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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

less than 18 months from when the company was created so I thought it was probably a good time to weigh in on the questions I get asked most frequently and why we’re so excited about Bird. How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? That’s what we all thought about Uber, too.

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The dinner that destroyed Gawker

TechCrunch LA

Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now.

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About this Blog

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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Interview with Jon Waterman, Founder and CEO of Ad.net

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Talk about the market, when you say you're outside Google and Bing, explain what that means? The company was founded in 2001, as Findology Interactive Media. I sold that business in late 2007, right before the debt crisis, and sold it to a public company in Australia. Prior to the pandemic, about 1/3 was e-commerce.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company? Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant. What's unique about what entertainment companies are looking for in mobile ads?

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How to Avoid Being Disrupted as a VC

Both Sides of the Table

In a world that is hyper competitive – even amongst VCs – I can honestly say that not only is the media recognition accurate but it is amongst the proudest days I’ve had in developing Upfront Ventures and our future. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more.

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How ConsumerTrack Has Created A Growing, Profitable--and Mostly Unknown Business

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We caught up with CEO and co-founder Brett Rossman to learn more about the company and how it''s been able to grow, profitably, all without raising a dime of outside capital. What is ConsumerTrack all about? We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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