital from investors including Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, and Subtraction Capital.
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The current example of the presidential candidate at his Trumpiest is the argument that President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the "founder" and "co-founder" of ISIS.
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Co-founder and CEO David Rogier told TechCrunch this morning that he hopes to bring Elon Musk, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and J.K. Rowling on board one day.
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Polly Rodriguez, co-founder and CEO, and Sarah Jayne Kinney, co-founder and CCO of Unbound, respond to fellow sex tech company Dame Products' lawsuit against the MTA.
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday I'm in San Francisco, trying to meet the next great founder, trying to help a founder that I've already backed, helping people in the community.
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But here's the latest: Binary co-founder Justin Caldbeck has sued his former co-founder Jonathan Teo, alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and more.
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Its backers include Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Slack founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield, investor Vinod Khosla and a bunch of other mostly medium-level Silicon Valley executives.
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Russian-based Miroslava Duma (founder of the digital company Buro 24/7) and Jezy Lin (founder of Taiwan-based Passhion) have been hitting every major show (front row.
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Kamcord co-founder Kevin Wang will be focused on the passenger pickup aspect of Lyft's product, while co-founder Aditya Rathnam will be working on driver side products.
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Both the Microsoft founder and Virgin Group founder backed a start-up that grows meat in a lab and hopes to reduce the environmental impact of raising livestock.
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Cadillac's founder, Henry Leland, named the company after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the founder of the settlement that would become the city of Detroit, according to Cadillac.
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Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, famously posited that good artists copy and great artists steal, so why not apply this to your founder fashion sense?
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To date, the startup has raised $41 million from investors, including Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and Subtraction Capital.
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David Lancashire, founder of Saito, and Sarah Zhang, founder of Points, discussed blockchain's vulnerabilities and long-term security issues during a panel on TechCrunch Shenzhen's blockchain side stage.
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Both Sabrina Tan, founder of Skin Inc, and Kat Burki, founder of her own eponymous line, have found acne to be quite prevalent in the 30-plus set.
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Below are the top pieces of advice from Charles Hudson, founder and managing partner of Precursor Ventures, Redpoint Ventures general partner Annie Kadavy, and DocSend founder Russ Heddleston.
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Tempo co-founder, CEO, and CPO Moawia Eldeeb Tempo co-founder, CEO, and CPO Moawia Eldeeb Eldeeb's family immigrated to the US from Egypt when he was nine.
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Its top funders have included Bernard Marcus, a co-founder of the Home Depot; Sheldon G. Adelson, the casino billionaire; and Leonard Abramson, the founder of U.S. Healthcare.
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He is founder and president of Not For Sale, a nonprofit that combats human trafficking, and founder and managing director of Just Business, a social-impact investment firm.
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MasterClass co-founder's new educational startup Outlier raises $11.7M Founder and CEO Aaron Rasmussen previously helped to popularize online learning as co-founder and creative director at MasterClass.
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The e-commerce founder is now worth more than Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates ever was, in absolute terms, but Gates has donated billions through his charitable foundation.
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He was the son of Peter Morton, the Hard Rock Cafe chain co-founder, and grandson of Arnie Morton, co-founder of Morton's The Steakhouse, according to KTLA.
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Some of the gaming industry's biggest pioneers, including Riot Games co-founder Marc Merrill and Blizzard Entertainment co-founder Mike Morhaime, were also part of the funding round.
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The round also included hedge fund founder Alec Litowitz's private capital group Reimagined Ventures as well as Topgolf Media president and World Golf Tour game founder YuChiang Cheng.
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Chopra is the author of The Healing Self with Rudolph E. Tanzi, the founder of The Chopra Foundation, co-founder of Jiyo and The Chopra Center for Wellbeing.
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Customers: well known customers include Jager McConnell (CEO of Crunchbase), Dharmesh Shah (CTO of HubSpot), Des Traynor (Co-founder of Intercom), and Marc Andreessen (Founder of Andreessen Horowitz).
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Patrisse Cullors is the founder of Dignity and Power Now, which advocates on behalf of incarcerated people and their families, and is co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
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First, how do you feel about that inability of boards to actually do anything when these companies have way too much founder control or have complete founder control?
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The network includes names such as Laurence Bret-Stern (former CRO at Pipedrive); Tracy Doree (founder at Kindred Capital); Dhiraj Mukherjee (co-founder, Shazam); Alicia Navarro (president, former CEO and founder at Skimlinks); and Rabin Yaghoubi (former CCO at Babylon Health, director of Strategic Partnerships for Google EMEA, Doubleclick); among others.
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Oculus founder and Trump meme connoisseur Palmer Luckey has left Facebook Oculus founder and Trump meme connoisseur Palmer Luckey has left Facebook Palmer Luckey — the 24-year-old, meme-loving, liberal-hating founder of Oculus VR — has officially left Facebook, which acquired his startup for more than $2 billion in 2014.
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"You routinely see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau show up in the same room where all the founders show up," said Ben Baldwin, founder of ScaleDriver, a Toronto management consultancy that advises executives on building innovation, and founder of The Founder City Project, a network of start-up and scale-up founders.
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As with Teach for All, Wigdortz, who is the CEO, has a co-founder for his latest effort: Edd Read (CTO), who previously had been a founder of Graze, the healthy snack company that sold to Unilever last year, is Tiney's other founder, which makes JamJar's investment an interesting one.
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Other prominent speakers taking part include Xiangdong Zhang, co-founder and CEO of red-hot smart bike startup 700Bike, and Joe Xia, co-founder and CTO of bike-sharing startup Mobike, as well as Colin Angle, co-founder of iRobot, and the CEO of Microsoft Accelerator Greater China, Bin Luo.
