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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook Paul Ollinger is the West Coast Vice President of Sales for Facebook. He has also been a Regional Sales Director and National Account Director for Facebook. He has performed this role since the company’s inception after Yammer was spun-out of Geni Inc. (a

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07. We all know about IMDB.

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