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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

I sold that company, eCRUSH, which operated espin.com, to Hearst at the end of 2006. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We're not yet marketing or selling direct to advertisers, because we're really focused on growing and honing our platform. What's the story behind Ranker?

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Interview with Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

socalTECH

Around the 2006 timeframe, they hit $3M, and we saw the unique position that they could occupy in the industry. They kept building really great functionality into the platform, and they were always ahead of the market, and always able to anticipate what customers wanted next. We raised our fund in 2006 to follow this exact model.

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