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These speakers are a veritable who's who of the tech industry — folks like RRE Ventures Co-Founder & Managing Partner Stuart Ellman, Luma CEO and Founder Paul Judge, former NSA Director Keith Alexander, international chess champion Garry Kasparov and WeWork Co-Founder and CEO Adam Neumann, to name just a few.
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Today, organizers announced that at the 18th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, three men would be given the event's top honors: Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail will receive the Ambassador Award; Double Fine founder Tim Schafer gets the Lifetime Achievement Award; and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell will receive the Pioneer Award.
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PEOPLE has the exclusive first look at the series, which features Randi Zuckerberg (CEO of Zuckerberg Media), Ido Leffler (co-founder and CEO of school supply company Yoobi), Sarah Prevette (Founder & CEO of Future Design School) and Lauren Maillian (Founder and CEO of strategic marketing and advisory company LMB group).
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They include Cristina Stenbeck (Kinnevik), Justin Mateen (co-founder of Tinder), Keith Richman (board member, Grubhub), Jeff Wilke (Amazon), Sujay Jaswa (founder of WndrCo), Sujay Tyle (CEO Frontier Car Group), Diego Piacentini (Former Head of International Business, Amazon) Christian Leone (founder of Luxor Capital) and Spencer Rascoff (ex-CEO of Zillow).
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Ryan discussed the essentials for success — community, entrepreneurship, and government — with three female powerhouses: Donna Harris, Co-Founder, 1776Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder and Head of Operations, KabbagePenny Pritzker, Founder and Chairman, PSP Capital Partners and Pritzker Realty Group, 38th Secretary of Commerce Thank you S&P Global for sponsoring this event.
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We checked in with Eleanor Langston, former beauty editor turned founder of Paintbox, which is known for its modern gel designs that change seasonally; Nadine Abramcyk, co-founder of non-toxic haven Tenoverten; and Jin Soon Choi, founder of Jin Soon, the ultimate go-to for deeply indulgent manis and pedis.
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The same is true of former refugees like Google (GOOG) co-founder Sergey Brin, Intel (INTC, Tech30) co-founder Andy Grove, or WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum -- some of the world's most innovative and successful businesses simply wouldn't exist if they had been turned away in their time of need.
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The firm has $15 million committed from investors, including Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock; Ron Conway, the founder of SV Angel and an early backer of Google, Facebook and Twitter; Chris Sacca, an early investor in Uber; and Elizabeth Cutler, the founder of SoulCycle.
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Insider spoke to three interior designers about what Target items they&aposd put on their wish lists for 2019: Maggie Griffin, founder and principal designer of Maggie Griffin Design; Windy O&aposConnor, founder of Windy O&aposConnor Art & Home; and Abbe Fenimore, founder and principal designer of Studio Ten 25.
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Asana co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz Asana co-founder and CEO Dustin Moskovitz "Our role is to help leaders understand where their attention can be most useful and what to be focused on," Dustin Moskovitz, pictured, the co-founder and CEO of Asana, said to me in an interview recently.
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One big factor is a rise in female entrepreneurship role models across Europe, according to Ms. Hession, citing Ireland's Dr. Sarah Bourke (co-founder of the space technology company Skytek) and Anne Heraty (founder of the international recruitment company Cpl Resources); Britain's Sara Murray (founder of the insurance comparison website Confused.
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Additional investors include: Marc Merrill, the co-founder of Riot Games; Mike and Amy Morhaime, the co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment and its former head of global esports; Kevin Lin, the co-founder of Twitch; and aXiomatic Gaming, an esports investment group with stakes in Epic Games, Team Liquid and Niantic.
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Speakers will include Layla Amjadi, Product Manager, Instagram Shopping, Michelle Cordeiro Grant, Founder & CEO, LIVELY, Jack Forestell, Chief Product Officer, Visa; Arpan Podduturi, Director of Product, Shopify; Geoff Ramsey, Co-Founder and Chief Evangelist, eMarketer; Anushka Salinas, Chief Operating Officer, Rent the Runway; and Maggie Winter, Co-Founder and CEO, AYR.
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Our Sunday show will feature interviews with some of the biggest names in tech today, including: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer; Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi; Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel; Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek; and Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky.
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It's a list that includes Aurora co-founder Chris Urmson, Argo AI co-founder Bryan Salesky as well as Anthony Levandowski, who helped launch Otto and more recently Pronto.ai.
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Chopra is the author of The Healing Self with Rudolph E. Tanzi, the founder of The Chopra Foundation, and co-founder of Jiyo and The Chopra Center for Wellbeing.
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Buffett is worth $210 billion, according to Forbes, making him the third richest person alive (behind Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his friend and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates).
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Gates is pals with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison while Buffett is friends with Charlie Munger, VP of Berkshire Hathaway, and Mark Cuban.
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The main space was only half full when Luminary founder Cate Luzio took the stage with Ellevest founder Sallie Krawcheck for the second-to-last panel of the day.
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Zipline has received more than $18million in investments from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, SV Angel, Subtraction Capital, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Stanford University.
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It also includes venture capitalists LocalGlobe, Oxford Capital Partners, Talis Capital, Samos Ventures, as well as angel investors Guy Hands, Ed Wray (co-founder, Betfair), Rohan Blacker (founder, sofa.
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A number of existing investors also participated, such as Andreas Kemi, an early investor in LogMeIn and co-founder of Scala Business Solutions, and Márton Anka, founder of LogMeIn.
