Kevin & Dwight. Never had a fight!

That and other insights, like Kevin doesn’t plan on running for mayor.

 

Ex-Clicker back home.. 2 of them there actually – in the Philippines

Narciso Reyes is now leading Google’s Manila office – which just opened.  Eduardo Francisco continues to run the rich media operation, Wideout, from there as well.  I’m heading down that way in a few weeks, excited to see both of these guys and the growing businesses in the region.

Want to get caught up?

An unoriginal idea, but maybe a fun one.. I thought it would be cool to “catch up” with some DoubleClickers.. So I built a simple form and was hoping a few folks might let us know what’s up.. I’ll publish them on the site over time..

Complete here

 

Maxifier is maxing out price opt space

Well known that Yieldex is overflowing with ex-Clickers, but another interesting start-up, Maxifier, in a similar space, also now has a COO and CRO who are ex-Clickers (Tony Katsur & Denise Colella).  Good to see more shops sprouting up in this space and launched by ex-Clickers!

Rob Grossberg: Cross-Platform Gaming Startup TreSensa Locks Up $1 Million In Angel Funding, Launches SDK Into Beta – newsle

Once upon a time, Rob was a lawyer.  Now, sounds like he’s writing code.  Or at least having ideas which require code.  In any event, now that’s moved on from Tremor, sounds like an exciting development.  I know Tracy Otis and a few others remain at Tremor…

Rob Grossberg: Cross-Platform Gaming Startup TreSensa Locks Up $1 Million In Angel Funding, Launches SDK Into Beta – newsle.

Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

This one is chock full of Clickers!  Yes, it’s old, always playing catch up

Fall clicking over to Snnapse

Dave Fall and his company, Clickable, are getting bought by Syncapse, resulting in a cool new role for Dave – Congrats!

Launches and changes

BusOps alum, Steve Cohn, has a launch – http://www.irrive.com/site/team.  Go Steve.  I’ve been pinging with him for  early beta access, I’m confident I’m on the short list!

Some birds have left the roost, from marketing: Campbell Foster and Jon Nevitt.   With CAB coming in a few weeks, feels timely that they are leaving.

In other news, I had lunch with Tom Shields yesterday, founder of Yieldex, which now employs a handful of Thornton ex-Clickers.  Tom and Yieldex are doing great!

 

Huffington Post Names Former Spotify Engineer its CTO

Well, there goes the only person I knew at Spotify.  I did help get one  bug fixed when Pav was there.  Now I’ll have to pass him new tips?

Huffington Post Names Former Spotify Engineer its CTO.

yieldex and it’s roster of ex-clickere are hiring

They just added Andrew Rutledge to their ranks.. and there’s more!  Andrew is currently looking to hire Account Execs (NYC and SF) and Solutions Consultants (NYC) – and they can email him at arutledge {at} yieldex(.)com for more details.