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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. We wanted new things to exist and to solve new problems and to see our creations come to life.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. In a world of hard-to-come-up-with brand names, I love that name. Mark Sylvester: It has been different.