Epiphany, Inc. (previous

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symbol: EPNY), previously known as E.piphany and Epiphany Marketing Software, was a company that developed

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(CRM) software. On September 29, 2005, Epiphany was acquired by

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. Epiphany CRM software is now produced by

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, which acquired SSA Global in 2006. Employees included: * founders

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, Ben Wegbreit, Greg Walsh, and John P. McCaskey; * chairman Roger Siboni; * CEO

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. * Craig Weissman, who led the database schema team at Epiphany, went on to become chief architect and CTO at Salesforce. * Scott Hansma, who led development for EpiCenter Manager and related pluralization technologies, went on to several high-level engineering roles at Salesforce, including Chief Architect * Sridhar Ramaswamy, in charge of customer data and relationships, eventually became VP of Ads at Google. * Ben Treynor and Boris Debic, who managed operations at Epiphany, continued to do so at Google in the roles of SRE Tzar and chief history officer respectively. *

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, one of the authors of the machine learning stack at Epiphany was also one of the creators of the ML technology which was in the foundation of the ads business at Google. * Jon Miller, Phil Fernandez, and David Morandi founded

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. * Jon Miller and Brian Babcock founded

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. * Andrew Bunner, lead defendant in DVD Copy Control Ass'n, Inc. v. Bunner. * George John, founder and CEO of

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Sahami (Stanford) and Boris Debic (ZSEM and Luxembourg School of Business) went on to teach artificial intelligence. Steve Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford and Columbia.

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