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Thuzio
Thuzio is a sports media and events company that produces a weekly, live-sports interview show for a members-only audience. History Thuzio was founded in 2012 by Tiki Barber (New York Giants), Mark Gerson ( GLG), and Jared Augustine (GrubHub/ Seamless). Thuzio's Board of Advisors includes Matthew Higgins, CEO of RSE Ventures; Michael Weisman, Emmy Award-winning producer and executive in charge of production for “Football Night in America”; Thomas J. Laffont, Senior Analyst at Coatue Management and Partner at Coatue Management; Jordan Bazant, principal at The Legacy Agency; Casey Coffman, advisor at Carpere Group; Billy Nash, senior vice president at UBS; Jason Freier, chairman and CEO of Hardball Capital. Thuzio received $1.5 million in venture capital in July 2012. RSE Ventures invested $2.56 million in January 2013. In 2014, the company raised another $6 million in Series A funding. On November 22, 2021, Thuzio was acquired by TrillerNet Triller, Inc is an American co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Gerson
Mark Gerson is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He co-founded the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) and Thuzio. Gerson is also involved in philanthropic organizations African Mission Healthcare Foundation and United Hatzalah. Gerson grew up in the Short Hills neighborhood of Millburn, New Jersey and attended Millburn High School. He received a BA from Williams College and a JD from Yale Law School. Business Gerson and fellow Yale Law School graduate Thomas Lehrman founded the Gerson Lehrman Group in 1998. Gerson Lehrman group, otherwise known as GLG, is a peer to peer business learning company. GLG is a knowledge brokerage and primary research firm with a stated membership-based platform of more than 600,000 independent consultants. Gerson also co-founded Thuzio, a professional booking marketplace, with former NFL player Tiki Barber, and Create, a venture studio. Gerson helped found the Tel Aviv Angel Group which invested in early stage Israeli startups and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triller (company)
Triller, Inc is an American company specializing in online video platform, online video, social media, and combat sports. It is named after, and is the owner of, the epynomous social networking service Triller (app), Triller; which was launched in 2015 by co-founders David Leiberman and Sammy Rubin. History On March 9, 2021, Triller acquired Verzuz. On April 14, 2021, Triller acquired video streaming service FITE TV, and customer engagement service Amplify.at. On November 22, 2021, Triller acquired influencer event firm Thuzio. On December 22, 2021, Triller announced its intention to merge with SeaChange International and go public. Under the terms of the deal, Triller shareholders would own at least 97.7% of the combined company. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022. It was later announced that the combined entity would be renamed TrillerVerz Company upon the merger's closure. On June 14, 2022 it was reported that Triller would back out of the mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TrillerNet
Triller, Inc is an American company specializing in online video, social media, and combat sports. It is named after, and is the owner of, the epynomous social networking service Triller; which was launched in 2015 by co-founders David Leiberman and Sammy Rubin. History On March 9, 2021, Triller acquired Verzuz. On April 14, 2021, Triller acquired video streaming service FITE TV, and customer engagement service Amplify.at. On November 22, 2021, Triller acquired influencer event firm Thuzio. On December 22, 2021, Triller announced its intention to merge with SeaChange International and go public. Under the terms of the deal, Triller shareholders would own at least 97.7% of the combined company. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022. It was later announced that the combined entity would be renamed TrillerVerz Company upon the merger's closure. On June 14, 2022 it was reported that Triller would back out of the merger with SeaChange in order to pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiki Barber
Atiim Kiambu "Tiki" Barber (; born April 7, 1975) is an American former football running back who played for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons. He played college football for the University of Virginia. Barber was drafted by the Giants in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft, and played his entire professional career for the team. Barber retired from the NFL at the end of the 2006 NFL postseason as the Giants' all-time rushing and reception leader. Barber was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2011. Following his playing career, Barber became a national media presence, notably joining NBC's ''The Today Show'' as a correspondent in 2007 and ''Football Night in America/ Sunday Night Football''.Associated PressBarber to appear on 'Today,' NBC football''ESPN.com'', February 12, 2007. He has published multiple books. He is the identical twin brother of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback and safety Ronde Barber. Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Higgins (businessman)
