Disruptor # 16 Ezetap Meet the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies Spotting the next Facebook: How we picked the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50
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"The President wants a disruptor, he's getting a disruptor," a former administration official said in describing Grenell, one of the US' few ambassadors who identify as gay.
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In addition to serving on the boards of two repeat Disruptor 50 companies, Airbnb and Pinterest, he's also a director of mobile marketplace OfferUp and past Disruptor Instacart.
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Twilio is on the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, and is one of only 8 companies to make the Disruptor 50 list in all four years of the list's existence.
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Following are the top ten 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies: For more information regarding the CNBC Disruptor 73, including the full list, interviews, in-depth analysis and original digital video, visit CNBC.com/Disruptors.
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It has even been labeled a "disruptor" in the industry.
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Eight companies have made the Disruptor list all four years.
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Five companies have made the Disruptor list all six years.
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Bin Salman "is the oil market's ultimate disruptor," Croft said.
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Casper was named to CNBC's Disruptor 50 list in 2019.
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It's already been a record year for Disruptor 50 IPOs.
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"It's a disruptor that's going to blow up," Lowery said.
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It's been named to CNBC's Disruptor 50 list three times.
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The CNBC Disruptor 003 was selected by CNBC and CNBC.
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The geographic diversity of disruptor companies will continue to grow.
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It made CNBC's Disruptor 50 list in 2014 and 2015.
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All references must be sourced to CNBC's Disruptor 50 Roadshow.
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Dropbox was also a CNBC Disruptor 50 company five times.
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SurveyMonkey ranked No. 14 on this year's CNBC's Disruptor List.
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As a female you are a disruptor in this space.
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Both also have CNBC Disruptor 50 companies in their portfolios.
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Greatest results disruptor n Chief President ever Trump Trump Trump.
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Unilever was hot for Dollar Shave Club because it's a disruptor.
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Following are the top ten 2400 CNBC Disruptor 215 companies: 24.
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CLEAR ranked No. 22 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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It was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list last week.
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She's a quiet disruptor, making viewers find their own way in.
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The 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed in May.
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It followed, then, that only a disruptor could stop the corruption.
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He says the company is an innovator and a true disruptor.
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Uber the "disruptor", Uber, the bastion of the neu-tech bro.
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Two Disruptor 503 companies are leading the charge: Coursera and Udacity.
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The Great Disruptor may be the right man for the job.
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The 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed this May.
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Thirty-two of this year's Disruptor companies responded to the survey.
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American Banker called her the "fiercest disruptor in Congress" since Warren.
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The platform has been named to CNBC's Disruptor List five times.
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Following are the top ten 2409 CNBC Disruptor 291 companies: 2400.
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Disruptor 50 data partners PitchBook and IBISWorld provided additional quantitative input.
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Redtea Mobile is another such interesting disruptor in the telco space.
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Rent the Runway was named to CNBC's 2019 Disruptor 50 list.
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It's the kind of thing that rankles the engineer-disruptor mindset.
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CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2020 Disruptor 50 list.
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Since then, Casper has become a disruptor in its own right.
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This was Casper's first year on the annual Disruptor 503 list.
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This was DoorDash's first year on the annual Disruptor 50 list.
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Submit your nomination for the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 by clicking here.
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The company was No. 46 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list in 2017.
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The company is ranked No. 2174 on this year's Disruptor 2000 list.
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The tech disruptor revealed the interview question he always asks prospective employees.
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But outside of Netflix, it's hard to name another successful media disruptor.
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This makes the social media giant another economic disruptor, according to Wolff.
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Ad blocking has become the newest disruptor in the marketing technology industry.
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The analysis views continued tensions here as the market's most likely disruptor.
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Twilio is also the eleventh CNBC Disruptor company overall to go public.
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One, Textio, went on to become a 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 company.
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Arquette has gone from Hollywood's ex-leading lady to an industry disruptor.
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Submit your nomination for the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 by clicking here.
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The firm also ranked No. 9 on CNBC's 2015 Disruptor 50 list.
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"It's a little bit of a disruptor," said one investor, Jon Santemma.
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In the United States, that disruptor could soon be a cable company.
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He will make way for a younger Latina disruptor within progressive politics.
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Additionally, CNBC will have unprecedented access to the number one Disruptor, SpaceX.
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There were some notable outliers in female representation in the Disruptor workplace.
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Goldberg is a member of the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council.
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She approached it slowly, the disruptor bumping off-rhythm on her hip.
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It's tempting to see technology as a great disruptor, and it is.
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Submit your nomination for the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 by clicking here.
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Now, the fintech disruptor is poised to reinvent itself as a bank.
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Casper was named No. 8 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list in 2019.
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At first blush, Aspiration has all the trappings of a successful disruptor.
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He holds an interview with the CEO of CNBC Disruptor honoree GoodRx.
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They wanted a disruptor to be sure, and Trump has been that.
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For more information about CNBC's Disruptor 50 Roadshow, go to: cnbc.com/d50roadshow
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Vision Fund investments into major ride-sharing companies have totaled over $20 billion to date and include heavy stakes in high-ranking Disruptor 50 companies Didi Chuxing, Southeast Asia's Grab, and former six-year Disruptor 50 giant, Uber.
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The creators of the Android device marketed it as a smartphone market disruptor.
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To date, 35 former Disruptor 50 companies have gone on to an IPO.
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The disruptor had to be removed from the stage by organizers and security.
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The company was a true disruptor, changing the way Americans prepared their taxes.
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Most Disruptor 250 companies are on a much faster track to an IPO.
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Since the list began in 2350, 250 Disruptor 50 companies have gone public.
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It is making a second consecutive appearance on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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This year's Disruptor 50 companies have the potential to upend multibillion-dollar industries.
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For more on the interview and Houzz, a 2018 CNBC Disruptor, click here.
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CNBC will host a second Disruptor 50 Roadshow event in Philadelphia in October.
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The technology-driven health insurer was 12th on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor List.
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First, there is the disruptor angle, where Uber faces off against the establishment.
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Finally, there's Quid, which was a newcomer on the 2017 Disruptor 50 list.
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The arrogant tech-world disruptor lane would remain unfilled in this year's campaign.
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Urgent care facilities are already a major disruptor in the health care sector.
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Dropbox started out as a disruptor in the space of efficient cloud storage.
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SurveyMonkey is a four-time CNBC Disruptor, ranking 14th on this year's list.
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We wanted a disruptor in Washington, but we were not successful this time.
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The CNBC Disruptor 50 Roadshow will gather Disruptor 50 company founders, leaders and investors in thriving start-up communities to compare notes, debate and discuss the challenges and opportunities available to entrepreneurs, and share actionable advice with engaged live audiences.
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It is entirely possible that the next disruptor will be none of these things.
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The only way out of this trap is to be your own biggest disruptor.
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For the president-elect, there is a moniker he might relish: the Great Disruptor.
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Ezetap has been named on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2016 and 2017.
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Disruptor Beam has already created games based on Star Trek and Game of Thrones.
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GitHub has been named to CNBC's Disruptor 50 list three years in a row.
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The 2018 Disruptor list has nine female CEOs, up from just three last year.
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"It is a true disruptor and true innovation in money," the elder Miller said.
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But Grenell is cut from the same cloth as the Disruptor-in-Chief himself.
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The CNBC Disruptor 50 was compiled from 750 nominated companies which were ranked using a proprietary blend of quantitative and qualitative inputs, as well as expertise from CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of 34 leading academics in innovation and entrepreneurship.
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I profiled that massive effort in a free, Case Western Reserve University Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called Beyond Silicon Valley, available through the MOOC platform Coursera, No. 42 on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list and a three-time CNBC Disruptor.
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The deadline to submit the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 Nominee Submission Form is Monday, Feb.
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For the first time, CNBC limited the age of Disruptor 50 companies to 15 years.
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The deadline to submit the 9813 CNBC Disruptor 50 Nominee Submission Form is Monday, Feb.
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Putin is pro-Chaos and is an Equal Opportunity Disruptor of the American electoral system.
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The quantitative information was supplemented with data from our three official Disruptor 50 data partners.
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And the companies on CNBC's Disruptor 250 list are bigger and more mature than ever.
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But Shopify is quite an outlier; the track record of Disruptor 50 IPOs is mixed.
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We throw around the word disruptor a lot in the startup world, especially at TechCrunch.
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Still, I was quite impressed by what Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff demonstrated for me.
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When you look at the weddings industry, there's never been a multibillion disruptor to emerge.
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And, 32 of this year's Disruptor 50 companies have valuations of $252 billion or more.
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It also earned it the No. 25 spot on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 503 list.
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SpaceX is the No. 1 company on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, announced Tuesday.
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Since the list was launched in 2013, 41 Chinese investors backed CNBC's Disruptor 50 companies.
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Armstrong was also downbeat on another major disruptor stock, this time in the entertainment industry.
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The deadline to submit the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 Nominee Submission Form is Friday, Feb.
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Javon Kinlaw is a great athlete, and he has been a major disruptor in 2019.
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Dozens of public companies could be crowned the high-growth disruptor of the next decade.
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Rent the Runway was also named No. 5 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list for 2019.
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This environmentally savvy move also fits with Taylor's brand as a progressive, conscientious Wall Street disruptor.
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A new crop of innovative businesses has been chosen for the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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Duolingo, No. 28 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, offers online instruction of High Valyrian.
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A record 266 of this year's Disruptor 2410 companies have valuations of $290 billion or more.
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Light pollution, a well-known disruptor for many nocturnal animals, poses a singular threat for fireflies.
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For more information about Disruptor 50 Roadshow or to register to attend, go to: cnbc.com/D50RoadshowPhilly.
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When it was first named to the Disruptor 50 List in 2013, it was barely known.
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Watch the Great Disruptor enjoin Congress to repeal Medicare, Medicaid, EMTALA, HIPAA, UMRA, and the ACA.
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Fellow Disruptor 50 competitors Lyft, which tripled bookings last year, and Grab are growing as well.
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"I think, to be successful in any business — you have to be a disruptor," he said.
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The deadline to submit the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 Nominee Submission Form is Friday, February 12.
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The New York City-based start-up returned to the CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2017.
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To Rothenberg, the traditional marketers are unprepared for the changes wrought by the disruptor companies, though.
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Amazon is the biggest disruptor in terms of size, but it's not the fastest-growing platform.
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It took six years, but the CNBC Disruptor 229 list is starting to close the gap.
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Fourteen of this year's Disruptor 50 companies reported between 20 percent and 39 percent female employees.
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For more information about Disruptor 50 Roadshow or to register to attend, go to: cnbc.com/D50Roadshow.
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Already we are seeing the trend play out in CNBC's 2018 Disruptor 50 list, released Tuesday.
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Technology is being viewed as the big disruptor that will allow them to achieve those goals.
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Teicher is a disruptor of dance, particularly tap, and Tao is an inventive pianist and composer.
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It has also hired Disruptor Beam team members to create a new studio, Wicked Realm Games.
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But sooner or later there will be a mainstream disruptor, like Tinder was some time ago.
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Again, eligible companies can submit their nominations for the 2020 CNBC Disruptor 50 by clicking here.
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With the Kremlin's expansionist political strategy, Russia has seemingly decided to position itself as a disruptor.
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Apeel, founded in 2012, clocked in at No. 48 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list this year.
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Five-time CNBC Disruptor Dropbox begins trading as a public company after its IPO on Friday.
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WHEN: Wednesday, May 23rd WHERE: CNBC's Disruptor 50 Roadshow event in Los Angeles Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC interview with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and CNBC's Tyler Mathisen and Julia Boorstin Wednesday, May 153rd, at CNBC's Disruptor 50 Roadshow event in Los Angeles.
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SpaceX was named the No. 1 company on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, announced in May.
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You could have learned about all of these start-ups on previous years' CNBC Disruptor 50 lists.
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It's no surprise that Airbnb clinched the No. 2 spot on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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The tech IPO scene has been frozen since, and it may take a Disruptor to unfreeze it.
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"At the end of the day, we don't see Candid as a disruptor, per se," Greenfield said.
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But as is the way in the world of tech, the disruptor has also become the disrupted.
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Thirty-one of this year's Disruptor 50 companies have valuations of $1 billion or more — the unicorns.
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Why else would South Korea's President Moon suggest a Nobel Peace Prize for the disruptor in chief?
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Thirty-three of this year's Disruptor 50 companies have valuations of $1 billion or more — the unicorns.
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After 22 years Engvall said the Fila Disruptor 2 had finally "come into its own" in 2018.
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After all, he campaigned on being a disruptor, and clearly much of the country welcomed that approach.
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Finding ways to fight off Amazon is all well and good, but what about the next disruptor?
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Farfetch's initial public offering is the biggest potential disruptor in the luxury online retail world in years.
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I think the biggest disruptor to all this is the US lifting of the crude export ban.
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And no wonder that, in spite of initial misgivings, the "Disruptor-in-Chief" has turned to him.
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Sanders's supporters have argued for some time that he is the kind of disruptor the nation needs.
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Asia's early disruptor reflects on the lessons and Southeast Asia's potential to create the next big disruption.
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For WeWork, valuation came into play for a company that appeared to be a disruptor but wasn't.
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Meantime, analysts continued to probe the company with questions about Amazon as a disruptor in the space.
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As CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list enters its sixth year, we're taking the project on the road.
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Uber was No. 2 on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor List amid the new CEO's public-image rehabilitation effort.
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He is also a member of the Tribeca Film Festival Disruptor Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The crown prince's political supporters have at times tried to present him as a Silicon Valley-style disruptor.
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The initial fund led to partnerships on Disruptor Beam's Star Trek Timelines and Nukebox Studios' Food Truck Chef.
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Nevertheless, it should come as no surprise to see Uber atop the CNBC Disruptor 2100 list in 250.
