Several years back he founded another company, publicly traded Central European Media Enterprises, to invest in television stations in central and eastern Europe.

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Bashir co-founded Peek a year ago after several years mulling over the 20 hours it once took her to book a weekend trip to Istanbul.

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Udemy, StartApp, Kaltura and Kaggle were all founded as small startups and in several short years grew into global technology leaders.

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Several years ago, he co-founded Gluecode , a developer of open source application servers.

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Two years ago, he and several colleagues founded Chicago-based American Working Capital, which invests their own money and capital from a few wealthy families.

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Founded in 1952 by a Hungarian named Joseph Zeltzer, it was purchased several years ago by an ambitious group of private investors.

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Claude Nobs, who founded the Montreux festival nearly 50 years ago, died in January after several weeks in a coma following a skiing accident.

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Founded in 1898, the distillery changed hands several times and was empty for many years until 1993, when malt whisky specialists Gordon and MacPhail restored it and the Prince of Wales officially reopened the distillery in its centenary year.

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Several years later, they turned that idea into a way to help children around the world and founded the nonprofit 100cameras.

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