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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. North of the 101]. And the name to me speaks of clarity.

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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.

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