Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.
If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.
Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
Why do investors seem to care about 'billion dollar exits?' Historically, top venture funds have driven returns from their ownership in just a few companies in a given fund of many companies.
One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.
Valuations are actually quite simple to grasp. A company is only worth what two acquirers are willing to pay for it. Don't you just need to find that one buyer? If there is only one potential company interested in buying your startup, chances are you won't be hearing the word 'billion' in the offer.
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.
Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title.
You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.
One of the things that is for sure unique, we have never seen in this country a billion dollar propaganda industry in full service and in absolute control of an administration in the way that FOX News is.
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.
Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often.
The Cash Money sound pretty much changed the era. It kind of put the business into rap. It was like, 'Get your money, dude. This is a billion dollar business.'
We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist - but did not yet - to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry.
I built a massive company, a great company, some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars.
Investors like to hear that you're in a multi-billion dollar market.
Vince McMahon is an intimidating individual because of the amount of respect he commands because of what he's done for entertainment, turning the business into a billion dollar success story. He rarely sleeps. He's a workaholic. He's passionate. He loves what he does.
Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.
We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.
Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
