CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

When mobile phone company Danger Inc was created in the heady days of 2000 with execs from Apple, Phillips, and WebTV, it looked like a leadership dream team. Date: November 30, 2006. Date: February 6, 2006. In 2006, it was the most-visited website in the US, even beating out Google. Date: April 15, 2008. Price: $500M.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H.

Omaha 78

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

As the company’s war chest dwindled toward the end of 2018, it could not secure extra capital to continue financing operation — largely because investors had tired on the structural and competitive problems outlined above. Founded: 2006. The company expanded too aggressively in its early years. Declared Bankruptcy: 2016.

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