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JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

Venture Capital 214

Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

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JUNE 28, 2011

They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. They came from a different perspective. They have the mass retailer mentality of “stack ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap.&#

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318