Applied Semantics
company on 3 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes · said 9 times in 6 episodes since 2016
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Friedberg: Applied Semantics founder Gil Elbaz was top-five Google IPO shareholder
“Applied Semantics, which was acquired by Google in 2003 or 2002, which became AdSense. The founders got equity in Google, and I think still may own a lot of it. And the founder ended up being one of the top five holders of Google stock when Google's IPO happen…”
Friedberg: Google's $100M acquisition of Applied Semantics built its revenue engine
“I left Google in in 2006, and a lot of the infrastructure that makes Google's you know, revenue engine was acquired. You know, we bought a company called Applied Semantics for a hundred million bucks, or a hundred something million dollars at the time which ul…”