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When CNBC editors finished compiling the Disruptor Top 50 list for this year, there was one big surprise.
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The same was said for Square (a Disruptor in 2013 and 2015) when it went public in November.
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Nutanix, a 2015 Disruptor, filed an S-1 in December, and its deal has been on hold since.
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Online lender SoFi, a CNBC Disruptor, approaches the task of ranking business schools like a gimlet-eyed banker.
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"We get labelled as a 'disruptor' quite a lot and we don't like that term," he told Mashable.
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Lyft has been named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 List three times, ranking fifth on the 2018 list.
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Some call Shyp the first disruptor in the shipping space since Federal Express introduced overnight delivery in 1973.
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Airbnb, the online home and apartment rental service, tops CNBC's fifth annual Disruptor 50 list of private companies.
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Ethernet Reaches The Car Having a single network — the Ethernet — in the car will be a big disruptor.
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The company is No. 5463 on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list with a valuation of $46 billion.
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But SoFi, which ranked 45th on CNBC's 2017 Disruptor list, is still a tiny player in that market.
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Instead, Rogers founded Apeel Sciences, a 2018 CNBC Disruptor, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Bill Gates, among others.
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SoFi, which made CNBC's 2019 Disruptor 50 list, got its start in 2011 through refinancing student loans online.
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As a result, Airbnb has positioned itself as a friendlier disruptor and has worked with regulators on policy.
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"Anyone who knows me well knows I am an entrepreneur, creator, rebel and disruptor at heart," she said.
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The company, No. 37 on CNBC's 2019 Disruptor 50 list, is powered by AI, chatbots and behavior economics.
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He founded YellowHeart with The Chainsmokers, along with their manager Adam Alpert, who's also CEO of Disruptor Records.
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All of that might look like a plum opportunity for a certain kind of startup 'disruptor', of course.
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Complaints about tumult from the media and professional politicians just cement his credentials as the disruptor in chief.
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Many of the disruptive companies on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list are in the midst of crucial transformations.
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Ginkgo, which has made the CNBC Disruptor 50 list three times, has tapped Jonathan McIntyre — whose experience includes a stint as the head of research and development for PepsiCo's snack division and head of R&D at another CNBC Disruptor 50 start-up, Indigo Agriculture — as CEO for the new company.
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To vote for this CNBC Disruptor 50 panel on augmented reality at South by Southwest in 2017, click here.
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MARTHA MACCALLUM, HOST: So, the heat is on as the disruptor president takes the show on the road tonight.
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Atlanta (Kabbage), Cincinnati (LISNR) and Pittsburgh (Duolingo) are among the cities with one Disruptor 50 company each this year.
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Twilio, No. 39, on the 2016 CNBC Disruptor list is an example of such a company testing the waters.
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Robinhood has been named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 list for the past two years, ranking 38th in 2018.
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Footwear brand Fila Korea has recently seen a resurgence in their Disruptor 2 sneakers, which first debuted in 1996.
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Clinton is not a radical or a revolutionary, a disruptor or a socialist, and she's proud of that fact.
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Disruptor Beam has raised another $8.5 million to turn some of the best-known entertainment franchises into mobile games.
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That's what we were looking to understand in our survey of CEOs and founders of CNBC's Disruptor 50 companies.
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Two surprise success stories this quarter came from the founder and CEO of two Disruptor 50 companies — Jack Dorsey.
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The U.S., now the world's largest oil producer, is playing the role of disruptor in the global energy market.
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This year several companies on our 215 CNBC Disruptor 50 list felt that pressure to "grow up" quite acutely.
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Life, an industry disruptor in Singapore's telecommunications space, and likely to other countries in Southeast Asia in the future.
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These and other positive growth metrics have earned it a prominent spot in the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 profile.
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Airbnb, for instance, another tech disruptor that plans to go public this year, has been profitable for two years.
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The market is ripe for a disruptor in the kids' space, but there's not enough money in that, apparently.
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Flake was first elected to Congress, he was called by some a "disruptor" for adhering to traditional conservative principles.
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We needed a disruptor in office, somebody who would take the normal conventions and turn them on their head.
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The CNBC Disruptor 50 list identifies 50 private companies whose innovations are transforming the economy and revolutionizing their industries.
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Alternatively, he could select a candidate who shares his "disruptor-in-chief" instincts or hails from the television commentariat.
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Easterly considers Rover a genuine early market disruptor and the pet industry one that was truly ripe for disruption.
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The Disruptor 50 Roadshow brings together executives from CNBC Disruptor 50 companies, along with leading voices in business, to deliver engaging discussions on a range of issues that are top of mind for entrepreneurs and small business owners who are trying to grow their businesses, find investors, and attract and retain top talent.
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Allowing Edgewell to bring that disruptor under control by acquiring Harry's would have represented a big step back for competition.
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Two CNBC Disruptor 50 companies are paving the way for the future of augmented reality (AR) technology – Blippar and DAQRI.
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All that effort warranted near-perfect marks for Mongo and the best scores of any of the Disruptor 50 companies.
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This decision was based on an editorial review of venture-backed companies and of past Disruptor 50 companies and nominees.
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Among the companies on CNBC's 59 Disruptor 50 list, Kleiner is an investor in 15, more than any other firm.
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Together they launched Virta Health in 2400, which earned the No. 2500 spot on the 603 CNBC Disruptor 260 list.
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GoodRx, No. 6 on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list, leverages technology to help find and compare prescription drug prices.
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Earlier this year, Clear was No. 22 on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, which recognizes companies revolutionizing and transforming industries.
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The Disruptor II had a sawtooth sole, and came in different colored suede and leather to keep it on-trend.
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Pinterest has been named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 List six straight years, ranking in the 36th spot for 2018.
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Does your company — or a company you represent or invest in — have what it takes to be a CNBC Disruptor?
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From their point of view, what Trump is doing as disruptor in the West absolutely fits in with Russian aims.
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He is fully embracing his identity as a force of white nationalism and a disruptor of allegedly corrupt Western institutions.
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They get away with it because they are a fresh, innovative disruptor — but this only buys them so much runway.
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This is according to CNBC's annual survey of CNBC's Disruptor 250 companies, conducted from April 240 to May 240, 2178.
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Across all the 981 start-ups put forward as Disruptor nominees, 15 percent reported less than 20 percent female employees.
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Lack of diversity poses a real financial risk, according to the Disruptor 50 CEOs that responded to our annual survey.
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"Cannabis is a huge disruptor to the opioid guys," Linton told "Mad Money " host Jim Cramer in an exclusive interview.
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We asked Hub Group CEO and Chairman Dave Yeager how his company was responding to the biggest disruptor in trucking.
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So it's not surprising all four of these companies are in the top 2000 in this year's Disruptor 50 list.
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Token sales, better known as ICOs, are the biggest disruptor in the technology world this year — perhaps even this decade.
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Game developer Disruptor Beam has already adapted Game of Thrones and Star Trek to the world of smartphones and tablets.
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He self-identifies as an entrepreneur, leader, and disruptor, known for his ability to structure, re-structure, and build companies.
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Founded in 2014, the dentistry disruptor sells teeth aligners directly to consumers and in its "SmileShops," competing with Align Technology.
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This follows Disruptor Beam's shuttering of its other titles, Game of Thrones Ascent and The Walking Dead: March to War.
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Moving forward, the company says it will be focused on its Disruptor Engine tools for mobile game development and operations.
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CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 22020 CNBC Disruptor 250, our annual list of private companies changing the world.
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Before going public in 2019, Lyft was a three-time Disruptor 50 company, most recently ranking No. 5 in 2018.
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In short, Trump was elected to be the ultimate disruptor and to play that disruptive role as much as possible.
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You believe that this is a true disruptor, and these folks seem to be willing to hold it through anything.
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" Suchet watches another would-be disruptor of the burial services industry pitching his company, Halolife, state "It's a $20bn industry.
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And the big disruptor, he predicted, could be a tech giant like Google, Microsoft or Amazon directly entering the fray.
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Hardly. Those words have become a sort of mantra from Pat Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Foods, the Redwood City, California-based company behind Brown's brainchild, the plant-based Impossible Burger, and No. 123 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list (the company first landed a spot on the Disruptor 50 list in 2015).
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With Nielson alone doing more than $1.5 billion in revenue per quarter, there's plenty to be optimistic about as the disruptor.
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Does your company or a company you represent or invest in have what it takes to be called a CNBC Disruptor?
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Oxybenzone is, in fact, a "known hormone disruptor" if you eat crazy-large amounts of it, and are also a rat.
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CNBC has announced its call for nominations for this year's Disruptor 50 list — click here for details and to submit nominations.
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Here's a look at the guidelines for the Disruptor 50 list and the track record of past companies on the list.
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Arthur Brooks, president of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, first met Powell and became friends through his social disruptor speech series.
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And unlike Netflix, they'll be giving people a reason to leave their homes for once, something almost no disruptor is doing.
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Here's a look at the 12 CNBC Disruptor companies that received scores of "100" on patent protection — and high marks overall.
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A four-year-old start-up called Indigo Ag is the No. 1 company on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 13 list.
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Any company that has been named to any CNBC Disruptor 50 list is also not eligible for the 2019 Upstart 100.
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Watch us on the web: If you're an arm-chair Disruptor, you can watch the conference action from the TechCrunch homepage.
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This decision is based on an editorial review of venture-backed public companies and past Disruptor 215 companies and nominee companies.
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It is highly fragmented," said Martin Tirado, CEO of the Snow and Ice Management Association, who calls the app a "disruptor.
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"Streaming is going to be a major disruptor of consumption of content," said Sanjay Raina, general manager at Fox Networks Group.
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MongoDB -- whose competitors include IBM, Microsoft and Oracle -- has appeared on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list four times, most recently in 2017.
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And one day after CNBC revealed its 2016 Disruptor 50 list, the company announced an additional $100M Series C funding round.
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It moved up in this year's Disruptor list to No. 2 (from No. 27 last year) and outranks No. 19 Uber.
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"That hasn't changed but they are looking for a disruptor because of voter dissatisfaction with the Liberal Party," Leyonhjelm told Reuters.
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Confirmed speakers for Disruptor 50 Roadshow in Los Angeles include: Sponsors for the event include Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs and NetJets.
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This year, the company made CNBC's 2018 Disruptor 50 list of start-ups that are changing traditional ways of doing business.
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Ellevest is one of nine companies on this year's Disruptor 50 list with female CEOs, compared with only three in 2017.
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Another 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 company, Flirtey, was also included in winning proposals, including one in Reno, Nevada, to deliver defibrillators.
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Prior to the address, Thrun spoke to Business Insider about the formative moments that have informed his career as a disruptor.
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It ranks second in the 2800 CNBC Disruptor 2222 list released Tuesday, with a valuation of $25 billion, according to PitchBook.
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For more on why Perry's company is a CNBC Disruptor for 2018 and how it's changing the farming space, click here.
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The revolution is not in the Late Night host's jokes or performance, but courtesy of stand-up comedy's ongoing disruptor: Netflix.
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The two have "complementary" assets, and may very well learn to take advantage of those instead of taking the disruptor vs.
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Viewing technology as disruptor and public policy as regulator is such a trope that the concept has seeped into pop culture.
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"SpaceX has been a disruptor of the long-time status quo of the commercial space industry," Iridium chief Matt Desch said.
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The bill's withdrawal is seen as a positive because protest escalation was seen as a potential disruptor to the global economy.
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That's still a sustainable business, but then it provides a platform by which we can, if you like, be the disruptor.
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Uncertainty is the 'greatest disruptor' Trump has backed off tariffs at the last minute, most notably earlier this year with Mexico.
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Ranking just behind Airbnb at No. 250 on the 22019 Disruptor 210 list is bed-in-a-box start-up Casper.
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Robinhood has been named to the Disruptor 50 list for the past three years, most recently ranking No. 47 in 2019.
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GitHub, which raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation in 2015, is No. 22 on CNBC's 2017 Disruptor 50 list.
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Coinbase, which ranked 10 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list, became the poster child of the crypto industry as bitcoin skyrocketed in 2017.
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Over the past century, the automobile turned out to be the ultimate disruptor to human's lives and our civic way of life.
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One of the key leaders of mobile esports growth is Skillz, which ranked No. 211 on the 22025 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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This year's Disruptor 003 companies have the potential to upend multibillion-dollar industries from food and agriculture to health care and retail.
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SoFi, the online lender that ranks No. 26 on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list, launched in 2011 to refinance student loans.
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It has to mean something when three of the top five companies on the 20183 Disruptor 50 list are ride-hailing companies.
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SpaceX — which is making its sixth appearance on the CNBC Disruptor list — is also sending cargo missions to the International Space Station.
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It also earned the company the top spot in CNBC's Disruptor 50 rankings in 2014 and the No. 2 position last year.
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The 2016 Disruptor 250 companies have collectively raised $234 billion in venture capital, giving them a combined implied valuation of $2386 billion.
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Instead of playing the role of an aggressive disruptor, Artsy has positioned itself as a tech platform that can expand galleries' reach.
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"I'd say the success of the Laver Cup has been seen as somewhat of a 'disruptor' to the men's game," he said.
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Why it matters: Kilar is seen as a disruptor to traditional media and has first-hand knowledge of scaling digital video businesses.
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But for a company that's heralded itself as such an industry disruptor, its latest move takes a surprisingly old-school retail track.
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The race to grab market share from today's public giants and attain the coveted title "CNBC Disruptor" has never been more competitive.
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One-third of that value was raised by Snap, a three-time former CNBC Disruptor and the biggest tech IPO since Facebook.
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Skillz, the mobile eSports tech disruptor that has largely set its sites on casual gamers, is targeting an even more enthusiastic audience.
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MongoDb, which derives its name from 'giant,' has been a CNBC Disruptor 50 Company four times, landing at number 27 this year.
