socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Santa Monica-based TrueCar announced late Thursday that it has acquired a 20 percent stake in Accu-Trade , a provider of vehicle apparisal technology. Accu-Trade, which is based in Manheim, Pennsylvania, and provides a mobile app which offers up vehicle appraisals and valuations for dealers and consumers.

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JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc). Includes content mobile guides, ie. And it carries no inventory.

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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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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. I made some reference calls. He was stubborn.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

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APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. All applications crash and this is especially true in the nascent mobile world where dealing with device types, OS’s & networks adds one hell of a configuration management problem. Customer Acquisition. On measurement. Is it 4/1,000? lowering $1.50

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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.”

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