socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based Zag , the online car buying software firm headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, has scored an investment from financial services firm USAA , USAA disclosed Thursday. Zag develops technology which allows members of groups like USAA to fully configure and purchase cars, through car buying programs.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 6, 2008
Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer. Zag has developed a software product which allows users to fully configure and price cars for car buying programs and affinity groups; the firm's software is already being used by a number of other AAA clubs.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 1, 2009
Join us as we kick off the holiday season in grand style and bestow the Digital Family Outstanding Achievement Honor on Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. Tell a friend, and purchase your ticket at www.digitalfamilyinc.com. Use discount code: DFR30 to receive $30 price. Win a ticket to digiday:APPS.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Competitors: Gowalla. Total Raised: $21.4mm. Kontagent. -A
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
But we do have great technology developers. You can hire a talented head of marketing, business development, technology and sales. You need to for conferences, business development and often for sales. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship.
socalTECH
JANUARY 28, 2009
Jose daVeiga: In 2006, we started developing the concept, consisting of a PA announcement and a Jumbotrom image. I was doing project management at CarsDirect.com, and we met there while Kent was in Business Development. I started as a tester, but in six months, I had risen to assistant project manager at CarsDirect.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners). Now let’s think about retention.
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