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It's well-established that disruptor brands like mattress maker Casper and hair-loss product company Hims are upending these marketing giants' practices.
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This one-time personal shopper and millennial is a disruptor in every sense of the word with her Dallas-based company, RewardStyle.
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From all appearances, Trump's apparent recalibration from disruptor President to polite President -- avoiding the pitfalls he fell into in Europe -- was working.
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"The hypothesis would be that disruptor brands would name the big incumbent brands as their competitors, but it&aposs Amazon," said Rothenberg.
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Amazon obviously is, and yet invariably ETFs own more of the traditional players than the disruptor as a percentage of market cap.
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Congressman Gaetz argues Trump is a disruptor who thrives on defying political expectations, and this makes him potentially amenable to climate action.
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With Disruptor Beam's newest mobile game, Star Trek Timelines, players take on all generations of Trek characters to find a temporal anomaly.
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LISNR was chosen as a CNBC Disruptor 50 company in 2019 and has made the list of disruptive start-ups multiple times.
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Biden is widely viewed as the safe, establishment pick who will bring order back to Washington; Sanders is running as a disruptor.
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The call for nominations for CNBC's 2018 Disruptor 50 list is under way: Find details and the nomination form at Disruptor50.cnbc.com.
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Fanatics was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list earlier this year, moving up to the 25th spot from 45th in 2018.
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We also produce several of CNBC's biggest annual editorial brands, including the CNBC Disruptor 50 list and CNBC's Top States for Business.
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The CNBC Disruptor 50 List is all about identifying companies turning breakthrough technology into sustainable business models, built for the long-term.
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"It is a disruptor," Arthur Caplan, director of medical ethics at the New York University School of Medicine, said of the deal.
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But in much the same way these visionaries on the Disruptor 50 list continuously press on, it's time for CNBC to look ahead.
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And for the first time in the seven-year history of the Disruptor list, the majority of the companies come from outside California.
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This year marks the fourth year of the CNBC Disruptor 50, and in that short history a lot has changed for these companies.
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Maybe that's why the ride-hailing giant leaped to No. 20193 on this year's CNBC Disruptor list, up from No. 19 last year.
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But our approach to selecting the Disruptor 50 focuses on the ideas and the execution behind the big numbers, not just the numbers.
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This year marks the sixth year of the CNBC Disruptor 50, and in that short history a lot has changed for these companies.
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The company's innovative technology and potential to shake up the biofuels space earned LanzaTech the No. 15 spot on CNBC's 2019 Disruptor list.
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Disruption means a lot less when the disruptor loses its shiniest jewels—and especially when those jewels wind up in a competitor's glove.
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More than 21 companies submitted the CNBC Disruptor 235 nomination form back in January — more than double the number of nominees from 22016.
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A few others haven't been as successful in the long run, as seven companies from Disruptor 50 lists past are now shut down.
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The firm's comments came in a feature on Bezos' space business Blue Origin, the latest in Morgan Stanley's series on "space disruptor" companies.
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Didi Chuxing is also a notable Disruptor 50 company, breaking the top 10 at No. 4 in 2018 and No. 2 in 2019.
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Fila's sales increased 205% between 2017 and 2018, and the Disruptor 2 was named "Shoe of the Year" in 2018 by Footwear News.
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CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50, our annual list of private companies transforming the economy and altering industry.
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The deal by Amazon, a proven retail disruptor, marked a major step by the internet retailer into the brick-and-mortar retail sector.
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The No. 1 company on the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 list has reportedly said it can reach $3 billion in profit by 2020.
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The innovative, disruptor approach has its unique advantages in that companies can create their own category, and, therefore, are faced with less competition.
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I am thrilled to help Compass grow its technology platform as it continues to be a leading disruptor in the real estate industry.
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LISNR, which ranked No. 41 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, has partnerships with more than 100 other companies in various industries.
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This is the belief that Trump is something different entirely than we have seen before — the "Disruptor in Chief," according to one article.
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" Do you awake in the morning wondering how you will achieve "synergies," be a "disruptor" or position your boss as a "thought leader?
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Since it's an endocrine disruptor, EE2 can interfere with reproductive hormones and development if consumed in excess or by vulnerable individuals like infants.
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Airbnb is one of a handful of companies that has made CNBC's Disruptor 240 List every year since the ranking began in 22017.
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"This is just my tenderness/My wretchedness/I'm a pessimist," he mutters—and also, as he's mentioned before, a poltergeist: an invisible disruptor.
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CNBC is now accepting nominations for the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50, our annual list of private companies transforming the economy and altering industry.
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It's the first company from the 2019 list to IPO, and the 40th IPO in the seven-year history of the Disruptor 50.
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Additionally, Didi has been named to the Disruptor 50 list twice, ranking high at No. 4 in 2018 and No. 2 in 2019.
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Kabbage, a financial services data and technology platform providing automated funding to small businesses, and a CNBC Disruptor in 2016, is based here.
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Half-Day Event Featuring Disruptor 50 Companies to Be Held on May 23rd in Los Angeles Keynote Interview with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti This new half-day event will gather Disruptor 50 company founders, leaders and investors in thriving start-up communities to discuss the challenges and opportunities available to entrepreneurs and share actionable advice with engaged live audiences.
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Like, I've spent full days of my life trying to get hundreds of dollars in erroneous charges refunded from a certain lodging industry disruptor.
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Below is the complete history of the CNBC Disruptor 50, with details on every start-up to make the list between 2013 and 2016.
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The tech firm is a disruptor in the payroll industry with more than 23,8003 clients and targets businesses that employ 50 to 5,000 people.
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The tech firm is a disruptor in the payroll industry with more than 23,500 clients and targets businesses that employ 50 to 5,000 people.
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Synack, which ranked No. 42 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, has 150 global customers, including 15 federal agencies in the United States.
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Xiaohongshu For more information regarding the CNBC Disruptor 50, including the full list, interviews, in-depth analysis and original digital video, visit CNBC.com/Disruptors.
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To anyone who follows Silicon Valley, it's an obvious choice as the first company that comes to mind when you think of a disruptor.
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Trump came into office as a "disruptor" and should have expected the volume of requests for internal documents that he's been receiving, Walton said.
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Synthetic data is a major disruptor, as it significantly reduces the cost and speed of development, allowing small, agile teams to compete and win.
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The big picture: Zipcar is the original auto-industry disruptor, giving customers on-demand access to vehicles as a viable alternative to car ownership.
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But neither disruptor is diminishing the amount of copper coming out of the ground, which is what analysts count in their supply-demand forecasts.
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In that way, it's surprisingly different from something like Skyrim or Far Cry 4, where your role in the world is that of disruptor.
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Taking this into account, perhaps it's no surprise that hiring qualified talent is the greatest challenge facing Disruptor 50 founders and CEOs we surveyed.
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The CNBC Disruptor 503 companies have raised nearly $44 billion in venture capital at a combined implied valuation of $239 billion, according to PitchBook.
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She speaks in specifics, not generalities, and her fashion—blue corduroy jacket, turtleneck sweater, and jeans—is more throwback academic than forward-thinking disruptor.
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Uptake, a CNBC Disruptor, launched its service with construction giant Caterpillar and has since serviced other companies like the energy unit of Berkshire Hathaway.
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FedAccounts would introduce another disruptor—the government, which already has the scale and scope to give better terms without needing to profit from customers.
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Is this a successful model for other unicorns on the 5003 CNBC Disruptor 50 list announced Tuesday, like Uber and Airbnb or smaller companies?
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Coinbase For more information regarding the CNBC Disruptor 50, including the full list, interviews, in-depth analysis and original digital video, visit CNBC.com/Disruptors.
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But our approach to selecting the Disruptor 50 focuses on the ideas and the execution behind the big numbers, not just the numbers themselves.
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One of the beneficiaries of the State of Ohio's Third Frontier funds was LISNR, ranked No. 22 on the 2018 CNBC 50 Disruptor list.
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Facebook is not the only tech company to realize that its distribution platform makes it a possible disruptor of the world's lacking financial infrastructure.
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The Takeaway: Somewhere, there are people who think that the president wanting to reenact the plot of Sharknado counts as being a political disruptor.
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The tech industry, which has long styled itself as a disruptor, will need to work hand in hand with government to craft these policies.
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When Facebook revealed Libra in June, the involvement of payments providers was seen as a coup—a pairing of the disruptor and the disruptees.
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But the leadership of the two parties distrust each other, and such a coalition would muddle Mr Kurz's preferred image as a political disruptor.
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LearnLux considers itself a disruptor of the financial services industry, helping millennials learn personal finance skills and connect them to the resources they need.
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CNBC is hosting a new event, bringing together Disruptor 50 founders past and present, along with leaders and investors in thriving start-up communities.
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And in office, he proved to be a true disruptor who validated the establishment's fears that he would upset apple carts and champion reform.
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Oscar Health, which ranks No. 12 on the 2018 Disruptor 50 List, began offering individual health plans in Orlando for the first time this year.
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It's exciting to see PayPal, the daddy of online payments and a true disruptor when it started out, open itself up to these new possibilities.
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These companies didn't crack the top 50 in our Disruptor ranking, but they are original concepts that have raised millions of dollars in venture capital.
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Now Tesla must transition from buzzy disruptor to a company that serves a variety of customers, not just its fans and well-heeled early adopters.
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Gen Z has already been declared "the next big retail disruptor," and consumer goods companies are already getting anxious about whether you'll buy their shampoo.
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There's an emerging disruptor in the beauty industry as companies target a different type of consumer to expand the half a trillion dollar market — men.
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IPO of communications software disruptor Twilio was the first tech deal this year, and amid an environment of increased skepticism for tech deals in general.
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"When I came onto the scene, we were an anomaly and a disruptor just like any of the start-ups that we're backing," Housenbold said.
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With so much going for it, its drop to the 30th position in CNBC's 183 Disruptor 50 rankings may come as something of a surprise.
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If you want a snapshot of the state of the tech bubble in Silicon Valley, take a look at the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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Since the CNBC Disruptor 50 list launched in 2013, 10 companies from the list went public, including Etsy, Twitter, Square, Lending Club and Pure Storage.
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The startup sees itself as the disruptor of Sirius XM, beginning the long journey of building out a library of podcasts, news and talk radio.
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Like any financial services disruptor, the idea here is to offer what the big financial institutions are offering but to do it at less cost.
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Radoff noted that GrandBanks participated in Disruptor Beam's $3.2 million Series A, and the firm has in fact bought out another early investor, Midverse Studios.
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Uber boasts the most impressive financial benchmarks of any company on the 2017 Disruptor 50 list, with investors backing the company with nearly $23 billion.
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Over the long term, the biggest connectivity-related disruptor could be broad deployment of a "driverless" car, which represents the culmination of new sensing technology.
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Tuft & Needle, a mattress industry disruptor, began its operations entirely online and notched 100 million in sales in 2016, said Jeff Wells of Tuft & Needle.
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Wells is the vice president of Amazon Strategy at the mattress disruptor, a position dedicated exclusively to managing the company's approach to selling on Amazon.
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"The risk has increased that AMZN becomes a disruptor to food service distribution models," said JPMorgan analyst John Ivankoe in a research note published Friday.
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The 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list proves just that, with nearly half of this year's list coming from locations outside of California and New York.
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IEX, the newest exchange and lone outlier not owned by the trio of exchange giants, also pitched itself as a disruptor of the status quo.
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates are among existing investors in Convoy, which made the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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But, as is happening now with Uber, the cartel model that the jitneys rose up to combat began to be adopted by the disruptor, too.
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Tilting Point announced this morning that it has acquired Star Trek Timelines, a free-to-play character collection game, from the game's developer Disruptor Beam.
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Last year was a wild year for venture-backed start-ups, and Disruptor 50 companies past and present were in the middle of it all.
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But the Disruptor 50 IPO that wasn't, The We Company (better known as WeWork), may end up having the biggest impact on the 2020 list.
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The companies featured on CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list often threaten the establishment and are on their way to becoming the next generation of giants.
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The Chainsmokers featuring Daya "Don't Let Me Down" (Disruptor/Columbia) If you must pick one dopey 24 dance anthem, let it be this thumper. 25.
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At her peak, Holmes was considered the youngest self-made female billionaire, with her blood testing machine presented as a disruptor for a broken industry.
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There was a time when romantic comedies were so ubiquitous as to be boring, and nowhere near the need of resurrection from an industry disruptor.
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Further, a vision of the President's children as America's equivalence to the Royal Family is at odds with everything Trump's brand as a status quo disruptor.
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Och-Ziff's head of European equities, Adrian Croxson, called budget airline Ryanair a "disruptor" and likes the company's potential to branch further into ancillary travel services.
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CNBC's Disruptor 50 Roadshow brings together founders, leaders and investors to discuss the challenges and opportunities available to entrepreneurs who are looking to accelerate their businesses.
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Waging permanent political war and defying restraints fits Trump's barnstorming character and gels with his key political image as a disruptor of traditional structures and elites.
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When they started operating in the U.S. about five years ago, meal kit companies looked big, disruptor-sized, poised to transform the way people eat entirely.
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It seemed unfair to send them all away without some kind of consolation prize, so for that reason, CNBC presents its list of Disruptor honorable mentions.
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OK, so maybe it's not—like, at all—but this just might be the Italy of tomorrow if disruptor startups like Zume Pizza have their way.
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The effort sounds like a cool idea from a company that snared the top spot for its innovations on CNBC's 2019 Disruptor 50 list in May.
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Amazon, the notorious industry disruptor, in June shut down its 4-year-old Amazon Restaurants project that delivered plates to Prime members in 20 U.S. cities.
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That's a partnership that is really critical because the biggest disruptor in the world today, changing so much of what is happening, is the digital march.
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" Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk told CNBC on Tuesday after being named the No.1 Disruptor in 2017, "We don't have any plans for an IPO.
