That all changed when he forced a deep-pocketed and willing-to-use-it consortium -- Satish Sanan of Padua Stables in Florida; John Magnier of Coolmore Stud in Ireland; and Michael Tabor, a former betting shop owner in England -- out of the bidding for Fusaichi Pegasus.
Ultimately, though, we're still working on answering that broader question: "Is it worth it?" PeopleSeq Consortium participants weren't keeping their sequencing results to themselves - quite the opposite.
One character, Zobrist, is a wealthy Malthusian with a powerful, secretive, high-tech army at his command (Mr. Brown says it is real, but he has given it "the Consortium" as a fake name) and a doomsday plot to implement.
Emirates has ordered a total of 110 planes from Airbus, making it the consortium's largest Middle East-based customer.
Although either party denied it, the consortium is believed to be headed by Baidu, the largest search engine company in China.
It raised another $14.5 billion of it from a consortium of investors, including its former Chief Executive Sanford I. Weill.
If the latter looks familiar, it's because it's a consortium of the CBC, Standard Radio and Mel Karmazin Mel Karmazin 's U.S.-based Sirius Satellite Radio.
In the early 1970s, unable to run Reason effectively, Mr. Friedlander sold it to a consortium of its writers.
If it were an ordinary company (rather than a consortium), it could drive costs down much more.
For large consortia, whilst it is desirable to incentivise individuals, it is also prudent to release assets only when it benefits the consortium.
It seems a consortium of private equity investors misses those heady days so much that it replayed a nifty financial move last week that feels very 2007.