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Blaine Lifton- founder and CEO at Hyperbolous Blaine Lifton is a founder and CEO of Hyperbolous (formerly Free Enterprise), a strategic advertising and marketing agency based in New York.
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Our original report continues below Isaac Tay, another co-founder, left the company last year while the last remaining co-founder is Jonathan Low, who leads Honestbee's engineering team.
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The documents redact the name of the co-founder, but the work history they describe matches that of Otto co-founder Lior Ron, including his expertise in mapping technology.
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The board, including co-founder and head of product Lamine Cheloufi, and activist investor Ehssan Dariani, teamed up to fire other co-founder and head of business Garry Krugljakow.
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In addition, eRepublik Labs founder and CEO Alexis Bonte, and Rdio founder Carter Adamson, were both XiRs but have since chosen to stay on at Atomico as Venture Partners.
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It has already secured investments from the likes of Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, founder of Jaiku (which was acquired by Groupon) Jyri Engestrom and Lifeline Ventures among others.
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Sweetgreen co-CEO and co-founder Jonathan Neman and Glossier founder and CEO Emily Weiss talked with Recode's Dan Frommer and Racked's Cheryl Wischhover at Code Commerce on Thursday.
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Its earliest backers include Qualcomm Ventures, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, WebEx founder Subrah Iyar and former Cisco SVP Dan Scheinman, who has been an active angel investor for years.
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Oriente was started in 2017 by Geoff Prentice, a Skype co-founder and ex-Chief Strategy Officer, Hubert Tai, a founder of Ping An's Lufax and Chinese unicorn dangdang.
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I spoke with CEO/co-founder Riki Kitagawa and co-founder Ryo Yamada; they claim their device can recover 95-98 percent of the water used in the shower.
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Satoshi, the founder of Bitcoin, remains obscured from the public eye, while Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, still owns a lot of ether and stays active on social media.
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About a year ago, Erika Szychowski, the founder of a protein snack company called Good Zebra, had a startling realization about what it means to be a female founder.
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While a lot of these people — like Yammer founder David Sacks and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman — were there for the early stages, fewer people get credit for starting PayPal.
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The backstory of Wali Fard, the Moorish Science Ashram Founder, for example, was a mix of Wilson's own biography and that of Nation of Islam founder Wallace D. Fard.
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France's Minister of State for Digital Affairs Axelle Lemaire is going to join me with Netatmo founder and CEO Fred Potter, and Devialet co-founder and CEO Quentin Sannié.
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Among those publicly amenable to higher rates: Pimco co-founder Bill Gross, Mark Cuban and Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, who Forbes estimates has a net worth of $3.7 billion.
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Josh Kushner is also the founder of venture capital firm Thrive Capital and the co-founder of Oscar Health, the health insurance startup that's been valued at $3.2 billion.
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Bream takes the reins from Orion Hindawi, co-founder and founding CTO, who remains CEO — a position he claimed from his co-founder and father, David Hindawi, in 2016.
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In 2014, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd founder, Jack Ma, and co-founder, Joe Tsai, pledged share options worth about $3 billion at the time to newly established charitable trusts.
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It has successfully merged with other programs, such as a founder-to-founder mentoring project that became part of All Raise's Female Founders Office Hours — responsible for 750 meetings.
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The new office is working with tech giants such as Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.
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The Breakthrough Prizes for scientific achievements were created by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner along with several technology pioneers, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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That case, over patents and copyrights, featured contentious testimony by Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle's founder and then chief executive, and Larry Page, the founder and chief executive of Google.
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Some of the more prominent examples include SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk, from South Africa, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union.
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Ms. Blaffer, the daughter of William Thomas Campbell — the founder of the Texas Company, later known as Texaco — married Robert Blaffer, the founder of what is now Exxon Mobile.
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He is the founder of the Sorenson Impact Center at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah and the founder of the Sorenson Impact Foundation.
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Past interviewees on the show have included Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, Walker and Co. founder Tristan Walker and Facebook COO and Leanin.
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And it is the pursuit of what is possible that fundamentally drives Zuckerberg, according to a conversation the Facebook founder had with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman earlier in 2017.
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But four men, led by Brogan BamBrogan, a founder, accused Hyperloop One's principal founder, the venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, and others of harassing them and eventually firing them wrongfully.
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Last June, its founder, Jesse Israel, 31, a music entrepreneur and founder of The Big Quiet, brought more than 700 people together to meditate in Central Park's Rumsey Playfield.
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Investors to date include Nick Robertson, founder of ASOS; Thomas Höegh, founder of Lovefilm; and Founders' Factory, the accelerator founded by Brent Hoberman and backed by Guardian Media Group.
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However, according to CEO and founder Founder Ashwin Madgavkar, the company quickly realized commercial farmers needed to cover thousands of acres, proving too big a job for most drones.
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As MarketWatch reports, both Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have expressed concerns about automation at its effects on the labor market.
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That makes him the third-richest person in Japan after Uniqlo founder Tadashi Yanai, who's worth an estimated $32.5 billion, and Keyence founder Takemitsu Takizaki, who's worth $18.2 billion.
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She has three children: Elon, a founder of PayPal and Tesla; Tosca, a filmmaker; and Kimbal, a founder of The Kitchen Community, a nonprofit that builds gardens in schools.
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Oculus Co-founder Nate Mitchell to Leave Facebook As Alex Heath points out, Mitchell's departure means that every co-founder of Oculus, Instagram, and WhatsApp have now left Facebook.
