VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

ARRIS, headquartered in Suwanee, Georgia, USA, specializes in the design, engineering and supply of technology supporting triple- and quad-play broadband services for residential and business customers around the world. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company. ISRAEL CORP UNIT TO BUILD $680 MLN PERU POWER STATION.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

When Polaroid introduced its first instant camera back in 1947, it was a huge success that quickly made the company one of the leaders in the market. Later they failed to keep up with technologies and the digital boom and have even filed for bankruptcy twice. GM was first a holding company when it was established in 1908 by William C.

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Historically, most bricks-and-mortar businesses were named after their founders, and large corporations often have a publicly traded parent company that holds all of the stock in many operating units that have familiar or famous names (e.g., AMR as holding company for American Airlines).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I know companies — strong organizations — centered on these values. In an article titled “Where Lying Was Business as Usual,” Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. Discipline.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

I know companies – strong organizations – centered on these values. In an article titled “Where Lying Was Business as Usual,” Business Week reviewed a book on the Wedtech Scandal, a Washington scandal of the late eighties in which a few government officials fed fat contracts to a dubious supplier. Discipline.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. A second learning for me with Expedia: Expedia was a holding company of a bunch of different operations – Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelscape – and Expedia.com was our biggest problem asset.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 Teva, Israel’s largest company, has a market value of about $56 billion. Ratiopharm, a privately-owned subsidiary of German holding company VEM, was founded in 1973 and has annual sales of about $8.6

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2020

He was successful due to his blunt honesty. I am a huge fan of Charlie Munger, who is the Vice Chairman of the famed holding company Berkshire Hathaway. I follow his principle rigorously: I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines.

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