Another early investor was former President George Bush, who accepted stock in lieu of an $ 80, 000 fee for speaking to Global Crossing customers in Tokyo in 1999, although it is not known whether Bush sold his stock.
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In the late 1990s, the station was sold to Univision Communications and became a Univision owned-and-operated station ( Smith had accepted stock in SIN as part of the original affiliation agreement ); the station was then rebranded as " Univision 19 ".
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Having accepted stock options as a big chunk of their compensation _ a common practice among Internet ventures _ many of them dreamed that their shares would mimic those of companies like Theglobe . com, whose stock shot up 500 percent on the first day of trading.
