VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Until now, to succeed in search companies needed two things: 1) an index of the web 2) an algorithm to organise the results. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

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Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Estrin has hired numerous engineers over her career, but has found, to no surprise, that it is "harder to find technical women , especially in computer science.

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CTO Hire Startup Algorithm Leadership 118

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

A few months later the first mp3 search engines start to pop up. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads).

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Developer Algorithm Search Web 31

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. On the other hand, Silicon Valley is a whole lot smarter, focusing on a team of programmers that have developed a compression algorithm to help songwriters determine whether or not their work has infringed on other’s copyright. Sold to Yahoo! The startup’s name? Pied Piper.

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Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

Steve Jobs famously said in a 1998 BusinessWeek interview: “It’s really hard to design products by focus group. Google is known as a data driven company – everything from its early hiring process to decision making shows its reliance on data.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Acquisition 94

BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

It used proprietary computer driven models (think sexy algorithms) to find miniscule misprincings in markets and would use leverage and derivatives to exploit those mispricings. is driven by an incredible proprietary algorithm, and is by far the best web company on the street and performing like a rock star.

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NDA Algorithm Equity Hiring 60