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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

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We've set out to enable that across any platform, live, during games. I started as a tester, but in six months, I had risen to assistant project manager at CarsDirect. We're working very hard on streamlining that, so it's a finite product and not everything is totally custom. It was 1999, and it was not like things are today!

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.