He had raised an additional $11 million to finance his venture, eHatchery, which helps companies start up in exchange for a sizable ownership stake.
Research universities like Penn, the California Institute of Technology, Duke, the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia assign their investment rights to it, and hold sizable ownership stakes in the fund.
And companies with sizable employee ownership often produce better results.
The deal, announced Nov. 30, for $150 million and the assumption of $50 million in debt, ended one of the newspaper industry's last sizable employee ownership plans.
However, he lacked the roughly half-million to start his company and was not interested in trading a sizable chuck of his ownership 40-500%) to secure financing from a Sand Hill Road VC.
The net-net is that this provision has been particularly challenging for startups, which often trigger this limiting condition, given they frequently operate in the red through growth stages and often see frequent, sizable changes in their ownership structure due to fundraising, public offerings and acquisitions.
Restore Our Future has also taken sizable contributions from other corporate entities whose business, structure and ownership is not immediately evident.
The majority of companies, banks, and real estate have been privatized, although the state still holds sizable stakes in a few large enterprises, including 99.8% ownership of the Latvian national airline.
Fred's fortune, based on his ownership of middle-income properties, wasn't glamorous, but it was sizable: in 2003, a few years after Fred died, Trump and his siblings reportedly sold some of their father's real-estate holdings for half a billion dollars.
Richard Wagner, the president of Strategic Compensation Research Associates, explains: "Investors want to see [that the boss has] a sizable stake in the company–not just options, which are really no risk, but ownership of shares".
Ping An Insurance, a major Fortis shareholder, may be reluctant to see BNP Paribas get a sizable chunk of Fortis's soundest businesses, while its own holding is reduced to ownership in Fortis's most troubled assets.
