Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. You don’t.
socalTECH
APRIL 10, 2019
Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. What does ZestFinance do? When did you make that transition to just software and away from your own lending business?
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
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.
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 20, 2010
This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. While aggregation services such as Friendfeed potentially cut down on the manual effort of using the social Web, it’s still not mainstream despite being a good example of what’s possible. You’re not the only one.
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