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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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Mike built a white label product that let large publishers leverage text based ads by building their own marketplace rather than using Ad Words. What’s your point of view on next generation video entertainment? (34:30 Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Capital

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Haim's background is in media and the entertainment industry, for several decades. For example, our existing portfolio is content related--Next New Networks, which is in online video, creating content for super distribution on multiple sites like YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video, Veoh, and others--happens to be a content company.

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