Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I have three questions as you were relating that portion of the story. It sounds like this is an experimental period. Were you financing this period yourself? Yaron Galai: Yes. I did finance our early days. I also had a couple of our investors at Quigo. Sramana Mitra: The second question is the people

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Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You sold at the right time because after the iPhone and mobile advertising, the whole ad rate world just collapsed. Yaron Galai: Generally, it did. We sold at a very pretty good time. I do know that just by talking to a friend from AOL that they kept running Quigo as an independent

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: BlaBlaCar Expands Internationally with Acquisitions

There has been a surge of funding from VCs that has been driving the meteoric growth in valuation for car sharing firms including Uber and Lyft. I have my reservations on valuations of these companies. But then, there are companies like ride-sharing BlaBlaCar that have managed to enter the Billion Dollar Unicorn club while avoiding the

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Nutanix Gives VMWare Tough Competition

Today, most IT functions of organizations are moving away from siloed service providers to a consolidated services provider. This has led to the evolution of the hyperconverged infrastructure where compute and storage capabilities are integrated so that they can run adjacent to each other on the same physical hardware. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Nutanix is

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hortonworks Needs To Deliver Results

A Markets and Markets report on Hadoop estimates the total Hadoop market to grow 55% annually to be worth $13.95 billion by 2017. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Hortonworks is one successful player in this rapidly growing Hadoop market.