April 25th, 2012

Clipboard CEO Gary Flake On Privacy And The Pinterest-Esque Redesign

Gary Flake is a cool guy. He’s the CEO and founder of Clipboard, a web clipping service that lets you grab pieces of the Internet and save them in your own curated catalog of web-flavored goodies.

It’s quite intuitive, and as Robin Wauters said at launch time, it’s highly addictive. → Read More

November 7th, 2011

‘Web Clipping 2.0′ Startup Clipboard Backed By Andreessen Horowitz, Index, CrunchFund, Others (Invites)

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Today we take some time to dive into Clipboard, an intriguing new Web clipping and social bookmarking service started recently by Gary Flake, a former Overture executive who went on to found both Yahoo’s Research Labs and Microsoft’s Live Labs. We’ve also learned the names of the fledgling company’s many, top notch investors.

Clipboard aims to become the go-to service for saving and sharing… → Read More

April 25th, 2011

Microsoft, Yahoo Vet Starts Clipboard: "Social Media With A Purpose"

This morning, an SEC filing revealed that Gary Flake, a former Overture vet who went on to found both Yahoo Research Labs and Microsoft’s Live Labs, raised $1.39 million in funding for a stealthy new startup dubbed Clipboard (I’m not the only one who noticed).

Flake informed me that he wanted to avoid any publicity for now, but since Geekwire already posted on this: Flake is the sole founder of… → Read More