"I think it is absolutely imperative to go straight to the top," said John Prendergast, a former Clinton administration official who co-founded Enough, a group that seeks to end genocide.
AT THE peak of the internet bubble in early 2000, a collection of utilities, oil companies and investment banks founded, appropriately enough, an internet trading market, IntercontinentalExchange.
He was able to separate his ego from the company he had founded long enough to go do something else and enjoy it.
Prendergast worked in the Clinton administration on Africa policy, and co-founded "The Enough Project," which works to expose war crimes.
Sociometry was invented in the early 20th century by Moreno, who also, remarkably enough, founded group psychotherapy and psychodrama.
Though she didn't work at the company her husband, Ivan, had founded, she knew enough about the family business to be intrigued.
Mr. Loftin, who is retired from the company he founded, B.T.I., is wealthy enough to be the owner of an arena football team, the Carolina Cobras.
Some wondered whether the two young former White House aides who founded American Priorities USA, Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney, had enough standing to convince major donors to contribute millions of dollars.
They'd love to sign up the grocery delivery company Peapod, which oddly enough was founded by two of my cousins (and is now owned by Stop & Shop).
A former Iowa State Legislator, Ed founded the March, raising enough funds to get it going.
