As one is amongst Silicon Valley's most formidable venture capital firms and the other is China's social media giant, it was clear that Mr Fridriksson was really going somewhere.
With such formidable venture capital partners as Wellesley, Mass.-based Battery Ventures and Waltham, Mass.-based Polaris Venture Partners, the fledgling firm locked in Polaris principal George Conrades (a 30-year veteran of IBM and former chairman and CEO of BBN) as its chairman and CEO.
He also possessed formidable financial capital and closer links with the relevant colonial administrators.
It is worth noting that a central observation in Argentina's relative decline is that it was accompanied by a strong reduction in private investment: from the formidable rates of capital accumulation pre-1913 financed primarily by foreigners to the dismal later performance.
Pompey was already a formidable force in the capital, and he had just completed the Roman reconquest of Spain by crushing a rebellion under Quintus Sertorius.
Older Americans may also be in a better position than younger ones to become self-employed, in part because they are more likely to have the financial resources necessary to overcome a formidable barrier: access to capital.
It is a formidable exporter of aerospace machinery, capital equipment and medical technology.
The National Association of Realtors, with members in every Congressional district, is one of the capital's most formidable lobbies.
Although she was the capital's most formidable opinion maker, Miss Greenfield eschewed becoming a television pundit, something that made her proteges, like George Will and Charles Krauthammer, rich and famous.
On this evidence, Rogers has a central role in a formidable apparatus of authority and capital – the old power of the Lords, the governmental power of quangos and government departments, the money power of property and real estate.
