Balsillie, who made his fortune as one of the founders of Research in Motion, the firm that gave the world the BlackBerry, now devotes himself to an array of good and sometimes quixotic causes.
" Kelly started at Facebook after his friend Sean Parker, one of the founders of Napster, introduced him to Zuckerberg; at the time, there were twenty-five employees and two and a half million users, all of whom, by Facebook law, had an e-mail address ending in edu.
The company that shareholders will own does not have direct ownership of Alibaba's assets and business, which operates through "variable interest entities" owned by its founders.
" Livingston counters that the university is committed to seeing students continue their education, and only a small fraction of StartX founders enter the program without having finished their undergraduate degree.
