The record we have for fastest-to-a-billion (cash or illiquid equity) is Jay Walker of Priceline, who did it in July 1999, within one year of founding Priceline.
The 49-year-old daughter of founding president Sukarno may be one of Indonesia's best-known yet least understood politicians.
But some U.S. cities have names as American as apple pie, channeling the 253 year old founding principals of this country into geographic locations.
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His father, Harvey, is the chairman and CEO and was one of the founding executives of the 45-year-old private company.
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"Every day our viability is questioned, " says Kunze, 39, who joined the San Francisco-based firm in 1998, a year after its founding, following a 13-year tour of duty at Adobe.
The Muslim Brotherhood had been outlawed in Egypt prior to the fall of Hosni Mubarak, and in its 80 year history it has been responsible for the founding of many foreign terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East and Africa named on the U.S. State Department list.
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The first Indian Motorcycle was built in 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts, and bikes went on sale to the public in 1902 a year before the official founding date of Harley-Davidson.
The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
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Last year Bill Ford, a member of the founding family (which still owns 40% of the voting shares), ousted Jacques Nasser as chief executive.
Indeed, the reason that some generals are twitchy is that Mr Sezer has already said as much, in a speech he gave earlier this year to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the founding of the constitutional court.
It was another sorrow for the family in a year that marks the 60th anniversary of their company's founding, following the disappearance in January of the Missonis' eldest child, company CEO Vittorio Missoni.
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During the opening ceremonies for the world competition this year Dean introduced Will.i.am, one of the founding members of the music group, The Black Eyed Peas, who spoke about the importance of technology and getting kids involved to provide the technical leadership required in the future.
The founding Treaty of Rome was signed the very next year, in 1957.
Although he was a founding member of the club, he spent a year on "tilt" thrown off his game by the teasing of other players, he said.
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Jay-Z released an album every year from 1996-2003 before taking a job as president of Def Jam and then founding Roc Nation, a joint venture with Live Nation.
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This larger debate that we will be having and that you will be covering in the coming year about the size and role of government, this debate has been with us since our founding days.
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"I feel satisfied that some of those who committed what we suffered a year ago are going to face what they deserve, " said Ahmed, another founding member of the Ahlawy who believed that the right decision had been made.
Sir Doug's knighthood in the New Year Honours was a recognition not of his distinguished business career (though he was one of the founding fathers of the package holiday industry), but of his services to a wide range of charities.
In its 60-year history, this company has risen to prominence as one of the chief Korean chaebols, and its founding family, the Koos, have got rich.
"We were called the crazies, " recalls JDRF founding member Carol Lurie, jolted into action after the diagnosis of her 10-year-old son. (He's now a parent of a diabetic daughter.) The nonprofit stages a Children's Congress every other year, bringing 150 afflicted kids from around the country to Washington to generate not-so-subtle pressure.
Peugeot, a founding member of the main French stock market index, the Cac-40, was demoted last year as a result of its tumbling share price.
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