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30. Dave Zinman – on the first ad server, BlueLithium and beyond

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Dave co-founded a company while at Stanford Business School that built the first demand-side ad server, and he later went on to develop products at pioneering powerhouses such as BlueLithium, Yahoo, InfoLinks and Drawbridge. In 2006, Dave joined the team as SVP/GM at BlueLithium, a high-flying ad network. ”

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30. Dave Zinman – on the first ad server, BlueLithium and beyond

Paleo AdTech

Dave co-founded a company while at Stanford Business School that built the first demand-side ad server, and he later went on to develop products at pioneering powerhouses such as BlueLithium, Yahoo, InfoLinks and Drawbridge. Mango, the tropically-named motherboard for FocaLink’s proto-ad server. ”

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22. Michael Provenzano – issuing an Invite (Media) to Google

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He and co-founders Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg met in an entrepreneur’s club in college, and Nat was inspired by a summer internship at pioneering video ad network VideoEgg to build a dynamic-creative ad platform. Presumably little of the original code remains, but the ROI on the original Invite investment is staggering.

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43. Matt Spiegel – making a Resolution (Media) for search

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Matt worked at the LA-based ad network L90 and then in DRTV before co-founding the pioneering search agency Resolution Media in Chicago in 2003. Leaving Omnicom in 2011, he joined gaming ad tech startup Tap.Me He recalls: “This was essentially a new form of response-driven advertising.

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29. Bill Urschel – the captain of Ad:ECN, the first exchange

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The original idea was simply to automate the manual process of buying and selling inventory on ad networks. Urschel and Green found some success with their auction model for ad networks in the U.K., a smaller market, and eventually signed up 39 ad networks as members of its ad network-only exchange, charging a flat fee.

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43. Matt Spiegel – making a Resolution (Media) for search

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Matt worked at the LA-based ad network L90 and then in DRTV before co-founding the pioneering search agency Resolution Media in Chicago in 2003. Leaving Omnicom in 2011, he joined gaming ad tech startup Tap.Me He recalls: “This was essentially a new form of response-driven advertising.

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22. Michael Provenzano – issuing an Invite (Media) to Google

Paleo AdTech

He and co-founders Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg met in an entrepreneur’s club in college, and Nat was inspired by a summer internship at pioneering video ad network VideoEgg to build a dynamic-creative ad platform. Presumably little of the original code remains, but the ROI on the original Invite investment is staggering.

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