Leong, who's the grandson of the founder and all of 30 years old, vows to help change that.
How many folks bet on a comeback for Dell when its eponymous founder returned half a dozen years ago?
"It's extremely difficult for me to tell you the secret of anything, " says Bill Kalush, 47 years old, founder of the center.
But a few years ago, founder Stephen Sullivan sold the company, which is now part of private equity group that owns other skiwear manufacturers.
Last week, following a profit warning, Li Ning said it is replacing its chief executive of 20 years with the founder, and investor TPG Group is stepping in to overhaul operations.
The company started in the temperature-controls business in 1885, two years after its founder, Warren S. Johnson, a professor at the State Normal School in Whitewater, Wisconsin, received a patent for the electric room thermostat.
The youngest in the region is Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, 30 years old, who was born in Brazil and now lives in Singapore after renouncing his United States citizenship in 2011, days before the Facebook IPO.
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Two years ago, founder Brian Scudamore e-mailed the producers of the Oprah Winfrey show asking--in all of one paragraph--to be featured on any upcoming segment having to do with home renovation, a popular topic among the show's viewers.
"It acts as a megaphone, " says one Submittable co-founder, Michael FitzGerald, 42 years old.
Dell's success over the last 29 years has made its founder one of the richest men in America.
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"Charlie is an incredible boy and we are extremely grateful for all he has done for us over the years, " said founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow.
Mr. Welch was the CEO of General Electric for 21 years and is the founder of the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University.
"Ten years ago, I said that Scotland was on the way to becoming a Third World economy in 50 years, " writes founder and chief executive Douglas McWilliams.
Yesterday, Women for Women announced that Afshan Khan will be taking over as CEO of the organization, a position that founder Zainab Salbi has held for years.
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The Scary Cow Festival for locally made films has grown to more than 250 filmmakers from 70 when it first started at the Castro three years ago, says founder Jager McConnell.
In 2008, by all accounts, Chip Conley was a bestselling author and the visionary pioneer of the boutique hotel industry, which he kick-started 25 years ago as the Founder of the Joie de Vivre Hotel chain.
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Damm, who has worked with Ashoka for over five years and is a founder of DIYRockets and a co-founder of Matternet, which are aeronautics and aerospace companies designed to launch new industries and benefit the world.
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Gary Farlow, the company's founder, started glassblowing more than 30 years ago in the San Francisco Bay area.
Charity founder, Mr Downey worked for several years building up business links with the Middle East during his career.
Her pal, ImClone founder Samuel Waksal , just got seven years--without parole--for charges including securities fraud and obstruction of justice.
He is Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor viewed by many Chinese as the founder of the country 6, 000 years ago.
Five years ago, he and founder Jacob Wolff-Petersen envisioned the gaming industry evolving to this point of effortless cross-platform synergy.
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Some of the outgoing California millionaires of recent years include Netscape's founder, Jim Clark, who moved to Florida, and Ebay's Pierre Omidyar, who moved to Nevada.
Over 120 years ago Thomas Edison, founder of GE, created a way to string still photographs together in a way that made those images move in lifelike ways.
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The company began in 1943 in a small village in Sweden, when its founder, Ingvar Kamprad, was just 17 years old.
This is why Newcomb and his co-founder Mark Lu worked so hard for two years to rebuild their JavasScript stack from the ground up.
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The stock is currently at its lowest level in more than five years despite efforts by co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang to revitalize the company.
Josh Reich, Simple's co-founder, said the average Simple user is 28 years old.
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