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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

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We had some great offshore coders as part of the engineering team. Clark Benson: We raised money from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Palo Alto, Rincon Ventures, and a number of angels. Although that worked, it took a long time to get to a strong, profitable model we could then exit. Most of that funding is going towards staffing up.

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