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Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: | April 13th, 2007

DoubleClick and Kevin Ryan

I just read about DoubleClick being acquired for 3.1 billion by Google. Coincidentally I met Kevin Ryan, co-founder of DoubleClick, earlier today. These days he’s involved in several startups, he showed me a cool demo of one called ShopWiki. It’s a shopping search engine that indexes everything, not just paid feeds like Shopping.com does, and you can do cool stuff like search by color and neat range stuff.

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  • Joe Hunkins | Joe Duck | April 14th, 2007 @ 10:46 am | Reply

    Hey, what a cool guy. He’s very involved with human rights and international health. I really like to see folks like Ryan make good because they recognize that with wealth and success you can make the world a better place. Good for him.

  • Anthony | April 14th, 2007 @ 3:43 pm | Reply

    I love the interface of the SERPs pages at ShopWiki when you hover and see the available stores. Nice.

  • blabWire | April 15th, 2007 @ 4:06 am | Reply

    What an amazing deal! From what I’ve read, Google seemed to pick DoubleClick up to keep MS from getting it. Whatever works!

    blabEditor

  • Srebrni | April 15th, 2007 @ 7:51 am | Reply

    I think it would have been more interesting if we could learn what his position and opinion on the recent Google acquisition of DoubleClick is.

  • Jan Grønbech | April 16th, 2007 @ 12:40 am | Reply

    Hey Matt
    FYI, Kevin Ryan did not co-found DoubleClick. DCLK was founded by Kevin O’Connor and Dwight Merriman. Kevin Ryan came in later when they needed a seasoned CEO to run the business. Kind of like Larry and Sergey recruited Eric Schmidt, only in a slightly different world…. :)

    Cheers
    Jan Grønbech
    Oslo, Norway.
    (Ex-Managing Director, DoubleClick Norway)

  • Han | April 16th, 2007 @ 3:17 pm | Reply

    ooo I do like my colour searching! More ways for me to spend money! great!!

  • Art of Seduction | April 16th, 2007 @ 4:16 pm | Reply

    I like the shopwiki… especially the slider bar.
    That being said, it looks kinda like an amateur site design.

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