How Startups Can Overcome Red Tape - Nima Ghamasari + Alex Rampell

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After graduating from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science, Nima joined Palantir in 2008 to lead Business Development for Hedge Fund clients. Nima later launched the commercial arm of Palantir, which focused on big data challenges for Fortune 100 clients. He is currently CEO at Blend Labs where he oversees overall product and business strategy.

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Alex Rampell is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, he was the CEO and cofounder of TrialPay, a leading transactional advertising and payments company serving digital goods and e-commerce clients such as Facebook, Zynga, and Gap, with 100 employees and over $300M in cumulative revenue. TrialPay was acquired by Visa in 2015. TrialPay also spun out another company, Yub, the first offline affiliate network, where Alex simultaneously served as CEO through its acquisition in late 2013 by Coupons.com.
Previously, Alex cofounded FraudEliminator, the first consumer anti-phishing company, which merged into SiteAdvisor and was acquired by McAfee for $75M in 2006. He has been a frequent writer on e-commerce and advertising topics for TechCrunch, and first coined the term "O2O" to refer to the growing category of Online-to-Offline commerce companies like Lyft and Groupon. Prior to joining the firm, Alex had been an active angel investor (Pinterest, Bloomreach, SiftScience, Wooga, and Twice, among many others) and served as an advisor to the SV Angel fund. He also co-founded three other companies: TXN, a survey and transactional data company; Point, a real estate marketplace; and Affirm, with Max Levchin.
He holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.

Alex serves on the board of the following Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies: Point, TXN, Affirm. He is also on the board of CashStar, a leading electronic gift card company, and KCG Holdings, Inc.

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