socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2019

Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. What does ZestFinance do? When did you make that transition to just software and away from your own lending business?

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Artificial Inteligence Tool CIO Customer 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. You don’t. Get over it.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. While aggregation services such as Friendfeed potentially cut down on the manual effort of using the social Web, it’s still not mainstream despite being a good example of what’s possible. You’re not the only one.

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