"He had to keep the troops' spirits up, he had to keep the wolves at bay, he had a board to deal with, he had a founder to keep happy, he had to deal with wild swings in the stock market," Franklin Thomas, a CBS director, said in an interview with Ken Auletta for his book "Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way" (Random House, 1991).
Now there may be a new founder to keep an eye on.
By taking options or warrants for value-added services, investors and advisors in essence negotiate the "right price" for themselves while enabling the founder to keep the higher valuation they wanted for everyone else.
Russian telecoms companies already attract generous valuations and Telenor has got its stake cheaply, in return for allowing the founders to keep a controlling share.
But bootstrapping, or self-financing, did allow the founders to keep a large percentage of the company's equity and to avoid the distortion that can come from having money and the demanding investors who supply it.
Mr. Goldman says that some of the company's crucial survival moments were easier to illustrate than to explain in print, like the warrants that Mr. Nalebuff designed to attract investors, but that allowed the co-founders to keep control of the company, a financial arrangement Mr. Goldman concedes, in one book panel, that he did not then understand.
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Zooming out further, Chekanov explains the genesis of Hippflow and the problem it's setting out to solve came from his early experience of the pressure placed on founders to keep stakeholders updated.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder, also admires Dorsey's company: "The hardest thing as a founder is to keep your . . .
Dressed in a gray suit, the acquisition-hungry Oracle founder tried to keep up the humorous beat but mostly rambled and missed.
It stars Denzel Washington as Detective Keith Frazier, the NYPD's hostage negotiator; Clive Owen as Dalton Russell, the mastermind who orchestrates the heist; and Jodie Foster as Madeleine White, a Manhattan power broker who becomes involved at the request of the bank's founder, Arthur Case Christopher Plummerr), to keep something in his own personal safe deposit box protected from the robbers.