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Sainsbury's is one of several retailers to have been named as an admirable employer, despite signals that the industry is facing increased pressures from disruptor companies.
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In all, 20173 percent of the companies named to the Disruptor 50 list since 2013 have gone public or been acquired (see the all-time list).
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Read more about the consumer and business trends that stand out in the 2016 list ranking and the methodology used to select this year's Disruptor companies.
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And Square showed its scope as a disruptor: successfully diversifying its revenue streams, with broader geographic reach, and the growth of its banking and loan service.
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His company has positioned itself as a disruptor in an industry that sees an estimated $14 billion in annual turnover, according to data from IBIS World.
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Independent observers acknowledge that Trump's style, divisive though it is, could help him be seen as much more of a disruptor even than these recent predecessors.
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Read more about the consumer and business trends that stand out in the 2017 list ranking and the methodology used to select this year's Disruptor companies.
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For the president, who has been called the great "disruptor" of American politics, the trip is an opening to begin undoing the deplorable U.S.-Saudi relationship.
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Trace leavings of post-Uncanny Valley DoD AR. Samira had Erik's pea coat over her head, under a former cafeteria table, the disruptor in her lap.
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"Investing in women is a good business decision," she told the audience at last week's celebration of the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 List in San Francisco.
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"They have a strong engineering team and have been a big disruptor to our industry for years," Fuller, formerly an engineering manager for Snapchat, told CNBC.
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In fact, 2017 Disruptor 50 companies Blue Apron and MongoDB are already public, and Spotify and Dropbox are expected to go public in the near future.
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The president, as disruptor-in-chief, is casting himself as an anti-hero to the conservative, free market thinking of the past 40 years or so.
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The Fila Disruptor is so big, so bulky, and so ubiquitous that the pendulum is almost certainly going to swing back the other way in 2020.
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In 2018, God-is was named an Ad Age "Woman to Watch" and Adweek "Disruptor" for continuing to fight for representation and equity in the advertising industry.
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"Staffers felt you could have family, you could invest in a city," he added, speaking at the CNBC Disruptor 23 Road Show in Philadelphia on Oct. 8553.
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Below is the complete history of the CNBC Disruptor 50, with details on each of the 167 start-ups to make the list between 2013 and 2018.
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It's a long discussion, but it's a rare in-depth conversation with an entrepreneur who has firmly established himself as a disruptor in more than one industry.
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"Execution really matters," said Matt Glickman, a serial entrepreneur and guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (and member of the Disruptor 50 advisory council).
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Before Alexander McQueen became a brand beloved by the royals and A-list celebrities, its founder, Lee Alexander McQueen, was the most provocative disruptor in the industry.
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Same for the Energy Star program, which rates home appliances for energy efficiency, and the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program, which tests pesticides and environmental contaimants for carcinogens.
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The unicorn stampede of 2019 has resulted in many of the highest-valued Disruptor 50 companies of past years finally making themselves available to the investing public.
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Below is the complete history of the CNBC Disruptor 50, with details on each of the 184 start-ups to make the list between 2013 and 2019.
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Halsey – "Closer" (Disruptor Records/Columbia Records) (Jennifer Kennedy) The Weeknd – "Reminder" (XO/Republic Records) (Red Barbaza) Read These Stories Next:Wait, What's J.Lo Really Saying In "I'm Real"?
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India-based Ezetap and San Francisco-based Stripe, both companies on CNBC's 2016 Disruptor 50 list, facilitate cashless transactions between people, with companies and often across borders.
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This week, as we call for nominations for the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, we're looking at the high-tech trends that will drive disruption across industries.
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The note is the latest in Morgan Stanley's "Space Disruptor Series," which features commentary on 90 companies by Morgan Stanley's "Space Team," which is led by Jonas.
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To get into the CNBC Disruptor 50, companies had to score in the top 10 percent in multiple categories in an initial nominee pool of 838 companies.
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In aggregate, these 50 companies have raised $41 billion in venture capital at an implied Disruptor 50 list market valuation of $242 billion, according to PitchBook data.
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The company, which was founded in 2012 and has been called a spinning disruptor, also has some live classes people can attend in New York and City.
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It is not a startup, or a disruptor, any more: it is a huge corporation -- one of America's 10 biggest companies, with huge power and commensurate revenues.
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Amazon's size and reputation as a disruptor prompted investors to sell shares of companies that might be hurt by the venture when it was announced in January.
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And if that awareness grows, maybe those entrenched powers in business and government will find it harder to stop the next disruptor who comes down the line.
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The founders on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 List have had to balance the disruptive potential of breaking rules with the long slog of sustaining their companies.
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That's still far from closing the gender gap, but the 26 percent of Disruptor companies that have female founders is well ahead of the Silicon Valley average.
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"SpaceX has been a disruptor of the long-time status quo of the commercial space industry," Matt Desch, CEO of satellite company Iridium, told CNBC last June.
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An editorial in the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily condemned what it called the Trump administration's "obsession with playing the disgraceful role of global economic disruptor".
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Finally, Miller and his son, Bill Miller IV, are also big bulls, believing the digital currency whose price has soared this year is bound for disruptor status.
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"Personally, I think the increased tariff is the wrong approach, but uncertainty is the greatest disruptor of all because it makes it hard to plan," Muskat said.
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As we begin accepting nominations for CNBC's eighth annual Disruptor 50 list, we're looking at how this year's batch of companies will reflect the latest tech trends.
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What T-Mobile says: The company has been a disruptor in wireless, ending 9.53-year contracts and other consumer-unfriendly practices and forcing others to follow suit.
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Airbnb is one of only two Disruptor 50 companies that have ranked on the list all seven years of its existence, landing at No. 7 this year.
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Silicon Valley disruptor Tesla has upset the century-old automobile industry, and in April overtook General Motors to become the U.S. carmaker with the largest market capitalization.
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It's raised nearly $100 million in venture capital from Merck Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, among others, according to Crunchbase, and made the CNBC Disruptor List for 2019.
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Disruptor 50 CEOs share how they've navigated their companies' transitions from rebellious startup to disciplined company, without losing sight of their core mission or slowing their growth.
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Home to CNBC Disruptor graduates Snap and Dollar Shave Club, more than $20 billion has flowed into the southern California start-ups since 2010, according to PitchBook.
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The 2019 CNBC Disruptor 2625 list has a first: One of the CEOs, Rent the Runway's Jennifer Hyman, is currently out on parental leave with her second child.
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Halsey – "Closer" (Disruptor Records/Columbia Records) (Jennifer Kennedy) The Weeknd – "Reminder" (XO/Republic Records) (Red Barbaza) The MTV VMAs will air Sunday, August 27 at 8 p.m. EDT.
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Kanye West, the rapper, fashion designer, and self-proclaimed genius, has in recent years become a lightning rod for controversy as he increasingly embraces a new role: disruptor.
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Palantir — the Silicon Valley data analytics company co-founded by PayPal founder and Trump advisor Peter Thiel — has made the CNBC Disruptor 50 list for six years running.
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Palantir, ranking No. 34 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, is expected to build and upgrade an Army intelligence system known as DCGS-A for $800 million.
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Of the 184 companies in the list's seven-year history, SoftBank and its Vision Fund has plowed almost $40 billion into 19 Disruptor 50 companies, according to PitchBook.
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Eight years later, TransferWise ranked No. 23 on CNBC's 2019 Disruptor 50 list and has done so by revising its business model, something many start-ups fail at.
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Disruption at this scale — which moved Airbnb up three spots from No. 5 to No. 2 on the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 list — comes with equally large challenges.
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But as Christian Saller, a partner at HV Holtzbrinck Ventures describes it, there is still a lot of opportunity out there and room for more than one disruptor.
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Meanwhile, for the accountants Roger sells into, Andersen says the startup is helping them stay competitive within a new landscape that is seeing automation becoming a major disruptor.
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Many on the 2015 CNBC Disruptor 50 list have also been on a fundraising tear, raising billions of dollars that in turn has pumped up their companies' valuations.
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Fenty was widely portrayed as a makeup industry disruptor, although other cosmetics brands, including MAC, Bobbi Brown, Makeup Forever, Nars, and Lancôme, had already offered inclusive foundation ranges.
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He added, "We think VA was a price disruptor in the industry, so we think we will see less discounting on those routes," referring to Virgin America's symbol.
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Airbnb has been a major disruptor in the travel and hospitality industry, but the CEO of Hyatt Hotels said the popular app has only made his business stronger.
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It's no wonder, then, that the No. 2 most valuable private company in the United States, behind Uber, ranks third on the 2018 Disruptor 50 list, announced Tuesday.
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At the Iconic Tour in Los Angeles, Venz Box gave a glance into how the monetization platform for content creators grew into the retail disruptor it is today.
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The Mink Pen is the latest development by Harvard Alum Grace Choi, the beauty industry disruptor who introduced a 3-D printer that spits out makeup in 2014.
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"In Canada, what's happening is the disruptor happens when a real product hits the market in a really structured way and people can make lawful choices," he continued.
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The newly relaunched Google Glass, for example, is no longer trying to be the next-generation computing device and industry disruptor that it was initially thought to be.
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Tech-centric Oscar Health, which started in 2012 and was No. 543 in CNBC's 2018 Disruptor 50, has been slowly expanding offerings compliant with the Affordable Care Act.
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But its fate doesn't have to be hollow — even if the cast doesn't earn the accolades they deserve, perhaps Parasite can be the disruptor the film industry needs.
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It's also home to a large start-up community, including major companies like YouTube, Facebook and Netflix, as well as CNBC Disruptor graduates Snap and Dollar Shave Club.
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Ultimately, as a self-styled disruptor, he may realize that it's simply impossible to honor the historical expectations and conventions of his job while being true to himself.
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The company has raised about $100 million in funding from Disney, Google's venture arm GV and Redpoint Ventures, among others, and made the CNBC Disruptor List for 2017.
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There's also the Nerf N-Strike Elite Disruptor that's going for the low price of $7.71, while Playskool's Heroes Marvel Superhero mech armor Black Panther is priced at $8.14.
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Speaking to Forbes last year, Target's executive vice president and chief merchandising officer Mark Tritton said that the "disruptor" brand had been designed and developed internally at the retailer.
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One of his firm's China portfolio companies is 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 company Xiaohongshu (translated to English, it means Little Red Book), which blends mobile commerce into social sharing.
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CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of 66 leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, weighted the quantitative criteria and provided additional analysis of qualitative information.
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Now Zipline, which ranked No. 703 on the 270 CNBC Disruptor 22018 list, has raised $2120 million in venture funding and attained a $1.2 billion valuation from its investors.
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The company, which is a CNBC 2016 Disruptor 50, has also gotten grants from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Small Business Innovation Research program.
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Lyft's development of proprietary technology, its high driver satisfaction ratings and its reported path to profitability helped push it ahead of Uber on the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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There's more than one way to be a disruptor, and Roma — and the attention paid to it by the Oscars — proves that, whether or not it wins Best Picture.
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In fact, three of this year's Disruptor 50 companies, and five now-public former Disruptors, appeared on LinkedIn's 2018 List of 50 Top Companies where professionals want to work.
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The clash of the Silicon Valley technology disruptor and the old, slow-moving industry has been raging for years and only intensifies as Airbnb gets bigger and more influential.
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In aggregate, these 50 companies have raised nearly $44 billion in venture capital at an implied Disruptor 50 list market valuation of about $239 billion, according to PitchBook data.
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CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, a group of 52 leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, weighted the quantitative criteria and provided additional analysis of qualitative information.
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Categories now accepting nominations are: Asia Business Leader of the Year; Asia Disruptor of the Year; Asia Talent Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and China Business Leader of the Year.
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"It's in the operating principles for how we run our business," said the co-founder and CEO of Convoy, which was named to the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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Had Facebook not waited until its name had been dragged through the mud by way of its numerous privacy scandals, its Facebook Dating product could have been that disruptor.
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Watch the full panel discussion here: Read more about the trends that stand out from the 2019 Disruptor 50 List and the methodology used to select this year's companies.
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The great disruptor, though, is E. coli, personified as a sharp-toothed, shrieking kraken that bursts from the earth's core to grab at fish, its reach swift and deadly.
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" SATYA EASWARAN, PARTNER, TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND TELECOM, KPMG "In budget 2020, technology has been clearly recognised as both a disruptor and enabler of new models of business and lifestyles.
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What drove it to be so harmful was an extreme version of the disruptor mentality — a total lack of accountability and a sense that the laws simply didn't apply.
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Everyone wants to be thought of as a disruptor, from cupcake makers in Brooklyn who reimagine the lowly pastry to app creators in Palo Alto who upend entire industries.
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Many on the 2016 CNBC Disruptor list have also been on a fundraising tear, raising billions of dollars that in turn have pumped up their companies' valuations to the stratosphere.
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You, the trust fund benefactor, the robber baron heir, the second-generation tech disruptor, can be the proud owner of Tiffany & Co.'s new "tin can" for a mere $1,000.
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Trump also proposes eliminating funding for 50 EPA programs including Energy Star ,targeted airshed grants the endocrine disruptor screening programs and infrastructure assistance to Alaska native villages and Mexico border.
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Read MoreThe company that lets you hire, and not share your number Twilio was on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list each of the previous three years, ranking 41st in 2015.
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In aggregate, these 50 companies have raised nearly $78 billion in venture capital at an implied Disruptor 50 list market valuation of more than $350 billion, according to PitchBook data.
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Alphabet's Google has started drone tests in Australia, but their efforts lag far behind Zipline, a reason it earned the No. 25 spot on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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Sometimes Cramer likes to go off the tape to look at privately held companies that could be a disruptor for their industry and lead the way for publicly held companies.
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The company, which is returning to the CNBC Disruptor list after a three-year absence, has raised $225 million in funding, making it the biggest private bitcoin company out there.