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Vargas joined fellow panelists Bobbi Brown (founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics) and co-founder of Health-Ade Kombucha, Vanessa Drew, to discuss all things wellness — personal, mental and physical.
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He was previously founder and CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, founder and president of the Energy Foundation, and has served on energy panels appointed by Presidents Bush (41) and Clinton.
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Jeff Raider, the co-founder and co-CEO of Harry's and co-founder of Warby Parker, likes to walk when he needs to think or get some head space.
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Daphne Koller is a co-founder of the online education company Coursera, and the founder and chief executive of Insitro, a company using machine learning to develop new drugs.
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Self-made billionaires, including tech entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson have also preached the importance of failing every once in awhile.
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In recent years, Burning Man has even become a hotbed for tech CEOs like Google co-founder Larry Page, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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" The Duchess of Sussex will be joined for this unique #IWD2019 panel by: – @AnnieLennox, Founder of @TheCircleNGO– Adwoa Aboah, Founder of @GurlsTalk– @JuliaGillard, Chair of @GIWLkings– Chrisann Jarrett, Founder of @LetUs_Learn– Angeline Murimirwa, Executive Director @Camfed — Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) March 1, 2019 Murimirwa, who is also co-founder of CAMFED's alumni association CAMA, says she will be using the panel discussion to address the fact "that there is still a great need out there.
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They include Tommy Andersen (co-founder and managing partner of ByFounders), Hampus Jakobsson (venture partner at BlueYard Capital and co-founder of TAT, which sold to Blackberry for $150 million), Jacob Wandt (founder of e-conomic, which sold to HG Capital in 2013 for $100 million-plus), Anders Pollas (co-founder and ex-CPO of Podio, the project management tool sold to Citrix for €50 million), and Gregers Kronborg (ex-general partner of Northzone).
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On the first of these, the company says that its board of directors includes, in addition to Lonsdale (who is now the chairman of the company); Katherine August-deWilde, Co-Founder and Vice-Chair of First Republic Bank; John Chambers, Founder and CEO of JC2 Ventures and Former Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems; Marc Andreessen, Co-Founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz; and Zac Bookman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenGov .
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The company's investors include Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Slow Ventures, Peterson Partners, Western Technology investments, Dave Gilboa, co-founder of Warby Parker; and Jeff Raider, co-founder of Harry's, among others.
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She is the founder of CyPhy Works, one of the leading commercial drone manufacturers, as well as a co-founder of iRobot, arguably the most successful robotics startup to date.
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Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including, most recently, Thrive and The Sleep Revolution.
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During the celebration dinner, he heard the CEO and co-founder of Odysee, Raghavan Menon (who's now a co-founder of Espresa), talking about how well Google treats its employees.
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The seed round was raised from — among others — Princeton's Alumni Entrepreneurs Fund, Reach Capital, 500 Startups, FoundersXFund, co-founder of SkypeJaan Tallinn, and the founder of Makey Makey, Jay Silver.
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Company co-founder and CEO Ariel Diaz says Blissfully actually helped him and his co-founder solve a problem they were having tracking the SaaS usage at their previous startups.
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Some complicated early history: Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd was also a co-founder at Tinder before she filed her own lawsuit against Tinder for alleged sexual harassment in 2014.
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"Zoë Saldana delivers an exceptional and mesmerizing tribute to Nina Simone," Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of RLJ Entertainment and founder of BET, said in a statement to PEOPLE.
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One more speaker, Gabo Arora, the founder and creative director of LightShed, was the creative director and senior adviser at the United Nations as well as the founder of UNVR.
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SpotHero CEO and co-founder Mark Lawrence will continue to be CEO, and Parking Panda CEO and founder Adam Zilberbaum will come along to SpotHero, as will COO James Bain.
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The idea for the startup was seeded back in 2013, when co-founder and CEO Aaron Schiff, previously the founder of the ad network Adrenalads, was purchasing his first home.
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Palmer Watch: Day 27 It's been 27 days since Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and former Facebook golden child,…Read more ReadIs Facebook Disappearing Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey?
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If you are a women founder or person of colour founder, apply here for a chance to be considered for one of the limited free diversity passes to the event.
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Gert Sylvest, co-founder of Tradeshift and GM of Tradeshift Frontiers, and Galia Benartzi, co-founder and head of business development for Bancor, join our growing list of confirmed speakers.
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He said PayPal founder/venture capitalist Peter Thiel (he helped to fund Hogan's lawsuit) and Gawker founder Nick Denton both sent him unsolicited emails at the end of last year.
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Charlie Javice, Frank's founder and chief executive Charlie Javice, Frank's founder and chief executive "You need to change the trajectory before people have to take on debt," Javice tells me.
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Yuliya Tarasava, co-founder of CNote Yuliya Tarasava, co-founder of CNote Eventually CNote wants to offer a full suite of savings products with varying returns and degrees of risk.
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TravelBank co-founder and CEO Duke Chung TravelBank co-founder and CEO Duke Chung Sometimes spending the big bucks to wine and dine a client can be a smart strategy.
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The work includes Oprah Winfrey, AfriCobra co-founder Barbara Jones-Hogu, literary figures Gwendolyn Brooks and Sandra Cisneros, and Jackie Taylor, the founder and CEO of the Black Ensemble Theater.
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Chatterbug co-founder Liz Clinkenbeard Chatterbug co-founder Liz Clinkenbeard The startup's data-driven approach could make it quick to expand to more languages and identify what's toughest to learn.
