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Activision Fires CFO

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No details of exactly what triggered the termination were announced, however, reports say that Neumann may have been hired away by Netflix. According to Activision, the move is "unrelated to the Company's financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures. " Durkin had been CFO of the company from March 2012 until May of 2017.

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Reflections on 2018: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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2018 was a great year for TVC Capital and we were able to get our fourth growth equity fund closed, taking our assets under management to close to $400 million. Jeb Spencer is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TVC Capital , a growth equity firm focused on the investment in and acquisition of business critical software companies.

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Interview with Michael Greenberg, Retina

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We were acquired in 2014 by Summit Partners, and I ended up in private equity, post-acquisition at Summit Partners. I will say, is that private equity was almost like my MBA, in that it taught me how to scale a business efficiently. Coming from private equity, it's given me a way to look at this problem from outside the echo chamber.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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Bauckhage talks about the firm's recent funding from DFJ Espirit, T-Venture, Grazia Equity, and others, and how the company has been helping studios like Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Disney and Paramount market their upcoming releases. In the last four years, we built Moviepilot.de, which is like Yahoo Movies or Netflix on steroids.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

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Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. We're privately funded today, with some equity from Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast.

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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It has just been released to wide audiences November 2010 – mostly in response to the growing popularity of Netflix and ironically the introduction of the ABC.com player on the iPad. I would reduce my equity stake much further. Hulu Plus now allows you to get a more extensive “catalog&# for $10 / month.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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equity debate. Example: Netflix). Converts versus equity deals - Chris Dixon , August 31, 2010 There has been a debate going on the past few days over whether seed deals should be funded using equity or convertible notes (converts). It’s an interesting data point on Y-Combinator companies, but is this truly a macro trend?

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