The Brumleys and all the early employees also chipped in to get founders' stock.
They're not seen as "corporate guys, " and they've made enough money from their founders' stock to retire or launch a new venture.
Now she and her founders own stock at the acquiring parent company.
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We don't count founders' stock and we don't count successful executives who have built their wealth over a longer period--like Louis Gerstner Jr.
But he sold all his founders' stock early on because he didn't want the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, where he is the director, to be caught in a conflict of interest.
His great-grandfather was one of the founders of the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The company is heavily male, but it has never regarded this as a problem because it is privately-owned and women are not a top priority with the founders, who still hold the majority of stock.
More than a fourth of the founders of the Forbes 200 Best Small Companies sock away stock in trusts or family partnerships and limited liability companies designed to benefit their heirs.
In Silicon Valley, it has become popular to find creative ways to shield management and corporate founders from shareholder pressures, either by creating super-voting stock or trying to avoid the stock market all together.
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The founders rang the opening bell on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and the Christian and secular press covered their launch.
Sales grew by leaps and bounds and profit margins soared, rewarding the company founders and the herd of investors who fell in love with the stock.
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First, 37% of these big public corporations were actually under some significant level of control by the families of their founders, either because they own more than 5% of the stock or they sit in officer and director seats.
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Founders: Mark Diks, 45, and Pieter Diks, 44, board member Stock options: 12% interest in company Why on the list: The Diks brothers now run 400 stores in the Netherlands' formerly fragmented bedroom-furniture market.
Google co-founders LarryPageLarry Page and SergeyBrinSergey Brin so far have resisted requests to split their company's stock so more people could afford to buy a few shares.
For first time founders, who Harris says often struggle with understanding the maximum value of the dangling carrot of stock options, he laid it out quite simply: the standard drill is a one year cliff for new employees after which stock options can begin to vest monthly or annually.
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When its membership grew quickly, its founders, Joseph Shapira and Alon Carmel, renamed the company MatchNet and went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2000.
Google (GOOG) announced last night that it would create a triple class structure, to ensure the founders and Eric Schmidt hold on to full control of the company forever even as they use more stock for employee compensation.
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For example: Typing in Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) turns up a single page with a brief company history including pictures of the founders, a company profile, annual sales, employees, office phone numbers, executive's names, stock charts and recent news.
But investor desires for quick returns (count founders among those individuals) led to a hasty IPO, which has left Groupon with a reputation as a disastrous stock above all else, overshadowing its actual business.
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