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Gradient X Snags Exec From OpenX

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Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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Sending the zeros and ones into the air was the same and sending nutrients into your mitochondria, except that at Visalus, it was not capital intensive like it was at SkyPipeline. It was really the same business, but with less capital. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney.