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Erick Schonfeld
May 6th, 2011

Disrupting Display Advertising With Social, Mobile, And Beyond At Disrupt NYC

Brands may be pouring money back into online display advertising, but that doesn’t mean that display advertising works or won’t be replaced by something else in the next few years. Will it be social, mobile, or something else? At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, we’ll get into this debate with three of the best operators in online advertising: Facebook’s new VP of Global Advertising Carolyn Everson… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
April 14th, 2011

(Founder Stories) Mike Walrath: "It's A Pipe Dream" Brands "Will Move TV Budgets Online"

Mike Walrath spent his career at online advertising, first at Doubleclick and then at Right Media, where he was CEO before selling it to Yahoo for $850 million in 2007. Now he’s back in the game, investing his own money in startups and launching new ones. But he as an investor, he’s not putting money into ad tech startups. In the Founder Stories video above, he tells host Chris Dixon, “The… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
April 12th, 2011

(Founder Stories) How Mike Walrath Built Right Media And Sold It For $850 Million

One of the largest exits of a venture-backed company based on the East Coast was when Right Media sold to Yahoo for $850 million in 2007. In this episode of Founder Stories, Mike Walrath tells host Chris Dixon how Right Media got started in the middle of the online ad bust, lost its biggest customer and almost went out of business, just before it launched its eventual business idea of an online… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
April 9th, 2011

(Founder Stories) Right Media's Mike Walrath: "I Was Never Qualified For Any Job I Got In My Life"

Mike Walrath “was supposed to write novels.” Instead, he got int digital ad sales, started Right Media, which became an online ad exchange that he sold to Yahoo in 2007 for $850 million. In this Founder Stories video, he answers some rapid fire questions from host Chris Dixon about startup advice, hiring, and investing.

“Don’t try to solve a problem that you don’t fully understand,” he warns… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
March 18th, 2011

Right Media Founder Michael Walrath Becomes Chairman of Yext

Local advertising startup Yext has a new chairman, Michael Walrath. Walrath was the founder and CEO of Right Media, an online advertising exchange which he sold to Yahoo for $850 million in 2007. Since then he’s been investing and starting other projects. One of his biggest investments is Yext, where he is the largest individual shareholder outside the company.

Walrath became a board member of… → Read More