Serial Entrepreneurship in Ad and Content Networks: inPowered CEO Peyman Nilforoush (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What channels are most of your content distributed on? Is it social media? Is it Facebook? Peyman Nilforoush: We assumed the same thing, that most of it will be on Facebook. However, it’s very specific to the kind of content. For example, we have a lot of B2B clients. A lot of times

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Serial Entrepreneurship in Ad and Content Networks: inPowered CEO Peyman Nilforoush (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are you talking about the category that Outbrain and Taboola have been in? Peyman Nilforoush: They are the ad networks.  Sramana Mitra: They were in the business of propagating and pushing content.

Serial Entrepreneurship in Ad and Content Networks: inPowered CEO Peyman Nilforoush (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the name of your ad network? Peyman Nilforoush: NetShelter.  Sramana Mitra: What years were these? Peyman Nilforoush: From late 1999 to 2008. In 2008, we raised $26 million in venture capital. We moved to San Francisco in 2009 and started building out the company and scaling it out. We ended up

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Serial Entrepreneurship in Ad and Content Networks: inPowered CEO Peyman Nilforoush (Part 1)

Peyman has done two startups in the ad network and content network field, and this discussion takes us through that journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?