The only ones not included in the option plan are Murthy and the four founders still with the company (one left in 1983, the other retired in 2000), because they already own enough shares.

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Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay in 2006, a move that eventually led to the conviction of four founders.

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Some of the cash from PartyGaming's flotation may go towards buying smaller competitors that pose a threat (though the lion's share is expected to end up in the pockets of its four founders).

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Campbell: The four still have their founders.

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The youth of the founders (Brin is thirty-four and Page is thirty-five) leads to jokes that an adult like Schmidt, who is fifty-two, was essential to manage Google.

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Just four months in the founders agree that their new investors have helped their brand considerably.

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Solo founders hardly ever changed direction, the data showed, while teams of four or more founders changed too much.

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Coverity's founders, four graduate students from Stanford University and their professor, recently grammar-checked the entire Linux 2.6.9 kernel operating system and found a respectably low 950 bugs in 5.5 million lines.

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TARA's founders, raves about a recent find in the Tassili n'Ajjer range: an anatomically perfect four-metre-long carving of a hippo hunted by an Egyptian-looking figure with a superbly sinuous bow.

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