Jared Kopf
Ages: 29
Company: Adroll
Funding: Undisclosed
Drumroll for Adroll, please. Due to go public within weeks, Kopf's latest venture—now in stealth mode—is an online-advertising clearinghouse, helping companies place ads on the sites where they will have the most impact. If that sounds a lot like Google's AdWords and Microsoft's adCenter, it is. And while Kopf says his technology can be used alongside those services, he also contends Adroll “is going to be somewhat disruptive.” Kopf has already done his share of disrupting techdom. With PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Kopf started Clarium Capital, a hedge fund. Kopf also co-founded photo-sharing site Slide.com and led investments in Friendster.com and LinkedIn for The Founders Fund.
Lesson learned: “Try to figure out what the absolute coolest thing to do is, because cool as a condition brings employees and investors,” says Kopf. “Cool makes every day worthwhile.”
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