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Meet Adalytics, An Asteroid Headed For Ad Tech

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For example, in 2011, Max Schrems was a law student on a semester abroad at Santa Clara University in California, near Facebook’s Menlo Park office. One […] The post Meet Adalytics, An Asteroid Headed For Ad Tech appeared first on AdExchanger.

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36. Ben Barokas – real-timing the supply side at AdMeld and Google

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He launched the company in 2015 after three years as GM of the Global Marketplace Development team at Google, which acquired his previous company, the pioneering supply-side platform (SSP) AdMeld, for a reported $400 million in 2011. Admeld team at the time of the Google acquisition (2011).

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7. Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan – raising the Drawbridge

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She founded Drawbridge in 2011 and was its well-known CEO for eight years, making the case — largely successfully — for the validity of probabilistic methods of determining identity in marketing and advertising, where 100% accuracy is not only not requisite but almost never possible.

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44. Shawn Riegsecker – getting to the Basis Technologies of Centro

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Shawn is the Founder and CEO of Basis Technologies , aka Centro, and a well-known figure on the ad tech circuit for two decades. Shawn is also the -two in our recent one-two punch of influential Chicago-based ad tech startups. In his spare time he’s an activist for all the right causes and an angel investor.

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Party at Smarty - Dress for It! We Are Turning 10 and It’s Awesome

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September 2011 - a time when SmartyAds first sprung to life as a small ad tech project in London. Now SmartyAds is a big company packed with talented ad tech. Anniversaries are a big deal! The world changed a great deal over the past 10 years and so we did.

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20. Ari Lewine – going native with TripleLift

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Ari is the co-founder, along with Eric Berry and Shaun Zacharia, of TripleLift , a programmatic ad platform that helps advertisers and publishers to do native advertising. Ari and his co-founders met at then-white-hot-DSP AppNexus (now Xandr), where Ari was a young account exec with a specialty in handling Israeli ad networks.

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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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