# Links between top US companies and directors revealed at theyrule.net

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/06/24/links-between-top-us-companies-and-directors-revealed-theyrulenet/
- Published: 2004-06-24T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Theyrule.net attempts to demonstrate the links between major US companies and their
directors, some of the most powerful organisations and individuals in the world.

It is not intended as a research tool for fundraisers, but it can show prospect 
researchers just how complicated some of the business links between American company
directors can be.

The site is an interactive, Flash-based presentation, and allows you to seek links
between various companies. Some directors sit on the boards of half a dozen top 
500 US companies.

Theyrule.net is not a live database of companies and their directors. The creator
hopes to update it annually, but admits that it “is a starting point for research
about these powerful individuals and corporations.”

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In some ways, the arresting graphical presentation of the links must make some fundraising
researchers yearn for someone to create such a resource for top UK business people
and companies. Knowing who knows whom is vital, but knowing who has corporate links
with whom would be a pretty good starting place.

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