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Internet Brands Brisco: Deal Will Allow More Focus On Long Term Growth

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The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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You know Zag, herein town, and more recently our new car investment, TrueCar. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. If you look at one of the subsectors of retail, the auto industry, we've been making bets into revolutionizing the auto industry. That's what I'm hoping to do.