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But there's an irony in how Uber, (2016 CNBC Disruptor No.1), plans to get there: It's making a big push into the hundred-plus billion-dollar auto financing market.
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For all the talk we heard of bubbles, down rounds and dead unicorns in the past year, the desire for start-ups to be called a Disruptor has only grown.
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And while DVDs eventually appeared, greatly improving quality, it turned out that the idea of cloud-accessible karaoke proved the real disruptor in the country that first created the concept.
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"Not everybody is a well-capitalized automotive manufacturer with risk assessment built in, and not every company is a sophisticated ride-sharing company or mass innovator and disruptor," Strickland said.
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In the fourth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies in 15 industries — from aerospace to financial services to cybersecurity to retail — whose innovations are revolutionizing the business landscape.
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Most Americans think that only venture capitalists and wealthy businesspeople can buy into unicorn companies like SpaceX, Uber and Airbnb, many of which are on CNBC's 383 Disruptor 238 list.
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While he has earned a reputation for dogged intensity, a high basketball IQ, and a deep understanding of the NBA, Rondo is also known as a nuisance and a disruptor.
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The start-up raised money last year at a valuation of $3.6 billion from investors including Fifth Third Bancorp and was No. 17 on the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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Amazon has been an unparalleled disruptor for the retail industry, and the fact it is now turning its focus to groceries has sent a chill through a whole new category.
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Rent the Runway may be a private company, but co-founder and CEO Jennifer Hyman told CNBC that people could benefit from viewing her retail disruptor like they view stocks.
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Fourteen of this year's Disruptor 50 companies, including Airbnb, Uber, Ellevest, Lyft, LanzaTech and WeWork, have financial backing from Chinese investors, such as Didi Chuxing and China Broadband Capital Partners.
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The company, ranked No. 37 on CNBC's sixth annual Disruptor 50 list, makes a line of panties that look like regular underwear but can replace or reinforce traditional period products.
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By conventional measures, Tesla is a small concern, but investors are placing their bets that it is a disruptor, a concept that has near-magical qualities in some business circles.
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The company landed at the No. 10 spot on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, and reportedly valued itself at about $8 billion when it set out to buy Earn.
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Indigo Ag, a Boston-based tech company that was recently named the No. 23 tech disruptor of 22 by CNBC, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital.
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Retail competition is at the forefront of Wall Street yet again as retailers release their earnings reports, and Cramer is seeing a divide form around the industry's most powerful disruptor.
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Last year 50 private companies, with a combined net worth of $241 billion, made our CNBC Disruptor 7503 list by reimagining an array of industries — from aerospace to pharmaceuticals to finance.
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In an age where the word "disruptor" is thrown around ad nauseam, it's easy to forget that the pioneers of shaking shit up existed before the word "buzzword" was even invented.
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We wouldn't be surprised if a few of them make you ask, "Why didn't somebody think of it before?" and show up on a CNBC Disruptor 20143 list in the future.
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The New York City–based company, No. 17 on the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 4.73 list, has raised $738.9 million in venture capital at a valuation of $2.7 billion, according to PitchBook.
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In the sixth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies — from biotech and machine learning to transportation and retail and even exploring outer space — whose innovations are changing the world.
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Casper, through its direct-to-consumer model, may be a disruptor but it's operating in a competitive industry alongside the likes of Tempur Sealy, Sleep Number and Purple Innovations, Cramer said.
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At least 52 of the 750 companies nominated for this year's Disruptor 50 list have valuations of $1 billion or more, but only 35 of these unicorns made the final list.
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He certainly turned the system on its head, and since it's agreed on both sides of the aisle that Washington is broken, I can see why a disruptor candidate could appeal.
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Textio, which ranked No. 16 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, is one of a growing number of start-ups that are using artificial intelligence to augment or automate writing.
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Leading the brand's revival is Fila's Disruptor 2 — an updated version of the original sawtooth sneaker released in 1996 — which was named "Shoe of the Year" in 2018 by Footwear News.
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It was Amazon's first major brick-and-mortar acquisition in the sector and already-struggling retailers were hit hard by the prospect of having a well-known disruptor as a competitor.
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Eleven start-ups worth more than $1 billion from the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 are on the IPO watch shortlist — at a time when the public-offering market is heating up.
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A month before, the No. 22017 company on the 212 CNBC Disruptor 22015 list Airbnb raised $22013 billion in a private financing round that gave it a valuation of $22015 billion.
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Last year, 50 companies with a combined worth of $200 billion made our CNBC Disruptor 50 list by reimagining a wide array of industries — from cybersecurity to food to financial services.
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"Younger Americans, millennials, are our customers," said Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood, which they launched in 2013 and is the No. 43 start-up on the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 13 list.
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So while some Disruptor 50 companies may have their pick of the best candidates, tech firms in general have increasingly more open positions, with increasingly fewer people available to fill them.
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Another Musk company, SpaceX, was No. 1 on the recently revealed 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 List based on its progress in reusable rocket technology and plan to take humans to Mars.
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In the fifth annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies in a range of industries — from biotech and machine learning to transportation and retail — whose innovations are changing the world.
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The absence of that gesture was symbolic of the gap that separates Trump, who regales in his role as disruptor-in-chief, and Merkel, who embodies the established liberal international order.
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The San Francisco-based company, which landed at the No. 10 spot on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, is also overhauling its flagship trading platform GDAX designed for professional investors.
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Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the violent disruptor, but to make life more comfortable for the African-American parent trying to raise their kids in peace.
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In contrast, one of the lowest-valued companies on last year's Disruptor 50 list, Progyny, with a $123 million market cap, pre-IPO, raised just $93 million before it went public.
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Additionally, the labor unions choose to share "alternative facts" with their members in hopes of keeping them tethered to the old guard instead of seeking career opportunities with an industry disruptor.
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Retail competition is at the forefront of Wall Street yet again as retailers release their earnings reports, and Jim Cramer is seeing a divide form around the industry's most powerful disruptor.
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The companies on Disruptor 50 lists past and present have had a lot to learn, and now they have a lot to teach to the next generation of innovative start-ups.
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Half-Day Event Featuring Disruptor 003 Companies to Be Held on October 24th in Philadelphia One-on-One Interviews with Kevin O'Leary and Michael Rubin This half-day event will bring together executives from CNBC Disruptor 50 companies, along with leading voices in business, to deliver engaging discussions on a range of issues that are top of mind for entrepreneurs and small business owners who are trying to grow their businesses, find investors, and attract and retain top talent.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's health and safety regulator has decided to ban a widely used crop fungicide after classifying it as a so-called endocrine disruptor posing risks for humans and the environment.
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But Ellevest, which is No. 45 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, is growing faster than the online advice industry as a whole, based on data and analysis from Backend Benchmarking.
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For a snapshot of the trend, one only has to look at the CNBC Disruptor 50 list, a ranking of the world's most innovative private companies creating paradigm shifts in their industries.
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All that despite three of the most valuable companies from previous Disruptor 50 lists – Uber, Pinterest, and Lyft – going public earlier this year and thus becoming ineligible to make the list again.
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The New York-based company, No. 5 on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, recently hit unicorn status, reaching a valuation of $1 billion after its most recent fund raise in March.
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Of course, a hedge fund can't follow the nearly 500 million tweets per day that gets posted on Twitter, but Dataminr (CNBC Disruptor No. 43), a New York-based technology company, can.
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And it may be some time before TPG cashes in on its investments in these Disruptor 50 companies, but when it does, Trujillo said he's optimistic the fund's patience will pay off.
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If there were a prize for the company that could best lay claim to the term "disruptor", Boston Dynamics would definitely make the shortlist, if not win the whole thing hands down.
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The O.G. mattress disruptor, it now boasts a range of products that includes everything from pillows to a "dog mattress," 15 retail concept shops in the U.S., and a magazine called Woolly.
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A total of 38 of the 184 companies named to the CNBC Disruptor 50 List over the past seven years have made it to IPO day, 36 of which remain public today.
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Reading John Podesta's emails may seem boring at first, but when you realize you can do it on the go, Wikileaks looks less like Putin's puppet and more like a tech disruptor.
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Harley-Davidson's EV foray could also create the spark that pushes the gas motorcycle industry toward electric — which would make HD a case of the almost disrupted transportation company becoming the disruptor.
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Besides launching new games and continuing to develop existing titles, Radoff plans to use the funding to build out Disruptor Beam's publishing platform, which covers things like marketing, customer acquisition and support.
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As CNBC begins the process of selecting the 2016 Disruptor 50, many of the most well-funded Internet of Things' start-ups tackle issues related to infrastructure, cloud platforms and consumer wearables.
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O. It was Amazon's first major brick-and-mortar acquisition in the sector and already struggling retailers were hit hard by the prospect of having a well-known disruptor as a competitor.
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At Lyft, by contrast, Green has been more of a cooperator than a bull-in-a-china-shop disruptor, working with authorities rather than challenging them and earning social bragging rights, too.
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"If you look at bitcoin and its impact on finance, it's really not that crazy to think that bitcoin could be an extremely huge disruptor to finance as we know it today."
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Three CEOs of 2018 Disruptor 50 companies — Ezetap's Bobby Bose, Thinx's Maria Molland Selby, and Lisnr's Rodney Williams — all agreed that companies that grow fast have to grow up just as quickly.
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That breakthrough has positioned the start-up to change the face of a variety of industries and helped to earn it the No. 20183 spot on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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The change came after hard-edged questions that sought to portray Trump as the disruptor of a stale status quo — and the Democrats as the party of open borders, impeachment and Pelosi.
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Putin's tactics worked to help bring Trump into the Oval Office, and Trump's role as a strategic disruptor is obviously paying dividends, with America's popular reputation provably in decline around the globe.
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Stitch Fix – The personal styling company's stock was rated "buy" in new coverage at SunTrust, which calls Stitch Fix a disruptor that is in position to gain more attention from investors. Overstock.
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"This is the humbling of Donald Trump," said Seth Harris, a former Acting Labor Secretary during the Obama administration, who said Puzder would have been a "radical disruptor" but Acosta won't be.
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To be a viable digital ag disruptor, companies need to ease the mounting burdens on today's farmers by helping them make better use of their time while driving better performance on their farms.
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Much of the disruption of the past decade — and the first six years of Disruptor 50 companies — was built on the platform of the smartphone and the access to the cloud it enabled.
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That could make it hard for Williamson to gain much traction even if she does everything right — while Republicans sought a disruptor in 21, most Democrats want someone who can end the madness.
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"I am bullish on the American economy and this too will resolve itself," O'Leary, the Canadian entrepreneur and "Shark Tank" star, said at the CNBC Disruptor 50 Roadshow in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon.
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"The agency's conclusion is that epoxiconazole is an endocrine disruptor for humans and non-target organisms, and represents a preoccupying level of danger for humans and the environment," it said in a statement.
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Rogers' Apeel, recently named to the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 List, thinks it can combat the problem of food waste with its primary product, a tasteless, odorless, edible coating made from plant materials.
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Amateur T-shirt designers with no money for manufacturing overhead have turned to Teespring (2016 CNBC Disruptor No. 21) to turn their clever ideas, smart logos and (sometimes corny) slogans into woven reality.
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While low-cost robo-advisor offerings such as Betterment would seem to be a major disruptor of the advisory industry, the economics underlying the stand-alone robo-advisor business model are not good.
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Stitt, a millionaire who has used much of his own money to campaign for the seat, has styled himself as a disruptor who would upend how things have been done in the past.
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The researchers did not find a link between fast food consumption and another endocrine disruptor called bisphenol-A, or BPA, which has infamously been linked with early puberty and problems in brain development.
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The first major disruptor was the November 2016 agreement between the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allied producers, including Russia, which is largely credited for reversing the slide in prices.
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At least 52 of the 750 companies submitting for this year's CNBC Disruptor 43 have valuations of $1 billion or more, but only 31 of these so-called "unicorns" made the final list.
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Amazon also poses less of an existential threat in media than Apple, which blew up the music industry by eradicating album sales with 22021-cent digital tracks, or Netflix, the original Hollywood disruptor.
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As a nice bookend to this King's Landing trip, Cersei convinces a representative from the Iron Bank to back her over Daenerys, who she paints as a scary "revolutionary" and slave-trade disruptor.
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His below-average sliding speed makes him a liability at the point of attack, and his lack of length makes him a weak disruptor who doesn't generate deflections or jam up passing lanes.
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By contrast, Jennings was no disruptor; he simply relied on his vast knowledge and knack for obscure trivia to lead him to victory, making jokes and pleasant conversation with Trebek along the way.
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The electronics maker, which was once a disruptor, has seen itself face challenges in China from the likes of Oppo and Vivo which have found success from selling their devices in physical stores.
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Cloudera, a CNBC Disruptor 50 company, said the company intends to continue to expand internationally after the IPO, and will use the proceeds for activities like sales and marketing, research and product development.
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He came up with the idea after a chance encounter with Eileen Rinaldi, the founder of Ritual Coffee Roasters, who also was a positioning her company as a disruptor in the coffee market.
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"Wal-Mart was the great destroyer of retail, the great disruptor, laying waste to mom and pop stores all over the country by offering more products and undercutting them on price," Cramer explained.
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The challenge of growing and transitioning a start-up was a key theme of the "Defining Disruption" panel at CNBC's first-ever Disruptor 50 Roadshow event, held in Los Angeles on May 23.
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A few years ago, Quest and LabCorp came under pressure when would-be disruptor Theranos claimed it had developed a revolutionary machine that could provide test results from just one drop of blood.
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So it makes sense that the industry would see a large, wealthy company like Amazon as its most likely disruptor, even if smaller, more nimble startups are a greater threat in other sectors.
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Here are five notable unicorns from the CNBC Disruptor 50 universe, including the home-sharing giant, that could be making their way off the annual list and into the public markets next year.
