socalTECH
JULY 21, 2014
One of Southern California''s big success stories -- from startup, to venture funding, and a recent IPO--is Los Angeles-based TrueCar , which had its IPO in May. First of all, the process is unbelievably antiquated, and designed to put all sorts of checks and balances into the system to protect investors. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Painter, who was previously CEO and founder of TrueCar, and has a long history in the automotive purchasing and financing industry, sat down with us to discuss Fair, what he learned at TrueCar, and how he hopes Fair will transform the auto industry. What lessons did you learn from TrueCar, which are you are applying here?
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 12, 2013
GRP’s biggest winners over the years have not only come from LA (Overture, CitySearch, TrueCar) but from Chicago (Envestnet, Ulta), Las Vegas (HDI), Baltimore (BillMeLater), New York (DealerTrack), London (LastMinute.com) and other locations. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. As Adam Sandler would say, “ not too shabby.”
socalTECH
AUGUST 4, 2011
Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. One of the core pieces of that technology was around marketing and customer acquisition. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. What kind of customers are using the tool?
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