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"Two good friends just got even better [friends]," replies TransferWise co-founder Kristo Käärmann laughing, while Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield, who is also on the video call, smiles approvingly.
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Playdots, the company that lets gamers play with Dots, will soon have a new CEO as co-founder and current COO Patrick Moberg takes over for co-founder Paul Murphy.
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Thiel is not only buddies with the President-elect, but longtime friends of SpaceX founder Elon Musk, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who heads his own space project, Blue Origin.
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A keynote track included talks by Ansari and Hadfield, as well as from Celmatix CEO and founder Piraye Beim, and a fireside chat with North founder and CEO Stephen Lake.
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Diamond Foundry has raised at least $100 million from a large group of investors, including actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim and Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus.
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Other positive signs cited by analysts include co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey purchasing additional shares and co-founder Biz Stone announcing in May his return to Twitter.
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The S-1 doesn't disclose much financial information regarding Rebekah Neumann, who is named as a co-founder, Chief Brand and Impact Officer and the Founder and CEO of WeGrow.
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Others joining the round include notable U.K.-based investors Ed Wray, co-founder of Betfair, Dan Cobley, ex-Google U.K. MD, and Ian Hogarth, co-founder and chairman of Songkick.
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Nud Dudhia, co-founder and chef at London's Breddos Tacos Chris [Breddos Tacos co-founder] and I travelled quite extensively throughout America and Mexico in search of tacos and inspiration.
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People like Lending Club founder Renaud Laplanche, Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova (aka Supernova), and Citymapper Limited founder Azmat Yusuf, to name but a few.
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Mobli founder and chief executive founder Moshe Hogeg is no stranger to social media experiments: he also created Yo, the monosyllabic messaging app that became a viral hit in 2014.
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Anthony Di Iorio, founder of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada and a co-founder of Ethereum, a blockchain-based computing platform, was hired by Canada's largest stock exchange in January.
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Update: Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET and founder and chairman of RLJ Entertainment, which is distributing the Nina Simone biopic, has issued a statement in defense of Zoe Saldana.
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Rod Drury, co-founder and CEO of Xero, and Sam Morgan, co-founder and chairman of Pacific Fiber, wrote letters to the government in support of Thiel's request for citizenship.
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The wealthiest group includes such well-known names as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and President Trump, who took a tumble in this year's ranking.
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Three VCs recommended this book: Brad Feld, managing director at Foundry Group, Semil Shah, founder and general partner at Haystack, and John Fein, founder and managing partner at Firebrand Ventures.
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The outcomes are different, but what founder after founder, lawyer after lawyer, academic after academic, keeps saying is the same: None of that would have been possible without Ellen Pao.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp have all attended Burning Man, according to Bloomberg.
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Khajak Keledjian, founder and former C.E.O. of Intermix and the founder of Inscape, credits meditation, which he does twice daily, for reducing stress and improving his sleep and energy levels.
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Previously, English was the co-founder of Kayak and Boston Light Software (sold to Intuit); co-founder of Intermute (sold to Trend Micro); SVP engineering and product management at Interleaf.
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One, as well as Kevin Hartz, co-founder of Eventbrite & Xoom, Ilkka Paananen, co-founder of Supercell, and Nan Li and Daniel Liem of Obvious Ventures (individually, not via Obvious).
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Two notable alumni from that graduating class include Jon Stein, the CEO and founder of roboadviser Betterment, and Daniel Webber, CEO and founder of international money-transfer comparison site FXCompared.
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And if you're a founder who wants to talk to an experienced designer, executive coach, product manager, marketing/sales expert, VC or other founder, you could start with this list.
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Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and Founder Fund partner, invested in the company along with ATAI Life Sciences, a biotech company that develops psychedelic medicine for mental health purposes.
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Samir Sood, the founder of Venture Highway Samir Sood, the founder of Venture Highway The VC firm said it has already made a number of investments through its second fund.
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Mankind Group Family office, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, SAR Group Family office, Zomato co-founder Pankaj Chaddah and Urmin Group family office also participated in the new financing round.
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Founded by Barney Hussey-Yeo and Aleksandra Wozniak, the start-up got $22015,28 from angel investors in January 210.42 including Skype founder Niklas Zennström and Zoopla co-founder Alex Chesterman.
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The biotech company, which has a market cap of $916 million, has attracted the attention of tech giants such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.
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Union Square Ventures is joining Numerai's previous partners, including Peter Diamandis, a founder of Singularity University, and Howard Morgan, a founder of the unusually successful hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies.
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Speaking on this trend, we'll have AppDynamics founder and Unusual Ventures co-founder Jyoti Bansal and Battery Ventures general partner Neeraj Agrawal in conversation with TechCrunch's enterprise reporter Ron Miller.
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The buyout was funded by CEO Seth Besmertnik, chief operating officer and now co-founder Selina Eizik and former founder and CEO of online food ordering service Seamless, Jason Finger.
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The buyout was funded by CEO Seth Besmertnik, chief operating officer and now co-founder Selina Eizik and former founder and CEO of online food ordering service Seamless, Jason Finger.
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Mr. Neuman is also the founder of the Azrieli Architectural Archive at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the co-founder of Open Source Architecture, an international research collaborative.
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In September, the House received a complementary fund, when three more of Sweden's most successful young startup founders — Carl Manneh, the founder of Mojang/Minecraft; Sebastian Knutsson, the founder of the gaming company, King; and Filip Tysander, the founder of Daniel Wellington — agreed to commit resources to an investment fund for Norrsken.
