And then Nic Polenakis, wildlife guide and part-owner of the Somalisa Bush Camp, did a curious thing.
Outsider Mont Etoile, trained by William Haggas, took the Ribblesdale Stakes for part-owner Lester Piggott.
SunFirst Bank, a failed Utah bank, processed online poker transactions while Campos was its vice-chairman and part-owner.
"Specialization is a law of nature, " says Robert Tibbs, a neurosurgeon and part-owner of the Oklahoma Spine Hospital.
His income as a part-owner exceeded what he got as a playwright (only a few pounds per play).
Ziff is part-owner, could be the most expensive--and the snootiest--private club in America.
He also was a part-owner of a short-lived venture, drkoop.com, to provide consumer health care information via the Internet.
Beckham has moved away from endorsements in recent years with an interest in being a part-owner in his business deals.
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Ferguson is a part-owner of two horses racing in Saturday's Grand National, the jewel in the English jump racing season.
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The 54-year-old lawyer, who prospered in the 1990s from asbestos suits, is a part-owner of the company staging the twice-yearly two-day session.
He owns the Seattle Seahawks (pro football), the Portland Trailblazers (pro basketball) and is a part-owner in the Seattle Sounders FC (pro soccer).
The Financial Times (part-owner of The Economist) and the Wall Street Journal have leading positions in business and financial news, and successful pay-walls.
Their brother George, part-owner of the San Jose Sharks, gave to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, but has not done so this year.
He is in talks with Pearson, a media group (and part-owner of The Economist), about a takeover of Les Echos, which does make money.
In Britain, the pension funds of Shropshire county council, Sainsbury's, a supermarket chain, and Pearson, part-owner of The Economist, are thinking about joining the trend.
The Financial Times (part-owner of The Economist) keeps readers on a meter, by charging those who look at more than ten articles a month online.
The Chicago-born entrepreneur is probably best known as the former owner of Blockbuster Video and current part-owner of the Miami Dolphins, but garbage made him rich.
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Since selling the restaurant (for health reasons) in 1988, he has been the restaurant critic of the Financial Times (owned by Pearson, a part-owner of this newspaper).
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In October 2009, Ivanka married Jared Kushner, a part-owner of the real estate group Kushner Companies (founded by his father, Charles) and the publisher of the New York Observer.
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Many of his journalists are already looking for new employers (such as Vedomosti, a business daily to be launched later this year, whose backers include the Financial Times, part-owner of The Economist).
In a filing to the Philippine Stock Exchange, San Miguel, the part-owner of flag carrier PAL, along with billionaire Lucio Tan, confirmed the joint venture, in which PAL will hold 49%.
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The prince's Kingdom Holding Company, whose shares are traded on the Saudi stock exchange, owns stakes in hotel groups including Four Seasons and Fairmont Raffles and is a part-owner of the Savoy Hotel in London.
Domestic chains such as the 500-store Xi-Shu franchise are taking market share from state-owned Xinhua, while foreign publishers such as Pearson (part-owner of The Economist) and Bertelsmann's Random House are looking for local distribution channels.
True, print is not a growth business, but some newspapers are beating that trend, including the London Financial Times (part-owner of The Economist), which is making a big push in America, albeit from a tiny base.
Michael Jordan's postcareer business moves have been shaky at best: He's part-owner of pro basketball's woeful Washington Wizards, and with Wayne Gretzky and the retired football player John Elway he invested in MVP.com, a celebrity website that went under earlier this year.
He is not just that staple of political novels, the talented son of an artisan, who becomes a socialist and then goes on to turn himself into multi-millionaire, government minister, owner of the New Statesman and (an essential accessory, this, in the laddish culture of New Labour) part-owner of a football club.
Then Cirrus owners raucously debate whether blame goes to a flawed part or a ham-fisted owner.
While the amount of savings can differ greatly for a renter of a micro-unit versus a small-home owner, cost-effectiveness is definitely part of the equation in both models.
Nicolas Puech, a direct descendant of legendary former Hermes leader Emile-Maurice Hermes and part owner of Hermes International, is officially a billionaire.
When the DiMarias ran into some bumper trouble, Schulz introduced himself -- he's part owner of a side business, Fiero Fiberglass.
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