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This year there are a few additional opportunities for startups to grab some limelight, with TechCrunch's Custom Disruptor Award program, where Disrupt partners can select exhibiting startups to highlight and award a prize.
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Concerns around a slowdown in the U.S. housing market haven't offset business at Houzz, a rapidly growing online home improvement platform and CNBC Disruptor that helps consumers seek out products and professional designers.
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Adam Alpert, the founder of Sony Music's Disruptor Records, bought a condo, and Frayda Lindemann, vice president of the Metropolitan Opera and widow of the billionaire George Lyle Lindemann, sold a co-op.
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Housed inside the 27-story WeWork (2016 CNBC Disruptor No. 34) building at 110 Wall Street in lower Manhattan is the latest iteration of the company's take on the "we" way of life: WeLive.
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Palantir Technologies, which has made the CNBC Disruptor 50 list for three consecutive years, helps government agencies and Wall Street firms mine data sets for practical applications — from thwarting terrorism to preventing financial fraud.
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Online lender SoFi, a CNBC Disruptor, rated law schools based on verified salary and debt from more than 60,000 people who applied to refinance their student loans with the company from 2014 to 3593.
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CNBC Disruptor 50 company Rent the Runway and Philadelphia-born RevZilla have each uniquely found a place in the hearts of a healthy following of customers who've remained loyal as they've built formidable brands.
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"All these guys tell me the best thing they brought to reinventing their industry and starting a brand new disruptor was (that) they didn't know what couldn't be done in that industry," he added.
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Instead, he said America needs a disruptor like Trump to "break the chains of the status quo" and manage the country in a different way than what has been done in the last decade.
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In an effort to address the skills shortage, three-year-old Udacity (212 CNBC Disruptor No. 21) has partnered with tech giants such as AT&T, Google, Facebook and Amazon to reinvent job training.
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Uber's patent protection is not in the top tier among CNBC Disruptor 1003 companies, according to MCAM International, which provided CNBC with a database of patent, trademark and other intellectual property information and analysis.
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In that case, the should-be disruptor offered a finger prick lab test, though it turned out the company did all its own testing without peer review, according to a New York Times report.
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Disruptor Beam founder and CEO Jon Radoff predicted that this will be another big year for Timelines, with the launch of a new TV show, Star Trek Discovery, bringing fans back to the franchise.
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Each year, we try to discover what the companies that make the list have done that's new, and these seven continue to deliver on the promise of what it means to be a Disruptor.
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That means Cruz as the tea party evangelical candidate and Trump as the disruptor, outsider candidate, and the establishment thought its odds of beating those two would get better if it had one candidate.
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Founded by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett in 2008, GitHub (a 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 company) is a software development platform where users can share their work on projects with others.
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Among the other issues for investors to watch: first, in India - the most volatile telco market in APAC - where the pricing strategy of disruptor Reliance Jio will be crucial in determining incumbents' credit strength.
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CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council — a group of 52 leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship — then ranked the quantitative criteria by importance and ability to disrupt established industries and public companies.
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When the idea does take off, it will prove to be a huge disruptor to the entire retail industry, with more and more stores opting for mobile stores rather than brick and mortar spaces.
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"David and his team have a clear vision of the future and fuboTV's technology is second to none among the disruptor class of content delivery – a perfect match for FaceBank Group," their statement read.
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While all eyes are on Airbnb, there may be another possible direct listing to look out for this upcoming year: Delivery start-up DoorDash, which ranked No. 18 on this year's Disruptor 473 list.
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The company, which ranks No. 6 on the 20193 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, says consumers can save up to 80% with its free GoodRx Pharmacy Discount Cards, as well as through coupons on its site.
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White men, in particular, responded to his rhetoric and persona -- seeing in him a disruptor of oppressive correctness who could lead them back to the top of the heap and the center of the world.
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The aim of Tandem, according to Knox, is not to be a "massive price disruptor" but to "help customers with their finances, help improve relationship with money, make them better off and save them dollars".
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Simon Miller Laurin Dress, $490, available at Shopbop; Sandy Liang Reny Jacket, $550, available at Shop Super Street; Darner Powder Blue Mesh Socks, $38, available at Darner; Fila Disruptor II, $75, available at Six:02.
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"Tesla is clearly capital-intensive... but it's also a disruptor that's growing like crazy, perhaps making it more akin to high-growth tech companies," Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi wrote in a research note on Thursday.
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The impact of this, as I discussed in my original transport series, would be huge for commuting and real estate, and would be a devastating disruptor for short-haul air travel and some trucking routes.
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His tactics also show that President Trump promises to be just as much of a disruptor in international relations as he has been in domestic politics, no matter what conventions get broken in the process.
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Darktrace's innovative approach to cyber security has won more than 100 awards and the company has been named one of WSJ's Tech Companies to Watch, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, and the CNBC Disruptor 50.
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Paul has made a name for himself as a disruptor of Republican efforts, causing a scene on a number of votes, only to ultimately join with the rest of the GOP after making his point.
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The President likes to trade on his image as a "disruptor" as part of his ability to conclude deals, and seems to fancy himself to be the one to bring both parties to an agreement.
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"This is a capability and a business that has an enormous amount of legs, and it can be a disruptor to how consumers think about their cash flow and their payments over time," Coughlin said.
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Rodney Williams, the CEO and co-founder of three-time disruptor Lisnr, this year at No. 22, has reaped the benefits of being a desired place to work, especially in Cincinnati, where Lisnr was founded.
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But 2019 will also likely be remembered as the year that WeWork, which had tried to paint itself as a tech-enabled real estate disruptor, went from a $47 billion valuation to a failed IPO.
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Each year, we try to discover what the companies that make the list have done that is new, and these five continue to deliver on the promise of what it means to be a Disruptor.
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"Not only do we think that Convoy is an innovator and disruptor and is only going to become more relevant in the freight market, but it's a real win-win scenario," Tuffield told Business Insider.
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The choice was, as is seemingly becoming the norm, between a centrist candidate and a far-right disruptor—in the establishment corner sat Emmanuel Macron and in the far-right corner sat Marine Le Pen.
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"Everybody is really feeling this as such a tremendous disruptor, creating this huge sense of anxiety and uncertainty," said Cheryl Matherly, vice president and vice provost for international affairs at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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This is also how he may be able to decouple exuberance from efficiency so that he can be remembered for not only being a disruptor but also a creator of a sustainable machine of disruption.
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In Cincinnati, many young entrepreneurs are launching notable start-ups like Tilr, a hiring platform, and Lisnr, which provides device connectivity using sound waves and is ranked No. 22 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 for 2018.
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But there is an irony to a Silicon Valley executive stressing incumbency as a sales pitch; if anyone should be afraid of a disruptor, offering a service no one else does, shouldn't it be them?
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Though Netflix has long positioned itself as a disruptor of the Hollywood business model — and in many ways it is — it's now faced with the proposition of competing with companies like Disney and Warner Bros.
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In fact, it is the highest demanded item on the most recent Lyst Index—a data-based ranking of the fashion items we're shopping for in a given time—followed closely by the FILA Disruptor 2s.
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Each year, we try to discover what the companies that make the list have done that is new, and these multiyear winners continue to deliver on the promise of what it means to be a disruptor.
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Fourteen of these SoftBank-funded start-ups — Cohesity, Didi Chuxing, DoorDash, Fanatics, Flexport, Grab, InMobi, Kabbage, LanzaTech, Lemonade, Nauto, Opendoor, SoFi, and The We Company (better known as WeWork) made the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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Maybe the heady glow of feeling like a hard-scrabble disruptor wasn't more important than the reality of the spaces those innovators created, and how they could be weaponized, particularly against its most at-risk inhabitants.
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As is common for analysts to worry about Amazon being a larger presence and potential disruptor in any space, Guggenheim downgraded Roku to a neutral from buy and lowered its target from to $72 from $77.
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Houzz is one of several companies on this year's Disruptor list focused on India, reflecting the growing importance of the South Asian country of 269 billion people as a strong consumer market in its own right.
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With $1.4 billion invested into blockchain in the last nine months, enthusiasts, like Nnadi are hopeful it could be the next big development disruptor due to its potential to remove corruption and provide transparency and accountability.
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But it's also a double-edged sword, and Poppenreiter is continually fighting to be taken seriously as both a CEO and a disruptor of the still largely feminine-encoded dating industry, especially at events like NOAH.
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So it might not be a coincidence that many of the Disruptor 50 companies that say it's easier or even "a lot easier" to find qualified employees — like Rent the Runway and Thinx — have female CEOs.
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Dataminr, chosen as No. 13 on the 2014 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, transforms real-time data from Twitter and other public sources into actionable alerts for clients in finance, news, and corporate security, among other industries.
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While the Santa Barbara company was the incumbent disruptor of the stodgy whole-room audio systems of the past, deep-pocketed tech giants like Google and Apple have invested heavily in audio streaming hardware and APIs.
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In the Wednesday statement, the regulator also said the deal could be considered a situation in which a market incumbent tries to pacify a "disruptor," which it described as a potential concern from a competition perspective.
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The rise and sudden fall of WeWork may say more about Son and Neumann and the vulnerability of private tech investors to the Steve Jobs-bad boy digital disruptor image than about public markets per se.
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And seeing these responses is crucial if you want to understand how incumbents are tackling the buy or build question, and for unpacking what&aposs truly a disruptor and what&aposs really just a fancy app.
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Companies with a combined valuation of more than $239 billion dollars earned a spot on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list by reimagining markets and harnessing breakthrough technologies with the hope of becoming tomorrow's great public companies.
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Lowe is known in the industry as something of a disruptor, having served as an executive at Netflix in its early years, from 1998 to 2003, and later as president of Redbox from 2009 to 2011.
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In later episodes, especially, the show develops a creepy tendency to conflate Chris's legitimate grievances—her fury about how male desire is celebrated and female desire ignored—with the notion that she's a patriarchy-toppling disruptor.
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Duolingo, which has made the CNBC Disruptor 50 list for two consecutive years, has seen a big jump in bookings, from $1 million less than three years ago to $100 million, the company revealed to CNBC.
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Coinbase, which landed at the No. 10 spot on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, was certainly in the right place at the right time when bitcoin skyrocketed more than 1,300 percent last year to nearly $20,000.
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The shares have been gaining amid controversy facing Theranos, which has been seen as a potential disruptor in the lab-testing sector by offering less invasive tests, using only a small amount of blood, and low costs.
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There's nothing for Trump to lose politically with his supporters by waging war with the media — and his strategy of exasperating the clubby White House press corps gels with his image as a disruptor who disrespects convention.
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"All these guys tell me the best thing they brought to reinventing their industry and starting a brand new disruptor was (that) they didn't know what couldn't be done in that industry," Frank noted on the show.
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Second, the rigidity of the programming and limited adaptability of the algorithm (in this case controlling the robot) will cause people to develop workarounds to figure out how to deal with this new disruptor in their domain.
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Ranked No. 20 on CNBC's 2019 Disruptor 50 list, YITU has raised more than $400 million from investors, such as China Industrial Asset Management, ICBC International Holdings and Sequoia Capital, and is currently valued at $2 billion.
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"There is no curb in enthusiasm by investors in emerging tech start-ups with high growth potential," said Matt Glickman, a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford Business School who served on this year's CNBC Disruptor Advisory Council.
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When Helios & Matheson first took over and dropped the service's price to $9.95 a month, MoviePass was hailed as a savior, a digital disruptor offering customers a movie-ticket value that seemed too good to be true.
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Best picture predictions have bounced between Hollywood favorite "A Star is Born," to the genre-defying superhero movie "Black Panther" from Disney's Marvel, to artsy "Roma" from digital disruptor Netflix, to throwback "The Green Book" from Universal.
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Since the inception of the CNBC Disruptor 50 list five years ago, seven companies have stayed on the list for all five years, wooing us with innovative ideas and their ability to scale quickly and reshape industries.
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The refurbished platform allows Foursquare, No. 46 on CNBC's Disruptor 8003 list, and its array of customers to understand people's movements across 200 countries, giving them an accurate sense of economic shifts and patterns across the globe.
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The refurbished platform allows Foursquare, No. 46 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list, and its array of customers to understand people's movements across 200 countries, giving them an accurate sense of economic shifts and patterns across the globe.
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CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council — a group of 39 leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship (see list below) — then ranked the quantitative criteria by importance in ability to disrupt established industries and public companies.
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It's clear that Netflix doesn't want to take chances with Roma, a black-and-white drama which has had an exceptional reception among critics so far, and for that, the disruptor needs to break its own rules.
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Quip, when it first launched as a mobile-only native app (it now has a desktop and web version), was described by my colleague Josh as a timely disruptor to the clumsy and very incumbent Microsoft Word.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Payments group Worldpay said on Wednesday it was expanding its business in Australia and New Zealand, a new heavyweight disruptor vying for the business of the established payment networks and banks servicing most local firms.
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Speaking at the first-ever CNBC Disruptor 50 Roadshow event in Los Angeles on May 23, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti explained his support of The Boring Company and the use of LA as a testing ground.
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Donnie Allison was not an outsider — he was part of the "Alabama gang" that included his brother, and drivers Neil Bonnett and Red Farmer — but, while a fine wheelman, he was more of a disruptor that day.
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While the San Francisco-based company is best known as the leading U.S. cryptocurrency trading platform, Coinbase — which landed at the No. 10 spot on the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list — doesn't think of itself that way.
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Opendoor ranked No. 22019 on the 25.3 CNBC Disruptor 289 list and has been valued at close to $4 billion after raising more than $1 billion in capital from investors, including publicly traded national homebuilding company Lennar.
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Neumann presented WeWork as a disruptor par excellence, branding his office-sharing company a technology platform rather than a real estate company, just as Kalanick characterized Uber as a technology platform and not a ride sharing company.
