Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. So he founded … wait … CitySearch. Some IdeaLab successes / brand names aside from Overture & CitySearch? Shopping.com. The Wedding Channel.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 26, 2020
leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect. And all the platform stuff.
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Tech.Co
MARCH 5, 2015
Bill Gross started Idealab in 1996 to create and operate pioneering technology companies. CitySearch, now a part of IAC, established the category of local online community directories. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.
socalTECH
JUNE 1, 2015
Wi-Fi is now a lot more like cellular network technology, rather than a separate network. A convergence is happening, and it's thoroughly complementary rather than being competitive. technology could really do what we thought it could do. It was really both a big technology and business opportunity.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 5, 2011
It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 Imagine Apple without Steve Jobs.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
I’m just not sure you can build a great technology firm outside of Bay Area.&#. In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds who have a history of giving $20 million to early-stage technology companies hoping to swing for the fences and become the next Google, Facebook or Twitter. You just don’t. Get over it.
socalTECH
JULY 13, 2009
billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That's what I'm hoping to do.
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