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Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Los Angeles Tech Market Analysis' Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. ” Dana & I took a chance on the founders early on.
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