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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

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Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting?

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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit

socalTECH

Shopzilla was then sold, and I worked for a couple of years at the acquirer, Scripps, until 2007. So, in September of 2007, I got back into it, and we got a group of people going on a new startup, DotSpots. So, in the middle of 2013, my wife came to me saying -- Farhad, I want to support you, but what exactly am I supporting?

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x in 2013 and then reverted back to 4x – a little bit below the historical mean. Even Sequoia.

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