And, by the way, his choice of partners, first Hellman Friedman, founded by my late and most marvelous cousin F.
Founded by Pat Robertson, probably the most controversial fundamentalist Christian in America and still a force, if somewhat diluted, in the district, the college has produced a potent network of alumni that includes Mr Rigell and Mr McDonnell.
As with most Silicon Valley companies founded by entrepreneurial wunderkinds (read: Apple, Facebook, Google), Hastings controls a large number of Netflix shares.
Muslim chaplains in the American military have been selected, trained and certified by Saudi-funded organizations founded by one of this country's most prominent and best-connected Islamists, Abdurahman Alamoudi.
Charter schools, part of the public school system but founded by parents and teachers and free from most education regulations, have shown how much better the same amount of money can be utilized.
Her program is used to credential Muslim chaplains for U.S. prisons and our military. (The armed forces require its chaplain candidates to take 72 credit hours from Dr. Mattson's program.) This credentialing was previously performed by organizations founded by Abdurahman Alamoudi, once among the most prominent Muslim Brotherhood operatives in America.
Most companies with such cultures were founded by people who had an obsession with data.
The firm is relatively new by most corporate measures, having been founded in 1976.
In contrast, the other 2004 super-filly, Ouija Board, is owned solely by Lord Derby, whose ancestor founded the world's most famous Flat race.
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The issue is particularly sensitive in Mexico because of the sexual abuse committed by Father Marcial Maciel, who founded the country's most influential order, the Legion of Christ.
In the mid-1930s, when he left the institute with a doctorate in electronics, he was taken on by Bell Telephone Laboratories, founded by the inventor of the telephone and in its day the most famous scientific research and development organisation in the world.
Van Halen, founded by guitarist Eddie Van Halen, are one of America's most successful hard rock bands, with hits including Dance The Night Away and Jump.
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Seven of the 10 most valuable brands in the world come from American companies founded by immigrants or children of immigrants.
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Avina was founded 15 years ago by one of the world's least known and most foresighted philanthropists, Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny, 61.
He has founded and sold multiple companies, the most recent of which was acquired by Buddy Media, which in turn was acquired by Salesforce.
However, it is widely believed that the philosophy of Hojjatieh survives, espoused by numerous theological schools in Iran, the most prestigious being the Hojjatieh-founded Haqqani school in Qom.
Petsmart.com, founded by Idealab and 48% owned by retailer Petsmart, is edging ahead, having logged the most traffic of all online pet retailers in December: It had almost twice the revenue of Pets.com in its first six months.
FSV, founded in 2006 by former NFL digital chief Chris Russo, has taken a different approach to growth than most of its competitors.
Septen was co-founded in 1948 in the northern city of Cap-Haitien by saxophonist Ulrich Pierre Louis at a time when most Haitian bands were playing music from neighboring Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
After a brief stint in London, George Balanchine (as he was by then) moved to America in 1933, where he founded American ballet, and became perhaps the most inventive choreographer of the 20th century.
Founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon in 2006, it has about 10 million users in Europe (most of whom use the free service), and till recently has struggled to break into the United States because of reluctance by labels.
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Of the three affiliates, AQAP, founded when the Saudi and Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda merged in 2009, is reckoned by Western spooks to be most dangerous internationally.
Founded by Stanford University engineers David Packard and William Hewlett in a Palo Alto, Calif. garage in 1938, for most of its history HP grew at a near exponential rate.
He dropped out of Stanford University and founded a startup, Infogami, that was acquired by Reddit, a site where readers post links to articles and the most popular rise to the top of the page.
Founded in 1963 by the company's late patriarch, Sun Hung Kai developed into one of Hong Kong's most successful businesses, and when the elder Kwok died in 1990, he left the reins of Sun Hung Kai to his three sons, with the eldest, Walter Kwok, at the helm.
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