Mr. Kearney was one example of the way in which Klaus Schwab, the founder and organizer of the annual gatherings, has sought to bring some of the street anger that has confronted economic summits in recent years into his exclusive gatherings.
Think of a communications entrepreneur such as Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia - just one example of the levels of success south Asians from the Indian subcontinent and the US are reaching.
The imprimatur from Founders Fund is only one example of how the financial community is beginning to stop worrying and love the weed.
At the beginning of the class period, the instructor introduces the topic of evolution with a warm-up discussion, and then guides the entire class through one example of an evolutionary mechanism: founder effect.
The founder of the Nazariya group, Ruth Chawngthu, told me the recent incident was just one example of an ongoing problem at the college.
One example of an integration Revel CEO and co-founder Lisa Falzone shared with me in an interview is a sales tracker than can automatically push out ads to web-based advertising networks when it detects that sales are slowing, in real-time.
In 1860, for example, one of the founders of a mutual improvement society recalled: "We rented a garret, for which we paid (I think) 25s. a year, bought a few second-hand forms and desks, borrowed a few chairs from the people in the house, bought a shilling's worth of coals, had the gas (which was already in the house) laid on at the cost of a few shillings, and started our College".
Let's pick the example of the founder of Air Deccan [G. R. Gopinath].
For example, Vlad Larin, one of the founders of Zeroqode, shared his Disrupt experience with us.
For example, Rubens Nascimento Melo is one of the founders of the SBBD community who is already retired.
