Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because most of the employees just graduated from college and don't know any better, and in part because, as one says, "we're in the music space, and people think that's cool." If any employees do gripe, Hinman--who recycles old business cards by crossing out his former employer's name and scribbling MongoMusic.com on them--can remind them that for six weeks in 1995 he lived in a tent on the roof of a Stanford physics lab. And despite the sweatshop conditions, Hinman is a benign manager. "When 5 o'clock on Friday rolls around, I expect...
Analysts give TiVo, which plans to sell shares in an IPO, the early lead in the competition, noting that it has outstripped Replay in sales and investment partnerships. Last week, apparently to boost its dealmaking power with Hollywood, Replay named Kim LeMasters, former president of CBS Entertainment, as its chairman and CEO. "They have not brought me in for my ability to figure out what bugs are on the CPU," LeMasters says. "They brought me in for that portfolio I brought from Hollywood and for my different mind-set and my ability to examine the marketplace...
...offices and copying them. The pilfered papers--which among other things documented the company's efforts to market to kids and its knowledge years ago of nicotine's addictive effects--eventually found their way into the national media. Williams' dossier, along with the whistle blowing of B&W's former chief of research, Jeffrey Wigand (whose story will be told in the upcoming movie The Insider), formed the core of the states' case against Big Tobacco...
...Henry A. Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State
When young entrepreneurs have their phones working, they can call Terri Spears, who'll hire someone to answer them. A 31-year-old former human-resources director for a San Francisco bank, she founded AskHR.com 18 months ago. She and her five employees handle only midsize e-commerce companies. She provides a bureaucracy that will keep their free spirits happy but out of litigation. "A lot of them are very naive when we meet with them," she says. "I tell them, 'You're going to need workers' compensation.'" Then she explains to them what that...