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Plenty of Silicon Valley luminaries also piled into the round, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang; Square's project engineering lead Gokul Rajaram; Kevin Weil (the former Twitter product head who just hightailed it to Instagram); BranchOut founder Rick Marini; Haystack founder Semil Shah; and angel investor Ellen Levy.
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But the startup already has more than 30 employees and has enlisted a number of big-deal executives as investors, including Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Box CEO Aaron Levie, StumbleUpon/Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, Thrive Capital/Oscar co-founder Joshua Kushner and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.
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The WikiLeaks founder released his answers in rape allegations testimony The WikiLeaks founder released his answers in rape allegations testimony WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has defied Swedish prosecutors and published the testimony he gave when interviewed over a sexual assault allegation last month, making his version of events public for the first time.
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Helen Greiner, co-founder, iRobot Helen Greiner, co-founder, iRobot From C. A. Rotwang in "Metropolis" to Tony Stark in the Marvel movies, there have been plenty of cinematic explorations of robot builders, but the story of iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner might be more interesting than anything yet committed to celluloid.
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Most notably, there are Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch (with rumored plans to launch a VC firm), Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine, VICE founder/CEO Shane Smith (who transitioned to a Chairman role), Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, and Oath's CEO Tim Armstrong.
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In case you missed it, some of our recently announced speakers include Nuro co-founder and CEO Dave Ferguson, Scoot SVP of Product Katie DeWitt, co-founder and CEO of Voyage Oliver Cameron and co-founder, president and CEO of Mobileye, Amnon Shashua — who also is a senior vice president at Intel.
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Among them: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and now the world's richest person; Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google's parent, Alphabet; Howard Schultz, chairman of Starbucks; Tory Burch, the fashion mogul; Ray Dalio, founder of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates; Dan Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans who has remade Detroit; Henry Kravis, the co-founder of KKR; David Rubenstein, the co-founder of Carlyle Group; Michael Milken, the financier and philanthropist; John Doerr, the venture capitalist; Jim Breyer, one of the first investors in Facebook; as well as members of three wealthy families: the Waltons, the Kochs and the Pritzkers.
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick's 10100 fund and current Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi have invested in Luminous, a small start-up building an artificial intelligence chip.
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Joining Stripe co-founder and president John Collison onstage will be Mary Ku, the Facebook exec who heads many of the company's commerce initiatives, and Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures.
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"Our inspiration has always been food and cocktails," former attorney and co-founder Leslie Polizzotto, 50, tells CNBC Make It of herself and co-founder Troy Neal, 41, a former bartender.
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Together with co-founder Nabin Roy, a serial startup entrepreneur, MyPetrolPump co-founder and chief executive Ashish Gupta pooled $13,000 to build the company's first two refuelers and launch the business.
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Kathleen Tso, content strategist, co-founder of Banana Mag; Vicki Ho, publicist, DJ, co-founder of Banana Mag (Issue 5 is now available to purchase here) What's your Asian-American story?
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And longtime digital music entrepreneur Dalton Caldwell, who is currently founder and CEO of Mixed Media Labs and a partner at Y Combinator, was the co-founder and CEO of Imeem.
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We're going to get into all that with Trevor Martin, the co-founder of Mammoth Biosciences and Rachel Haurwitz, the co-founder of Caribou bioscience this week at Disrupt SF 2018.
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Kamprad is hardly a household name, anymore than James Sinegal (founder of Costco) or John Mackey (founder of Whole Foods, who might be a bit more familiar to Austin-based entrepreneurs).
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A 240-founder team we learn is 13% less likely to fail in comparison to a single-founder company and the ratio drops again for teams of 21 or more cofounders.
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Junqueira is not only the female co-founder currently leading the largest neobank in the world, she is also the female co-founder currently leading the world's largest venture-backed company.
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If you're new to the series, be sure to watch our interviews with Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant, Slack engineer Erica Baker and Trans*H4CK founder Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler.
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Your Founder Pass gets you the same benefits as an Innovator Pass but at an already discounted rate — but you must be a (co)founder of a company (of any size).
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Co-founder Kaarmann was named CEO in July, replacing co-founder Hinrikus, who announced he was stepping down but staying on in a part-time role as chairman and board member.
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Then-CEO and co-founder of Tesla Martin Eberhard admitted that neither he nor his co-founder Marc Tarpenning, nor the company's chairman Elon Musk, had a background in automotive engineering.
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Thanks to a $3.2 million match offer underwritten by Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, and WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, all donations to classroom projects through the #BestSchoolDay initiative will be doubled.
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These two join a line-up of speakers we've already announced, including founder of AOL and Revolution Steve Case, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Forerunner Ventures founder Kirsten Green and many more.
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MBS visited with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai; Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz; and Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, among others who praised his social progressiveness.
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Individual investors in the round include Steve Chen, co-founder and former chief technology officer of YouTube, Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin and Charles Huang, the co-creator of Guitar Hero.
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It isn't the most usual situation for a founder to write a review trashing a competitor's new product, but Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has never been the most conventional entrepreneur.
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Refugees like former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Google co-founder Seregy Brin, and Nobel Prize-winning physicist and IRC founder Albert Einstein came to the U.S. to rebuild their lives.
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The Thrive Journal is full of appearances from Huffington's famous friends, like Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Uber Founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, and Justin Bieber's sometimes enemy Selena Gomez.
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In case you missed those, they include Brian Behlendorf, the executive director of the Hyperledger project, Jun Hasegawa, CEO and founder of OmiseGO, and Leanne Kemp, CEO and founder of Everledger.
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And founder after founder is getting up there — and we did this too, I was part of this — gets up and makes these huge proclamations about what their company is doing.
