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

Both Sides of the Table

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Total raised: $17mm. See: paidContent.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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If you look at the site, it's comprised principally of individual bulletin boards for private companies. Companies we've selected are those that are the most exciting, and high profile, that people will want to invest in. We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect. Are you transacting sales through the site yet?

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