One business change that invites scrutiny: a bid by the prominent Suryadjaya family to buy some 20% of shares in diversified conglomerate Astra, which the family founded in the 1950s before losing it to foreign and Suharto-linked interests when eldest son Edward's heavily indebted Bank Summa went bust in 1992.
Lowe founded Greenstart in 2011 and before that started and headed a few companies, including Jumpstart Auto Media.
The state-backed development lender founded in 1948 - even before the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany - is 80%-owned by the federal government and the states own the rest.
Yet in real life Mark Zuckerberg has had the same girlfriend since before he founded Facebook in 2004.
Mr Frommer founded the company in 1957, before selling it to publisher Simon and Schuster in 1977.
BBC: Google 'sells Frommer's guides business back to founder'
They founded Sand Hill Group in 1997 before the dot-com bubble and that yielded some big investment returns.
FORBES: Constantin Delivanis' Voyage from Alexandria to Mountain View
The National Weather Service was founded in 1870, 100 years before NOAA existed.
The scooters are emblazoned with a print inspired by the life of Florence Broadhurst, a turn-of-the-last-century singer and comedienne who founded a finishing school in Shanghai before moving to England and then to Australia to set up a wallpaper company.
French Protestants, fleeing persecution at home, founded a Florida colony in 1564, before all but two of the Pilgrims were born.
"I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label, " said Mr. Ferry, who studied art before he founded Roxy Music in 1970 with Brian Eno.
He has already become friendlier to the party in the coalition that was founded by another former prime minister, Romano Prodi, before he went off to run the European Commission in Brussels.
Aileu was chosen as a base because Falintil was founded there in the mid-1970s and encamped there before the 1999 vote.
It turns out those concerns were well-founded, as was most recently demonstrated in a case before the U.S. Military Court of Appeals.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Fundamentally Transforming' the Military
It is older than its larger rival, having been founded, as Goldstar, in 1958, more than a decade before Samsung entered the electronics industry.
The group was founded by Bosco Ntaganda, was an officer in the Rwandan army before he left to join a rebel movement in DR Congo.
The Oram "Oramics" Synthesiser (sic) was built by Daphne Oram in 1957, a year before she co-founded the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to research and develop electronic music.
ENGADGET: 'Kraftwerk Who?' Pioneering '50s Synthesizer unearthed in French Barn
Rothblatt is currently chief executive of biotech United Therapeutics, which she founded, but before that she was one of the central figures in creating Sirius Satellite Radio.
Founded in 1968, it was the UK's biggest card retailer and before its collapse employed about 8, 000 staff.
NeXT was founded by Apple chief Steve Jobs after his departure from Apple in 1996, and before his return in 1997.
Founded in 2009 as a distributor of solar energy equipment, Kiwi was called PVPower before it changed its name just recently to focus on selling solar electric systems to consumers rather than installers.
FORBES: Startup Kiwi Uses Social Media To Sell Solar To Homeowners
In Europe, where the flagship Data Protection Directive came into effect in 1995, before firms such as Google and Facebook were even founded, the European Commission is conducting a review of its privacy policies.
Before Wolk got involved, the minority shareholders of a company Lee founded in the 1990s had for a long time unsuccessfully litigated over these characters, but Wolk has not been dissuaded.
FORBES: Hedge Fund Elliott Management Is Backing Stan Lee Media's Spider-Man Lawsuit Against Disney
That's no mean feat when DMM looks to have been founded in 2012 and filed for the Matrix One trademark on June 8th, two weeks before we saw the device ourselves.
Charles Taylor waged a brutal rebellion before winning the presidency in 1997 in Liberia, the West African nation founded by freed American slaves.
NPR: Charles Taylor Still a Controversial Figure in Western Africa
Before he won the prize in physiology and medicine, Lee Hartwell co-founded Rosetta Inpharmatics.
Pollack previously worked at Merrill Lynch and a number of other investment firms before joining forces Centre Partners in 1991, five years after the company was founded by his father Lester.
FORBES: Meet The Men Who Bought And Sold Bumble Bee Tuna...Twice
Disclosure about Thiel: He was briefly, in 1989, an intern at Upside magazine, which I had co-founded with a friend the year before.
应用推荐