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Founder, The Honest Company Alba is the founder of The Honest Company and Honest Beauty, companies providing more than 101 safe and effective products for baby, personal care, cleaning, and more.
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Bumble CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe, Her founder and CEO Robyn Exton, and Coffee Meets Bagel cofounder and COO Dawoon Kang will be joining us on stage at the big show.
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Medal co-founder and CEO Lonnie Rae Kurlander Medal co-founder and CEO Lonnie Rae Kurlander "I believe it's my opportunity to make the biggest impact on healthcare" she tells me.
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Among other companies to come from its team are the subscription business BarkBox and the office cleaning and management startup Managed by Q. Prehype founder Henrik Werdelin is a BarkBox founder.
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Apollo inspired young people who went on to change the world, like Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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Huffington, the founder of the HuffPost who now leads a company called Thrive Global, joined the ride-hailing company's board in 2016 as an ally of the ousted founder Travis Kalanick.
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A complaint filed on Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California by Mr. Van Vuuren, one Xfund founder, against Patrick S. Chung, the other founder, and the fund itself.
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The Series A round is led by Index Ventures, with participation from Revolt Ventures, Adevinta, Greg Marsh (founder of Onefinestay), Jeremy Helbsy (former Savills CEO) and Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise co-founder).
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"Recently, I've been telling founders to 'know your limit," he told Nikkei Business, seemingly referencing WeWork founder Adam Neumann and Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, both of whom were pushed out.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's co-founder and former college roommate Chris Hughes this month used a New York Times opinion piece to urge U.S. regulators to break up the tech giant.
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The Washington Post reports that a court filing that failed to properly redact the name of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange makes clear that Wikileaks founder has a sealed charge against him.
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Dual-class shares and other types of mechanisms that preserve founder control can be beneficial, allowing the founder to focus on building the company and maintain it for the longer term.
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Robert Ackerman Jr. is the founder and a managing director of AllegisCyber, an early-stage cybersecurity venture firm, and a founder of DataTribe, a cybersecurity startup "studio" in metropolitan Washington, D.C.
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ICONOMI chief executive and co-founder Tim Zagar ICONOMI chief executive and co-founder Tim Zagar For Zagar, the move is toward the direction of how traditional startups were making money.
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Chris Bach, co-founder and president and Matt Biilmann, co-founder and CEO see the change they are trying to make as part of the larger shift to an API economy.
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This number pushes the net worth of the Amazon founder past that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, still sitting pretty with $90.7 billion, earning Bezos the title of world's richest person.
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Venus, 38, is the founder and CEO of athletic apparel line EleVen, founder of design company V-Starr Interiors and has partnerships with the likes of Systane Complete dry eye drops.
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Langone, the co-founder of Home Depot and founder of investment firm Invemed Associates, has given hundreds of millions of dollars to the NYU Langone medical center and NYU's medical school.
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In recent years, schools and education programs have been founded by Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla; Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix; and Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.
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It's a tale the company is allowed to own because a founder, Karl Benz, is credited with making the first car, and its other founder, Gottlieb Daimler, was not far behind.
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He's a co-founder of the non-profit Open AI, which aims to prevent dangerous artificial intelligence, and the founder of Neuralink, a company working to connect the brain with computers.
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The company named to its board some big names in health and technology, including former CMS administrator Andy Slavitt, Rock Health co-founder Halle Tecco and Cloudera co-founder Jeff Hammerbacher.
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" —Tamara Mellon, co-founder and chief creative officer of luxury footwear brand Tamara Mellon; co-founder of Jimmy Choo; equal pay and women's empowerment advocate "If you aren't memorable, you're forgotten.
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, TOMS founding members Jake Strom and Blake Mycoskie, GirlBoss founder/CEO Sophia Amoruso and Thrive Market CEO Nick Green also participated, as did existing investors Science Inc.
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Hello Fresh co-founder Jessica Schultz and Dots co-founder Paul Murphy have been promoted to General Partners, in addition to existing GPs Pär-Jörgen Pärson, Jeppe Zink, and Michiel Kotting.
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With a net worth of more than $90 billion, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is the second richest person in the world, behind only Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to Forbes.
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The Microsoft co-founder told Zuckerberg to learn from Gates' own mistakes in the 1990s and pay careful attention to D.C. Gates has reportedly become a mentor for the Facebook founder.
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Another former Tinder co-founder, Whitney Wolfe Herd, sued Tinder back in 2014 with claims of sexual harassment against another co-founder, Justin Mateen, who is a plaintiff on Tuesday's suit.
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Among the speakers: • Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State and presidential candidate • Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President and C.E.O., IBM • Gwyneth Paltrow, Founder and C.E.O., goop • Reed Hastings, Founder and C.E.O., Netflix • Kim Kardashian West, Entrepreneur, beauty mogul and producer • Kris Jenner, C.E.O., Jenner Communications • Dara Khosrowshahi, C.E.O., Uber • Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice • Valerie Jarrett, Board Chair, When We All Vote •Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, Head of Community and C.E.O., Airbnb • Alex Gorsky, Chairman and C.E.O., Johnson & Johnson • Stephanie Lampkin, Founder and C.E.O., Blendoor • Dennis Muilenburg, President and C.E.O., The Boeing Company • Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder, Instagram • Manuel Oliver, Founder, ChangetheRef.org
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Commentary by Dustin McKissen, the founder of McKissen + Company.
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Julio Alejandro, CEO & Founder, Jada Consulting – "Taming Disruptive Technologies"
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Noah Robbins: I'm the CEO & Founder of Ark Foods.
