Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their first meeting with a venture capitalist, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, was all they needed. "With no promotion, no advertising and just word of mouth, something was happening," Moritz recalls. "Jerry and David had developed something for themselves that, I think probably to their great surprise and consternation, was as attractive to other people as it was to them." Moritz took a gamble on the entrepreneurs and gave them $1 million for a 25% stake (it turned out to be a good bet--that stake would now be worth around $2 billion). Stanford told them they could keep...
What he is most likely trying to do is continue the steady upward and outward trajectory he has plotted for Prada. And Miuccia Prada--the onetime aspiring communist--has evidently embraced her husband's capitalist dreams...
...unions, which view vouchers as a threat to jobs, and they seemed like a very long shot. But lately vouchers have been picking up steam. Democrats like Milwaukee Mayor John Norquist and former New York Congressman Floyd Flake have joined Republicans in advocating school choice. And last week venture capitalist Ted Forstmann and Wal-Mart heir John Walton announced the Children's Scholarship Fund, a $200 million initiative to provide scholarships for 50,000 children to attend private or parochial schools...
Meanwhile, Vermont to the north is dotted with antiques shops and picturesque Green Mountain hamlets, Vermont is ideal for hiking on the Appalachian Trail (AT) or biking on the state's wooded dirt roads. Home to the hippie capitalist empire of Ben & Jerry's, in Barre, Vermont is easily accessible by Vermont Transit, whose buses run frequently from South Station...
Call me a capitalist pig, but I fully appreciate our high expectations for consumer service. Being a spoiled American is not a bad way of life...