Meanings of bet the company in English

Windows, itself, I had bet the company on, all the way back in 1983.

IBM chairman Thomas J Watson literally bet the company on a mainframe computer launched 40 years ago next month.

But most who know the 47-year-old vegan, would bet the company continues its explosive growth for some years to come.

So Automattic pulled the plug on its Apache migration and bet the company on a then-unknown open source project called Nginx.

Its share price has risen more than six-fold since mid-2016 as investors bet the company could benefit from a huge contract with Apple.

They're not stretching the balance sheet, they haven't bet the company on it, said David Katz, president of Matrix Asset Advisors, which holds Chevron shares.

Those big investors are betting the company's unique product will soon blanket commercial buildings across the world.

Spreading risk around can make it possible to develop these projects, "without betting the company, so to speak," he said.

Their new-found health has prompted investors to snap up their stock in a bet the companies will be made private in the future.

Amazon shares have climbed this year as investors are betting the company will benefit as more shopping moves online from traditional retail outlets.

Ackman, whose criticism of MBIA has been widely followed by the media and investors, has been betting the company's shares would tumble since 2002.

But credit and equity investors are betting the company's debts are probably unmanageable, and a bankruptcy filing or some similarly painful fix is likely.