Partnering with founders and teams to build generational technology companies in intelligent consumer and enterprise applications and AI infrastructure."The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were … and ask why not."-JFK, June 1963

Contextual AI's mission is to change the way the world works through artificial intelligence.

Reken is building a new type of AI platform and products to protect against generative AI threats.

Coactive AI is writing the next chapter in the Big Data movement with its Multimodal Application Platform for navigating oceans of unstructured data and bringing the full power of analytics to image and video content.

Blockchain.com is relentlessly building a new financial system for the Internet as a world leading crypto finance house.

Scopely's mission is to inspire play, every day. Scopely's acquisition by Savvy Games Group for $4.9Bn was completed on July 12, 2023.

Our Mission: Inspiring a new generation of consumers to think secondhand first.Nasdaq: TDUP, March 2021

Representative transactions:$28Bn Sale of LinkedIn to Microsoft$4Bn Sale of Honey to PayPal$2.6Bn Sale of OpenTable to Priceline$1.7Bn Sale of Orbitz to Expedia$1.2Bn Sale of Glassdoor to Recruit Holdings$1Bn Sale of Ebates to Rakuten$630MM sale of RetailMeNot to Harland Clarke Holdings$550MM Sale of Shipt to TargetSale of Tubi to FOX$475MM Sale of myfitnesspal to Under ArmourSale of Flurry to Yahoo!Merger of Elance and oDesk (Upwork)

IDD 40 Under 40, 2010Representative M&A:$3.7Bn minority buy-out of Expedia by InterActiveCorp$2.3Bn of eBay acquisitions (Gmarket, Internet Auction Co., mobile.de, Rent.com)$1.8Bn sale of CNET to CBS Corporation$1.1Bn sale of Zappos to Amazon (IDD 2009 Technology Deal of the Year)Sale of Tellme to Microsoft$750MM sale of Admob to Google$684MM acquisition of JAMDAT by Electronic Arts$500MM acquisition of Quidsi (Diapers.com) by Amazon$100MM investment into Homestore by Elevation PartnersY9.5Bn sale of Intuit KK to Advantage PartnersRepresentative financings:Facebook $16Bn initial public offeringAmazon $3.0Bn investment grade debt IPOGoogle $1.9Bn initial public offeringGoogle $4.4Bn follow-on offeringAlibaba.com $1.5Bn initial public offeringSAIC $1.3Bn initial public offeringSAIC $300MM debt offeringYandex $1.3Bn initial public offeringZynga $1Bn initial public offeringZynga $593MM follow-on offeringLinkedIn $406MM initial public offeringLinkedIn $714MM follow-on offeringPandora $235MM initial public offeringGreen Dot $189MM initial public offeringGreen Dot $260MM follow-on offeringeHealth $80.5M initial public offeringGoogle Transferable Stock Option ProgramBloom Energy investment

Managed product strategy and design for Yahoo's wireless messaging productsLed team of engineering, GUI, marketing, business development and PR to define, develop, deliver and promote Yahoo's instant messenger and mail applications for mobile devicesLed SMS strategic initiative and created Yahoo's first offering of interactive SMS products and services, including Yahoo Messenger for SMSManaged strategic product development efforts with network operators and device manufacturers

Led cross-functional team of engineers, network planners and product directors to measure and improve the profitability of private suite and cabinet co-location productsEvaluated acquisitions of co-location facilities totaling $1 billion

Telecommunications Investment BankingCompleted 10 transactions totaling over $45 billion:Cincinnati Bell $154MM follow-on offeringCincinnati Bell $223MM DECS offeringGlobal Crossing $400MM initial public offeringGlobal Crossing $800MM high yield offeringMetromedia Fiber Network $150MM initial public offeringMJD Communications $200MM debt offeringsSNET $6.7Bn sale to SBCWinStar $200MM convertible preferred stock offeringWinStar $450MM high yield offeringWorldcom $37Bn acquisition of MCI

Valuation Services Group:-Prepared strategic analysis of Sprint's long distance, wireless and local divisions-Assisted AT&T with its restructuring into three separate companies