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MAY 12, 2015

Santa Monica-based car buying and selling marketplacce TrueCar says that more than half of the consumers coming to the service are now using either a smartphone or tablet. According to TrueCar, it saw more than 2.2 million downloads of its mobile app on iOS and Android as of the first quarter of 2015. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Santa Monica-based NextCar, the newest automotive-focused startup led by startup veteran Scott Painter, is gearing up for the launch of the company, saying this week that it has named a senior management team. NextCar (NXCR) is focused on providing vehicle subscriptions to consumers.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the car pricing startup headed by Scott Painter, has announced a new product today, focused on used vehicle pricing. TrueCar said its ClearBook service is expected to launch by the end of the year. Tags: truecar used automobile pricing index purchase dealer marketplace. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz. Tags: truecar vehicle pricing data prediction software automobile. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 1, 2009

Santa Monica-based TrueCar announced today that it has snagged an executive from Edmunds.com for its new Vice President of Product Management. TrueCar is a car pricing site which was spun out of automotive software firm Zag; the firm is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Global Retail Partners, and Capricorn.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The company said it added Jay Trinidad as the company's Chief Product Officer, Pat Wilkinson as its GM of Exclusive Uber Program, and John Pierantoni as SVP of Finance and Risk. Painter is the former CEO and founder of TrueCar, and has a long background in starting and funding technology companies in Southern California.

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APRIL 1, 2014

TrueCar is the first ever Internet service that tells you exactly how much other people in your area paid for the car you want to buy. More Americans buy cars through TrueCar (Upfront is a large investor through my partner Steven Dietz ) than any other place by a long shot. ” The next step is the industry tries to fight back.

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JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Palantir’s products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets. And it carries no inventory.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Los Angeles-based MANDT VR , an augmented reality and virtual reality production company, said on Thursday that it has named Mike Dunn as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Mandt was most recently CIO at VER, and also had previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Time Warner, Hearst Interactive Media and TrueCar.

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JUNE 12, 2018

Devesa was most previously Head of Innovation at Farmers Insurance, where Phyn said she oversaw the development of business relationships, product and offering implementations. Among the efforts she was involved in at Farmers were partnerships with Uber, Tesloop, TrueCar and others and developing coverage or rideshare drivers.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site run by Scott Painter, said today that it has named Stephen Hansen as the firm's new President and COO. Hansen reports to Painter, and will head up strategic planning, product and technology development, and marketing, among other duties. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 27, 2013

GRP Partners--which has invested in such successes as Overture, CitySearch, BillMeLater, DealerTrack, and others, and is currently an investor in Maker Studios, TrueCar, Burstly, and others--said it decided to change its branding as venture capital has changed. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

We believe that there is momentum in the container storage application marketplace, and that this will create a paradigm shift in how developers create new products - similar to when many companies shifted from hard IT infrastructure to the cloud.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures).

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Yesterday, we heard from Scott Painter of TrueCar. I am looking at low cost video production and distribution, and I'm looking at new models of consumer consumption of video. Today, we spoke with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The IPO of EnvestNet.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2014

Presenting companies included: Add This, Cognitive Networks, TrueCar, Trunk Club, Invidi, ID.me, Datacratic, BeyondCORE, ParkMe and many more. The Summit also served as a launch pad for new products and branding from companies such as Bling Fashion Jewelry, Song Lily, TrailerPop and FilmTrack.

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APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking.

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MARCH 17, 2010

If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP Partners). So it’s always a trade-off. In content creation we definitely have assets other markets don’t have.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. What kind of customers are using the tool? Jeff Zwelling: Today, we have lots of e-commerce and online subscription customers. I grew up here.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. And then the world changed. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Partners provided products and services including: Uber, Here on Biz, ParkMe, Simply Petals, Triptrotting, Bloodhound, Planana, Pop-Up Pantry, EventSorbet, ROC, Startup Car, Pulsoviral, TrueCar, PopChips, ONE Coconut water, Gamer Food, Zevia. Most of the speakers launched their startups with $2-7K. B each Games.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

While nobody has yet “cracked the code&# on production quality video over the Internet (YouTube won UGC video), there is a lot of innovation happening in LA from places like Eqal, Deca.TV, ThisWeekIn, Machinima & Maker Studios. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners).

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JANUARY 16, 2012

As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. I get many Tweets directed at me that say, “come check out my product.” Meet in person.

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