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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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The firm is headed by Gil Elbaz , who is known for co-founding Applied Semantics, the firm which invented Google's AdSense product. Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. Talk about local, and where you're seeing the most usage of your APIs/datasets?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway. So it’s always a trade-off. Commuting - The freeways here are legendary for traffic.

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