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howery

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for howery.

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What qualifications does Howery have to be an ambassador?

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of howery gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for howery.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

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What qualifications does Howery have to be an ambassador?

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PayPal started as Confinity with Levchin/Thiel/Nosek/Howery and had its own set of finance industry investors.

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Howery was ambassador to Sweden during Trump’s first term.

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Trump has nominated Ken Howery, Musk’s longtime friend and occasional houseguest, who helped Musk lead PayPal years ago, to become ambassador to Denmark, where Howery’s prime mission would be negotiating a deal to buy Greenland — a pet project of Trump’s.

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The people who give him credit are the same people who sold PayPal for $1.5 billion in July 2002: Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, Reid Hoffman, David Sacks, Ken Howery, Jeremy Stoppelman, Russel Simmons.

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Paypal was a merger or two companies very early on: "The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.[10] Confinity was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography company.[11] X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company.

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• Elon Musk did not cofound PayPal - He founded X.com and that company merged with Paypal which was founded by Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek and Ken Howery) • Same Elon did not cofound Tesla - it was started and incorporated by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning • Etsy was not cofounded by Jared Tarbell - It was a trio of Robert Kalin, Chris Macquire and Haim Schoppik that launched the initial company.

Quote examples

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Paypal was a merger or two companies very early on: "The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com.[10] Confinity was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography company.[11] X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company.

Proper noun examples

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PayPal started as Confinity with Levchin/Thiel/Nosek/Howery and had its own set of finance industry investors.

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Howery was ambassador to Sweden during Trump’s first term.

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Trump has nominated Ken Howery, Musk’s longtime friend and occasional houseguest, who helped Musk lead PayPal years ago, to become ambassador to Denmark, where Howery’s prime mission would be negotiating a deal to buy Greenland — a pet project of Trump’s.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use howery in a sentence?

What qualifications does Howery have to be an ambassador?

What does howery mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is howery?

howery is commonly used as noun.