DEFINITION of 'Private Company'. A company whose ownership is private. As a result, it does not need to meet the strict Securities and Exchange Commission filing requirements of public companies.Next Up. company whose ownership is private. As a result, it does not need to meet the strict Securities and Exchange Commission filing requirements of public companies.
Motorbike ballet as riders crash. Bubba Blackwell, another American stuntman, set the previous record with a 157 foot (47.85 meters) jump in Las Vegas in 1999. He broke the record set by Evel Knievel in 1975, which he held for 24 years.
Robbie Knievel eclipsed his father's record earlier this year by jumping 200ft over 24 trucks. The original: Evel Knievel posing at an exhibition in 1974. He died in 2007. His father had managed 115ft over 14 buses at the same venue, a theme park in Ohio, back in 1975.