AOL

“But I would argue that Verizon buying Yahoo is a smart move that does advance them towards a clear, clear strategic objective, given the fact that, that Verizon had already bought AOL and had announced an objective of making AOL into the leader in consumer ori…”

“We raised close to three million dollars to date. Mostly angel investors. We have a group of ex-Microsoft executives who's led their angel round. And then we have AOL, Verizon Ventures joined that round.”

“You know, we have the former COO of AOL is, is one of our investors.”

“So it was a long process. It took us, I think, nine months.”

“More than one third of the use case for Crunchbase, the lookup use case, original Crunchbase use case, We're not investors. We're salespeople. They were using Crunchbase for prospecting, and that's what got us excited. One-third was HR-related, people in the r…”

“So we invested seven million dollars.”

“Over the last couple of years, we rebuilt everything to make it scalable, because it was a great asset when it comes to data, not necessarily a great asset when it comes to software architecture, and also when it comes to business model.”

“So when we spun it out of AOL, we had the thesis that we could create a next gen B to B database. So think of next gen Dan and Bradstreet with a much more efficient and organic data acquisition model. So think of LinkedIn, but for companies instead of for peop…”

“You know, 20 years ago, the Tribune invested in AOL, and that funded, you know, 20 years of innovation for the Tribune company until that money ran out. And they caved.”

“Adapt TV also raised money. I think it totally raised forty eight million dollars and that was acquired by AOL for about 400 and something million dollars.”