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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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So it is a combination of markets and people. The contextual ad market was attractive. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. Why do you think Veoh didn’t succeed? (40:30 They had a great team and interesting technologies. Google Ad Sense was just getting going. 37:00-40:30).

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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One really great experience was a discussion I had with the camera rolling with my good friend Dmitry Shapiro who founded the major YouTube competitor of its time (Veoh) that was sued into oblivion by Universal and who also founded a social network designed to promote pseudonymity. Tech Market Analysis' Kill a fat person. So so funny.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media. READ MORE>>

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Capital

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What kinds of companies are you looking to invest in, when you say digital media--content, technology, or both? But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. Richard Yen: We're fairly broad in respect to digital media. READ MORE>>

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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PhoneTag uses a combination of technology and human translation and thus has a much better accuracy rate. Getting Rid of Folders - A friend of mine, Dmitry Shapiro (founder of Veoh), teaches a course called WeekendU. I argued that this would be the best product in the market because Google would continue to innovate.

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