Michael Rubenstein

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Firsthand · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Rubenstein is best known as the longtime President and board member of AppNexus, helping scale the company to its $1.6 billion acquisition by AT&T. Earlier, he founded and led the DoubleClick Ad Exchange, and later co-founded OpenStore and AI brand-agent startup Firsthand.

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2 assertions · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
AppNexus acquired WPP's tech assets and powers its digital media buying
“We acquired their technology assets, they made an investment in our company, and today our technology powers the digital buying of the largest ad agency on earth.”
Michael Rubenstein Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 2:38 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

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Assertion Supported
AppNexus acquired WPP's tech assets and powers its digital media buying
“We acquired their technology assets, they made an investment in our company, and today our technology powers the digital buying of the largest ad agency on earth.”
Michael Rubenstein Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 2:38 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Assertion Not checkable as stated
AppNexus processes over 100 terabytes of data daily
“To a company today that's processing over a hundred terabytes of data daily and has got massive internet scale.”
Michael Rubenstein Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 0:27 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014
Disclosure
AppNexus has raised around $250 million in venture capital
“We haven't quite raised three hundred million, but we've raised almost that much, around two hundred fifty million dollars, so a lot of venture capital”
Michael Rubenstein Nov 20, 2014 ▶ 3:43 Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Michael Rubenstein and Catherine Williams, App Nexus // Data Driven #31 // Nov 2014 Nov 20, 2014 4m
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