TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. We have many shared business philosophies and complementary know-how.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

And it’s because the incumbents have no reason to fundamentally change.”. Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5 While it’s early days yet, only time will tell if Tomo can live up to its lofty goals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 19, 2013

I started working in ad tech in 2005 and during the past eight years, the ad tech ecosystem has progressively become more sophisticated, competitive and oligopolistic. It’s hard to innovate in ad tech. Over a few years, each of these companies built liquidity into their market places and now are the leaders in their segments.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. So if you are then I have to ask myself, “What are the incumbents going to do when you grow?”

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