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.
Several thousand people watched as the 25-year-old thrill seeker warmed up on the 1,000-foot run-in only to fly across the water a little after midnight. In a hop that unofficially measured 274 feet, Travis Pastrana travelled from Long Beach, Calif.'s Pine Street Pier onto a barge in a record breaking rally car jump.