Matt Higgins (born 1974) is an American businessman, author, and the co-founder and CEO of RSE Ventures, a private investment firm that focuses on sports and entertainment, media and marketing, food and lifestyle, and technology. In 2012, Higgins co-founded RSE with Stephen M. Ross, the founder of Related Companies and owner of the Miami Dolphins. Higgins served as Vice Chairman of the Dolphins from 2012-2021, having previously been a high-level executive with the New York Jets. His first book, ''Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential'' will be published by William Morrow in 2023. Early life Higgins was born in Flushing and grew up in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens, New York City. He is of Irish descent. After growing up in abject poverty and taking care of his ailing mother, Higgins decided to drop out of high school at age 16, obtain his equivalency diploma and enroll at Queens College, where he took night classes and graduated with a polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerson Lehrman Group
GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.) is a financial and global information services company headquartered in New York City. The company provides financial information and advises investors and consultants with business clients seeking expert advice. It is the world's largest expert network, with over 1,000,000 freelance consultants. GLG's experts include asset managers, investors, consultants, physicians, scientists, engineers, lawyers, senior current and former c-level executives, and former government members. GLG's clients include strategy consulting corporations, hedge funds, private equity firms, professional service firms, and non-profit organizations. The firm was founded in 1998 and has been backed by private equity firms Silver Lake Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and SFW Capital Partners. GLG is headquartered in New York City, with offices in 22 cities in 12 countries. History Gerson Lehrman Group was founded by Yale Law School graduates Mark Gerson and Thomas Lehrman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grubhub
Grubhub Inc. is an American online and mobile prepared food ordering and delivery platform. The company is based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 2004, it is a subsidiary of the Dutch company Just Eat Takeaway since 2021. Grubhub has been criticized for antitrust price manipulation, listing restaurants without permission, and allegedly misclassifying workers. Grubhub Seamless went public in April 2014 and was traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "GRUB". As of 2019, the company had 19.9 million active users and 115,000 associated restaurants across 3,200 cities and all 50 states in the United States. History Grubhub history The original Chicago-based Grubhub was founded in 2004 by Mike Evans and Matt Maloney to create an alternative to paper menus. Two years later, in 2006, Maloney and Evans won first place in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business's Edward L. Kaplan New Venture Challenge with the business plan for Grubhub. In No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seamless (company)
Seamless North America LLC (formerly SeamlessWeb) is an online food ordering service that allows users to order food for delivery and takeout from restaurants through their web site or suite of mobile apps. History Seamless was launched in 1999 by Jason Finger, Paul Appelbaum, Todd Arky and Andy Appelbaum as SeamlessWeb, providing companies with a web-based system for ordering food from restaurants and caterers. Starting in 2005, Seamless was made available to the individual users and they currently partner with over 12,000 restaurants, serve over 4,000 companies, and have over 2,000,000 members in the United States and in London. The service is available for personal orders in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Miami, Chicago, Houston, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London. They were acquired by Aramark in April 2006. On June 8, 2011, Spectrum Equity Investors made a $50 million minority investment in Seamless and the company was spun out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coatue Management
Coatue is an American technology-focused investment manager led by founder and portfolio manager Philippe Laffont. Coatue invests in public and private markets with a focus on technology, media, telecommunications. the consumer and healthcare sectors. Coatue has offices in New York City, Menlo Park, California, London, Shanghai and Hong Kong. History Philippe Laffont graduated from MIT in 1991 in computer science. He worked as an analyst for McKinsey & Company from 1992 to 1994 in Madrid, Spain. After working as an independent consultant, he joined Tiger Management LLC as a research analyst in 1996, focusing on telecommunications stocks. In 1999, Laffont founded Coatue making him a member of the Tiger Cubs employees who founded their own hedge funds. Coatue launched its first hedge fund in 1999 with $45 million in capital. Coatue manages this fund in addition to others. Thomas Laffont is the firm’s co-founder and leads Coatue’s private equity investing. Coatue's annual "Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Capital
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to start-up company, startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for Equity (finance), equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky Startup company, start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because Startup company, startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovation, innovative technology or business model and they are usually from high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology. The typical venture c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
