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Reflections On 2016: John Greathouse, Investor, Professor at UC Santa Barbara

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This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. John Greathouse: We opened up our practice in San Diego by investing in Zingle and Raken. I am very excited with the prospects of the San Diego market, as it reminds me of Santa Barbara circa 2005.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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So Skype was ubiquitous. billion (plus an earn out that could have totalled $4 billion but didn’t in the end) in 2005 before selling 65% of the company in 2009 for $1.9 So at least they preserved some value and they didn’t “ pull an AOL “ But it wasn’t exactly the boon that they had expected.

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