Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Since leaving GrubHub, he founded Fixer.com, an on-demand handyperson service focused on social impact. He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike. 7:52] Was there competition that you had to buy up, and/or what type of acquisitions did you feel like you had to make? [9:19] Yeah, that's true.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. Navigating the cumbersome processes associated with my father’s tragic cancer diagnosis and treatments, I drew on my deep experience in design, user research, software engineering and data analysis and turned my entrepreneurial attention to healthcare.

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