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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. And it carries no inventory. a fbFund winner.

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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Alex Nocifera, Field Day

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Alex Nocifera: We help the enterprise, large brands, working with brands like US Cellular, Panera Bread, Square, Uber, and help them generate demand for their products and services in a local, acute manner. Where are you now as a company, understanding that lots of things have changed due to this pandemic? What is Field Day?

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