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In 2014, French electro-pop duo Daft Punk swept the Grammys, music streaming service Spotify was named to CNBC's Disruptor 50 list and no one could get Pharrell Williams' chart-topping hit "Happy" out of their heads.
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The top three startups will be recognized on the main stage of the event on December 211 with the Custom Disruptor Award — and receive invitations to the XTC Global Finals at VIVATechnology in Paris in June 123.
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More from CNBC Disruptor 50: How to make money flying drones Early testing is in: Robots should us more than we fear them Commercial space start-ups hitting exit velocity Investment in product innovation has enabled growth.
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"At the time we started in 2008, we started thinking about how communities worked in retail," said Anthony Bucci, founder and former CEO of Revzilla, speaking at the CNBC Disruptor 23 Road Show in Philadelphia on Oct. 24.
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Investors in the sector expect Amazon will become a major disruptor of healthcare, just as it has done in the retail industry, fueled by media reports in recent months that the company was considering entering the pharmacy business.
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Blippar has been recognized as a "Fastest Growing" company by CNN, CNBC, UKTI, Forbes, and Fast Company, featured in the #9 spot on the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, and named one of the 1003 Bloomberg Business Innovators.
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In the seventh annual Disruptor 50 list, CNBC features private companies — from biotech and machine learning to transportation, retail and agriculture — whose innovations are changing the world and fueling a race between superpowers like the U.S. and China.
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Our partnership with Apple will accelerate customer-centric innovation in the credit card industry and is a testament to the remarkable progress we've made in just a few years through Marcus, a growing disruptor in consumer financial services.
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China's overbuilding of refinery capacity will continue to act as a disruptor in Asia's fuel markets, making profits harder to come by and forcing refiners to focus on cost-cutting and flexibility in marketing in order to prosper.
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Anxiety about the Fed ran high this past week in the bond and foreign exchange markets, where Trump's troubles were taken as a potential disruptor for the Fed's plan to raise interest rates two more times this year.
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Sombra is only the second hero to join the roster since the game's release in May, but her unique skill set makes her a much bigger disruptor to the game's meta than Ana, who came out in August.
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Uber's portfolio is more vast but less likely to bring the company a specific advantage, covering everything from search and mapping to autonomous driving, found MCAM, which analyzed the patent quality of all 838 Disruptor nominees for 2017.
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said he has needed to adapt his strategy as the company grew to become one of the highest valued on the Disruptor 50 List — $31 billion as of its last fundraising round last year.
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Now 23andMe — ranked No. 7 on CNBC's 53 Disruptor list — has a $160 health and ancestry service on the market that includes reports on a user's risk of contracting breast cancer, Celiac disease, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
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The sixth annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list, an exclusive list of the most ambitious and innovative companies representing breakthrough ideas from all over the world, will be unveiled across CNBC's TV and Digital platforms on Tuesday, May 003nd.
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Speaking to the National Action Network, a group founded by civil rights activist Al Sharpton, Sanders argued that only a disruptor like himself is capable of bringing about change on issues like economic inequality and criminal justice reform.
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" Blake said about Morgan Stanley's analysis, "I think it means that people, and Wall Street, are starting to see this industry as a valuable one and they've identified our company as … a disruptor, which is a great term.
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In 2017, companies with a combined valuation of more than $239 billion dollars earned a spot on the CNBC Disruptor 8383 list by reimagining markets and harnessing breakthrough technologies with the hope of becoming tomorrow's great public companies.
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And there were the 2017 newcomers, like Uptake Technologies, which brings predictive data analytics to infrastructure and heavy equipment; Trulioo, an internet-age identity verification service; and Skillz, the first Disruptor from the hyper-growing world of esports.
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The announcement was seen as a potential disruptor to an industry already dealing with the uncertainties of health-care changes coming from Washington, D.C. The sector was also swept up in a broader sell-off on Wall Street.
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Oscar, which ranked No. 12 on CNBC's 2018 Disruptor 50 List, uses a mix of technology, provider partnerships and member experience to try to make health insurance pricing clearer for patients, while giving doctors more flexible payment models.
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"No one is afraid to share an idea in Silicon Valley," Donna de Carolis, dean at the Drexel University Close School of Entrepreneurship and a CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council Member, said on the panel with Hall and Mazal.
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The 220 CNBC Disruptor 250 list comes at a moment of change for Silicon Valley, highlighted by the fact that an agricultural technology company, Indigo Ag, with a focus on feeding the planet, is No. 2003 on the list.
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The site, acquired by Time Warner's Turner Sports in 2012 for a reported $175 million, has become a key destination for millennials when it comes to sports news, entertainment and data, all the while emerging as an industry disruptor.
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CNBC's Disruptor 50 Advisory Council — a group of 66 leading thinkers in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship (see list of members below) — then ranked the quantitative criteria by importance and ability to disrupt established industries and public companies.
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Since joining the Vision Fund in 2017, Housenbold has led the investment in 12 of its portfolio companies, three of which are on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list: InMobi, ranked 12th; DoorDash, ranked 18th; and Opendoor, ranked 35th.
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Given the way Trump ran as an anti-Washington, anti-expertise, anti-party disruptor, however, it's simply the case that a very large share of people with relevant expertise and experience have criticized him at one point or another.
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China's over building of refinery capacity will continue to act as a disruptor in Asia's fuel markets, making profits harder to come by and forcing refiners to focus on cost-cutting and flexibility in marketing in order to prosper.
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" Johnson, who previously served as CEO of BevMo, told me he wanted to make sure his next move was to a "disruptor with a powerful vision" and "if able to execute, would leave a dent on the earth's surface.
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As always, nominees for the 2020 Disruptor 50 will be put through a comprehensive and rigorous process of researching and scoring across a wide range of quantitative and qualitative criteria, including scalability, revenue and user growth and workforce diversity.
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" Noto, formerly the chief operating officer of Twitter, said that when — a CNBC Disruptor 50 company whose name stands for "Social Finance" — "the No. 1 priority was making sure that we focused on quality of loans over quantity of loans.
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I&aposm excited to think that the NFL players might come and actually have conversations with him, because if he&aposs going to be the disruptor and the force of change, then that&aposs the kind of thing you can do.
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And ... every company on the planet wants to be a disruptor on some level … they want to be a first, they want to be market movers, so they want to partner with organizations that see the world the same way.
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Using Amazon as an example of a disruptor in the retail space, Chen explained how big-box stores like Walmart have already been threatened by a "changing shopping pattern," and by consumers who don't physically want to go to stores anymore.
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And they represent breakthrough ideas coming not just from the start-up hotbeds of Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston but also from a few places new to the Disruptor 2750 — from Provo, Utah; to Paris, France; and Bangalore, India.
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The Veritas whole genome sequencing product "myGenome" will go down in price from $999 to $599, a new price point that the company, a 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50, thinks will lead millions of more consumers to access the company's services.
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Venmo and Braintree are two services that have helped PayPal, a true disruptor when it burst on the scene, keep up with the pace of change as mobile becomes the primary Internet access channel for hundreds of millions on the planet.
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The new funds come as Didi continues heavy expansion in several new overseas markets, where it hopes to challenge Uber and other ride-hailing giants like India's Ola, Brazil's Easy Taxi and Singapore's Grab — a three-time CNBC Disruptor 13 company.
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The same will be true of some of the companies that earn a spot on the 2019 Disruptor 50 List, and our new 15-year age limit gives CNBC even more capacity to identify the next generation of groundbreaking start-ups.
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How to protect a financial institution (FI), "where the money lives" and to institute an effective cybersecurity policy at a new financial technology (fintech) disruptor such as Bristol-based robo-advisor Hargreaves Lansdown are also discussed in these expert interviews.
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The company, which was on the 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, has completed more than 60,000 transactions at an annualized run rate of $5 billion in total housing market value — $1.5 billion of that total housing value is from homebuilders.
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Radoff said the launch reflects the same philosophy that Disruptor Beam used with Game of Thrones Ascent and Star Trek Timelines — the goal is to win over the most passionate fans of the franchise, and then expand outward from there.
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So its machines may soon become a common sight at hospitals across the U.S. More from CNBC Disruptor 50: How star start-ups scale up for success 23andMe disrupts genetic testing When Silicon Valley write the check, women get less
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Yet those on CNBC's Disruptor 220 list — the 222 companies CNBC believes have the potential to upend multibillion-dollar industries to become the next generation of great public companies — revealed they are actually seeing progress when it comes to hiring.
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Carmel, a managing partner at Manhattan Venture Partners who is involved in pre-IPO investment, praised Kalanick for being a disruptor that changed a highly regulated industry, but said the company now needs to be led by someone with more experience.
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The start-up, which ranks No. 22016 on the 2018 Disruptor 50 List and is now in its sixth year, believes it finally has the formula in place to become profitable and improve the health-care experience for its members.
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"From the feet of Fashion Week trendsetters in Tokyo, Paris, and Milan, to collaborations with sneaker boutiques in New York City, Los Angeles, and more, the Disruptor 2 was the perfect combination of trendy, stylish, affordable, and easily available," he said.
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As leaders of a broad-based coalition advocating for health care choice and competition in Washington, D.C., (White) and an industry disruptor administering personalized HRA benefits for thousands of workers nationwide (Hooper), we fundamentally believe in the flexibility that HRAs provide.
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Convoy, which ranked No. 11 on CNBC's 2019 Disruptor 50 list, can consider "tens of thousands of trucks at the same time," and matches customers the best option, making the process more efficient by ultimately saving time, money and CO2 emissions.
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Still, because of its enormous footprint across so many aspects of households around the world, Samsung now possesses a bigger potential to become a disruptor in the platform war than its earlier OS-based efforts with Tizen might have suggested.
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What they don&apost understand is that Americans are fed up with both parties, they are disgusted, so they purposely elected an iconoclast, a disruptor, and someone that they knew would get results and make decisions and move with the speed of Trump.
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" Noto, formerly the chief operating officer of Twitter, said that when he joined SoFi — a CNBC Disruptor 50 company whose name stands for "Social Finance" — "the No. 1 priority was making sure that we focused on quality of loans over quantity of loans.
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Bittner was recently honored at the CNBC' Asia Business Leaders Awards in Jakarta with the "Asia Disruptor of the Year Award" nod, something the former investment banker says is a nice milestone for work done, but he sees a long career ahead.
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The problem of declining production in Myanmar may prove to be a longer-lasting supply disruptor with the ITA warning the raw materials crunch in China could worsen in the first part of this year before domestic supply picks up the slack.
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It feels only fitting that her fall has made her an even more irresistible subject — an illustration of Silicon Valley hubris, an archetype for the dark side of disruptor culture, a target for armchair diagnosis, and an apparently boundless source of schadenfreude.
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"If we're going to have this genomics revolution, it's going to be driven by the consumer," said 23andMe CEO and cofounder Anne Wojcicki at Future of Genomic Medicine IX in March, which was No. 233 on the 2016 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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The awards gathered high-profile business figures from 10 countries in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday to vy for the accolades of Asia Business Leader of the Year, Asia Disruptor of the Year, Talent Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Indonesia Business Leader and Lifetime Achievement.
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The eight-person team, which ultimately reports up to HP's CTO Shane Wall, is being led by Andrew Bolwell, who has spent the last 16 years with HP and has held the title of chief disruptor for the last few of them.
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GC: Yes, absolutely, Karen, and clearly Donald Trump is already acting as a disruptor when it comes to many businesses that sell into the United States, and IT one area and industry that has not been left untouched by Donald Trump's Twitter feed.
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In short, this is a disruptor app some are calling the "Uber of birth control" that is showing the way around the unique U.S. rules that don't allow the pill and many other effective birth control methods to be sold over the counter.
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Following my time as an NBC page, I rejoined CNBC as an analyst on the network's strategic content and news partnerships team working on on-air and digital special reports including Disruptor 50, Upstart 25, Top States for Business, the iConic Conference series.
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Read more: 'The industry is killing itself': Critics say TV is stalling in its efforts to get its advertising act together"Across the US population, half of consumers are now buying disruptor brands," said Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
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The rise of a mobile real estate economy geared toward retail and small service businesses would undoubtedly be a major disruptor that would change the landscape of the industry; however, that's not to say that it would necessarily have a negative impact.
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If you want to follow along at home, the upshot here is that Tesla, often named as the Prime Disruptor, is really just a car company whose cars run on electricity rather than gas and whose CEO runs a side business launching rockets.
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But two positive presidential personal qualities did emerge from the list, with 85033 percent of respondents agreeing Trump is a disruptor of conventional Washington politics, and 55 percent crediting him with being dogged in his determination to enact the policies he promised.
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The chief election disruptor is former federal Senator Nick Xenophon, a centrist figure who resigned his seat in Canberra to contest the South Australian election with his fledgling political party SA Best in a risky gambit that has spooked the major parties.
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"Boston has been an amazing home for Ginkgo," Barry Canton, co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks, No. 21 on CNBC Disruptor 50, tells CNBC Make It. The company builds made-to-order microbes for customers in markets such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals and food.
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It started as a model to help women dress for special occasions, "but what customers were telling us was we want to do this all the time," said Sullivan, who spoke on a panel with Bucci at the Disruptor 50 Road Show in Philadelphia.
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Indigo, named to the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, is working to improve the environmental sustainability of farming, while also improving the nutrition value of food and the profitability of farmers, by using naturally occurring microbes in place of chemical fertilizer, according to Perry.
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Telling your consumers about the many challenges you face as a disruptor of an "unaffordable and broken" entertainment system just isn't going to cut it when you started by offering them a sundae, but now give them what feels like a near-empty bowl.
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In 2018 Rent the Runway — the company that transformed the way people think about buying, and owning, designer apparel and accessories — was named the ninth most disruptive company in the world on CNBC's Disruptor 50 list, joining the ranks of Uber, SpaceX and Airbnb.