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Obama Foundation summit : Prince Harry, Chobani founder among attendees.
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Hudson sued Kitson — not the store's founder, Fraser Ross.
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De AG: * Current sole director and founder of uhr.
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On CNBC's "Trading Nation " Wednesday, the founder of TradingAnalysis.
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Lori Atwood is a CFP & founder of Fearless Finance.
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"Apple can't do this, " Mojiit founder Jeremy Greene said.
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Our sources include:Henry Ward, founder and CEO of Carta, .
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" — JIMMY FALLON "Today was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's birthday.
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" NationsShares founder Scott Nations said Friday on "Options Action.
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" The Bulwark founder Charlie Sykes: "Read more... tweet less.
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John Paulson, founder of hedge fund Paulson & Company, Inc.
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He's the founder and owner of MacAndrews & Forbes, Inc.
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" I said, "Well, I'm the founder, I started Brew.
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Prior to the Series A, the team raised $3M in seed funding, from investors including Google Maps founder Lars Rasmussen, iCAP founder Michael Spencer, Nicole Junkermann founder of NJF Capital, and Lulu founder Alexandra Chong, as well as taking in $1.5M via different government grants schemes — using these relatively slender resources (for a hardware startup) to reboot an existing product, the kegel exerciser, by adding sensors and connectivity to enable real-time feedback and app-enabled guidance.
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Unmortgage founder and CEO Rayhan Rafiq-Omar (centre) has departed the company Unmortgage founder and CEO Rayhan Rafiq-Omar (centre) has departed the company Unmortgage, the London-based startup that wants to let people buy as little as 5% of a home and rent the rest, has lost its founder and CEO, TechCrunch has learned.
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The original founders of the continent's big e-commerce startups, Jumia (Tunde Kehinde and Raphael Afaedor) and Konga (Sim Shagaya) went to Harvard Business School and worked in the U.S. BRCK co-founder Juliana Rotich BRCK co-founder Juliana Rotich BRCK co-founder Juliana Rotich is a University of Missouri grad and MIT Fellow.
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Limited partners in Monstro Ventures include familiar names in tech and media, including Prager's Revision 3 co-founder Kevin Rose, along with Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams, Lowercase Capital's Chris Sacca, Zuckerberg Media founder Randi Zuckerberg, 500 Startups' Dave McClure, author and Book in a Box CEO Tucker Max, Rackspace founder Richard Yoo and others.
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While Patsnap, too, has leveraged its investor to expand into Europe, where it has a sizeable operation in addition to its Singapore HQ. [Left to right] Heang Chhor, Qualgro founder and managing partner, Jason Edwards, co-founder and partner, and Peter Huynh, co-founder and partner But the strategic deals also flow the other way.
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I learned this at eBay; I saw firsthand how our outside directors Scott Cook (founder of Intuit) and Howard Schultz (founder of Starbucks) brought important new perspectives that complemented the strong contributions of the insiders already on the board, from then-CEO Meg Whitman and founder Pierre Omidyar to Bob Kagle (GP at Benchmark Capital).
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In case you missed it, some of our recently announced speakers include Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov, Nuro co-founder and CEO Dave Ferguson, Scoot SVP of Product Katie DeWitt, co-founder and CEO of Voyage Oliver Cameron, co-founder, president and CEO of Mobileye, Amnon Shashua — who also is a senior vice president at Intel.
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The other Latinas to sit down with the President include Patricia Funegra, founder and CEO of La Cocina VA, Dyan Medina Gibbens, former Air Force Captain now founder and CEO of the drone company Trumbull Unmanned,Claudia Mizra, an immigrant from Colombia founder and CEO of Akorbi a global provider of multilingual services and staffing.
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They include Dylan Field (Founder and CEO, Figma), Emily Choi (COO, Coinbase), Charlie Cheever (Co-Founder of Expo & Quora), Gustaf Alströmer (Partner, Y Combinator), Tikhon Berstram (Co-Founder, Parse), Larry Gadea (CEO, Envoy), Jude Gomila (CEO, Golden), James Smith (CEO, Bugsnag), Fred Stevens-Smith (CEO, Rainforest), Bobby Goodlatte, Marc McGabe, Julia DeWahl and others.
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"Johnnemann Nordhagen, founder of Dim Bulb (Where the Water Tastes Like Wine), co-founder of Fullbright (Gone Home) "Most game devs are fairly like-minded when it comes to finding practical solutions.
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The founder tried working with the in-store stylists at local retailers, but didn't have any success until she met a stylist Nicole Chiu-Wang, now Boon + Gable's co-founder and COO.
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Added to that, Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal has committed to stay retain his shares, although there's no word on fellow co-founder Sachin Bansal who had been tipped to move on.
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Spotted in the crowd was Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, Invemed chief and Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone, KKR co-founder Henry Kravis, Bob Pittman and John Sykes of iHeart Media.
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Liquid Death, which sells canned water for the punk rock crowd, attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone.
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Atrium co-founder Justin Kan Atrium co-founder Justin Kan Here's a breakdown of how Atrium Scale works: The Atrium Scale method revolves around the concepts of how to pitch and when.
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Last month, co-founder and chairman Shervin Pishevar resigned from the company amid allegations of sexual assault and misconduct (which Pishevar denies), and Virgin Group co-founder Richard Branson took his place.
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Ever Loved co-founder and CEO Alison Johnston Ever Loved co-founder and CEO Alison Johnston Johnston's startup Ever Loved wants to provide peace of mind during the rest-in-peace process.
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