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That said, there's still a strong argument to say that Facebook, the dominant force of the social web and then the social mobile web, should not be allowed to shape and dictate even a nascent potential future disruptor in the same social technology sphere.
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Thiel has justified his support of Trump by suggesting that he is a fellow disruptor, but it has become clear over the past few years that disruption is the last thing that powerful tech companies actually want—unless it's strictly happening on their terms.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The great disruptor that is U.S. shale oil is coming to Asia, as refiners in the energy-hungry region look to expand and diversify their sources of crude, and the consequences will likely go well beyond a shift in oil trade flows.
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The prince may not have wanted this confrontation right now -- or may have miscalculated the ability of his brother, the Saudi oil minister, to negotiate for him in Vienna -- but what is clear is that MBS, by default or design, can be a global disruptor.
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"Tilting Point has been a great partner to us and have proven that they care about the game and its community and there's no one better to take Star Trek Timelines to the next level," said Disruptor Beam CEO Jon Radoff in a statement.
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Antitrust concerns may be the biggest barrier facing a potential disruptor in the US. However, by implementing measures to make operations more efficient now, and by making debt loads more sustainable, US wireless incumbents stand a better chance of dissuading a new entrant altogether.
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Add to that the suggestions that Eleven has also agreed deals to add the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and NBA Basketball, both also from BT, to its roster by the end of the year and its place as a sports disruptor will be secured.
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The 2017 CNBC Upstart 25 companies, as well as all past CNBC Disruptor 50 companies, are not eligible for the 2018 CNBC Upstart 100 List honorees will be notified in September, and the CNBC Upstart 100 List will be revealed to the public in October.
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Both women knew the importance of marketing, even at the expense of actual production: Holmes styled herself as a "disruptor" and enlisted Errol Morris to make commercials for her company; Carmichael got the Dale placement on The Price is Right – the 1970s equivalent to a viral video.
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However, Khashoggi regularly wrote in critical terms about the crown prince, who has sought to legitimize his claim to King Salman's throne by portraying himself as a Silicon Valley-style disruptor eager to transform the nation's economy via massive tech and logistics deals with international conglomerates.
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So many banks on the cap table might seem like a strange thing for a disruptor — let alone the banks, which tend to behave territorially — but Takatori believes that there's the potential for cooperation, not to mention that it will help the startup with its licensing efforts.
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The company, which provides voice, text, chat and video services to millions of app developers, was named to the Disruptor 50 List for four straight years, from 2013 to 2016, and then debuted at the New York Stock Exchange in June 2016 at $15 per share.
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"These homeowners and professionals expressed strong interest in helping us localize Houzz for India, and we're excited to work with them to further tailor the experience," says Adi Tatarko, CEO and co-founder of Houzz, which made the CNBC Disruptor 21.4 list for the third straight year.
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From the pre-Chuck-Taylor days at Converse to the ever-recognizable Air Jordans and the revival of the Fila Disruptor — a shoe that gained momentum during the 2018 "ugly fashion" movement — it seems like there is always something new happening in the world of athletic footwear.
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But industry observers were excited for what they thought was going to be a significant disruptor in an industry that is full of relatively old technologies such as antivirus and firewalls, is rife with products that offer solutions in search of a problem and outright snake oil.
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The prince has long sought to portray himself as a Silicon Valley-style disruptor eager to diversify Saudi Arabia's mostly oil-dependent economy into a regional tech and logistics hub, and he's spearheaded billions of dollars of sovereign wealth fund investments into foreign tech giants like Uber and Softbank.
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The Oscar winner is among an elite circle of Hollywood and Silicon Valley backers behind Diamond Foundry (Disruptor No. 33), a Bay Area company that claims it uses technology to accomplish what alchemists and others have attempted in vain for centuries: growing diamonds and other precious stones from scratch.
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Niantic, which ranked No. 23.3 on the 215 CNBC Disruptor 25 list, was formed nine years ago as a start-up inside of Google called Niantic Labs and was spun out in 2015 with investments from Google, The Pokémon Company, and Nintendo, when Google reorganized under new parent Alphabet.
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Tesla is also facing a federal field investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board after several Model X and Model S owners across the globe said their cars burst into flames, a major disruptor for the company as it tries to ramp up deliveries of its cars.
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To commercial real estate's old guard, many of whose stock prices have gone sideways or worse for half a decade, WeWork - the main unit of recently renamed The We Company - is a disruptor leading the charge toward the shrinking of workspace with a business model unhindered by property ownership.
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It's no wonder that half of the 2018 CNBC Disruptor 50 list don't come from the tech and business world's deepest pockets in Silicon Valley and New York, but places like Pittsburgh, Chicago, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Reno, Nevada, and overseas locations like Amsterdam, Bangalore, India, Singapore and Beijing, China.
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In an interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin at the Disruptor 50 event in San Francisco on Wednesday night, Hoffman had perhaps his harshest words yet about the president, calling him "worse than useless" and saying that he'd "take someone randomly picked from a phone book" over him as president.
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"Disruptor Brands: Founders Benchmark Study" is based on inputs from more than 200 DTC founders and leadership teams on their strategies, capabilities, and goals; and "Direct Brands: Media & Customer Acquisition" digs into DTC brands&apos media and customer acquisition strategies based on a survey of 330 media buyers.
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Caparo, looking back, suggests that the idea was a disruptor of sorts that held some potential, but that, in the end, it turned out to be "a great marketing campaign," and that if Swatch was truly serious about it, it would have pushed the idea a bit harder.
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"BET Networks is thrilled to partner once again with the creative visionary Lena Waithe on both Boomerang and Twenties as she is without a doubt a leading relevant voice in our generation and a disruptor in her own right," Connie Orlando, BET's head of programming, told Deadline in April.
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" With over eighteen hundred Better Business Bureau complaints in the last few years (compared to Invisalign that has only a handful of complaints over the last 20+ years) and the unidentified, unsatisfied patients that have received refunds, it can indeed be concluded that they are an "industry disruptor.
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And some of the interest has been because of the tech itself: originally conceived as a kind of disruptor to the business and potential of hyperlocal information, Compass finally took the form of doing this in relation to one specific aspect of living locally: the place where you actually live.
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That entrepreneurial moxy is a key if a start-up is get on the fast track to success, according to Jeff Jordan, a partner of Andreessen Horowitz who sits on the board of Airbnb and Pinterest, which were No. 103 and No. 31, respectively, on this year's CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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The Renaissance IPO ETF (IPO) that tracks recent IPOs is up 18 percent year-to-date, driven in large part by Shopify, a company from the inaugural 2013 Disruptor 50 list whose stock is up more than 115 percent year-to-date and almost 250 percent over the past 12 months.
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This disruptor may substantially reduce the need for personal auto liability coverage, while at the same time create a huge growth opportunity for product liability insurers, as responsibility for most accidents caused by self-directed vehicles would likely be shifted from the owner to the manufacturer or safety software producer.
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In so doing, Uber moves from the lofty ranks of admirable disruptor to just another company doing what looks like a poor job or protecting its data and definitely doing a terrible job at handling the job of keeping its customers, investors, and the general public properly informed and prepared.
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And we have successfully transitioned from a cable television company which was a disruptor of the broadcasting sports business to a digital company in the '260s which used that disruption not to worry about our other business or abandon our other business, but to build on top of that business.
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But there's some good news for those of us who can't quite afford the most popular — and most expensive — pieces each season: FILA's Disruptor II sneaker, a leader in the rising tide of the 'ugly' shoe, retails for a more reasonable $65 and comes in at number two for the women's hottest products.
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Why you should drink water first thing every dayPrescription drug costs are up; So are TV ads promoting themTrump proposes to privatize air-traffic control Also proposed for elimination are lesser-known bureaucracies like the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program, the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program and the Inter-American Foundation.
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Operating in more than 97 percent of the world's countries, the Disruptor recently expanded its online marketplace for home- (or room-) sharing by launching Trips, which allows guests to not only book a place to stay but also choose from thousands of experiences that are unique to the host city or country.
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The good news for investors is that many unicorns on our CNBC Disruptor list could hit the button to go public this year, including Airbnb, Uber, Pinterest, Didi, Lyft, Palantir, and SpaceX, providing an exit strategy for inside investors and venture capitalists who have been waiting for years to monetize their investments.
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A deal of that size could suggest that VC firms have gotten overzealous in their determination to put cash to work, and that investors have fallen too deeply in love with disruptor companies like Tesla, which makes electric cars and whose founder is determined to break down the barriers to space travel.
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The second disruptor of significance was the rise of the United States as a major supplier to Asia, with Chinese refiners especially keen on the light, sweet oil that made up most of the exports, although it's worth noting that some heavier crude from offshore Gulf of Mexico fields also made its way east.
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And that is how I've heard time and again why Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's biggest fans love him: He is the Great Disruptor!
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As CNBC begins the process of selecting the 50 start-ups best positioned to shake up the status quo and make the 2016 CNBC Disruptor list, the old guard in tech is anxious to get ahead in AI: IBM, with its Watson offerings, and Microsoft's Cortana are among the major efforts to mimic a human understanding of language.
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The show made a ubiquitous pop icon of Batman, but by the early '70s, in response the series' fast slide from glory, creators like influential disruptor duo of writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Neal Adams had returned Bruce Wayne to a more moody, urban aesthetic that satisfied maturing readers, if not always sparking huge sales spikes.
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Uber, Lyft, Palantir and Slack — all which have spent multiple years on the CNBC Disruptor 50 list — are considering IPOs that, according to recent reports, could reach a combined valuation over $200 billion, with Uber getting most of it: Uber ($120 billion), Lyft ($15 billion to $20 billion), Palantir ($41 billion), Airbnb ($31 billion) Slack ($7 billion).
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"I think we've always thought that it's important to have a positive relationships with local government, rather than taking a confrontational kind of stance," Blecharczyk said in an interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin that aired Tuesday on "Squawk on the Street " after Airbnb was named the No. 1 company on the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50 list.
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" Interviewed on Bloomberg Television on Friday after Trump's announcement, Moore said he is an "independent voice" despite his close ties to and support of Trump's policies and said he did not want to be a "disruptor" but instead aimed to work closely with Powell "to try to make sure that America grows as fast as it can.
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While Tesla still relies on the capital-intensive production system that car makers like Ford and GM have mastered over more than century, the company is viewed as a disruptor — focused on direct-to-consumer sales — and the market has given it a high valuation as that of a technology stock, despite its inability to consistently turn a profit.
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" Interviewed on Bloomberg Television on Friday after Trump's announcement, Moore said he is an "independent voice" despite his close ties to and support of Trump's policies and said he did not want to be a "disruptor" but instead aimed to work closely with Powell "to try to make sure that America grows as fast as it can.
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As one of many partners in the citywide NYC Youth Mentoring Initiative mentoring campaign, YMI was very intentional in funding and supporting mentoring strategies with an equity lens, adopting a theory that creating villages of mentors is a key disruptor in altering the trajectory many young people of color face, simply because of their zip code.
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Photo: Paul White (AP)Saudi crown prince and heir to the throne Mohammed bin Salman is big on PR. He's fond of selling himself as a Silicon Valley-style disruptor eager to take Saudi Arabia into the future as a regional tech and logistics hub, trying to ink big deals with international tech giants that could help solidify his claim to the throne.
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How Uber, Airbnb and other star start-ups scale up for success Spotify's IPO disrupted Wall St. What's ahead for unicorns looking to go public When Silicon Valley VCs write the check, women get less, but that's changing "In Cincinnati we were able to attract the superstars," said Williams, speaking at CNBC's Disruptor 50 Roadshow event in Los Angeles last month.
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One senior diplomatic source with knowledge of the discussions about the visit said Trump sees Macron as a fellow disruptor who isn't afraid to break the mold and speak out bluntly and the two have established a good working relationship, despite Macron's strong criticism of Trump's announcement in June last year that the US intended to leave the Paris Climate Agreement.
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If you're an antitrust enforcer and you're deciding whether or not to shut something down, you shut it down after you've been adequately convinced, hey, the market's competitive, and things are going to be okay, there's going to be new ... Two guys in a garage starting some disruptor and everything's going to, the market's going to take care of itself.
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But the downside reality is what companies like Honest Company end up suffering through: If you don't think long and hard enough about how much capital you are taking on and whether your valuation is reasonable, your best shot at an acquirer — in Honest's case, it was Unilever — will choose to buy a disruptor like Seventh Generation at a price that makes more sense.
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In addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award that, 55 shortlisted candidates will vie for the remaining awards in the following categories: Asia Business Leader of the Year Asia Disruptor of the Year Asia Talent Management Award Corporate Social Responsibility Award China Business Leader of the Year The shortlisted candidates represent markets from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
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With £28 million to invest initially, the VC firm has already backed Doodle Productions (creator of the international hit animated series Messy Goes To Okido), Disruptor Beam (creator of popular mobile games such as Game of Thrones Ascent and Star Trek Timelines), PunchDrunk (immersive theatre company), and The Rights Xchange (a digital TV rights marketplace which also includes Sky and Channel 4 as investors).
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"If you are a landlord or you are buying or selling a property, why would you pay up to three or four times as much for a traditional estate agency when it's quite clear that the likes of Purple Bricks and other models are able to provide just as much reach to a potential audience of buyers but of far greater value," explained One such disruptor is eMoov.
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More from the CNBC Disruptor 2120:Why Warren Buffett's utility is betting on a big data start-upEarly testing is in: Robots should fear us more than we fear themReinventing headphones for an era of 'hearable' health careThe utility start-up officially launched in New York three months ago and so far has signed up hundreds of customers — though it would not be more specific — some of which double as both producers and buyers.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE — the Great Disruptor who is challenging the premises and practices that all the Serious People tell us are immutable — is disrupting business-as-usual in Washington, New York, Geneva, Brussels and Beijing.
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