Talmon Marco is an

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entrepreneur, best known as the founder of

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, founder and former

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, a proprietary cross-platform

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application for

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s, and

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, a ride sharing service.

Career

Born in Israel, Marco served as CIO for the

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Central Command. He completed a degree in Computer Science and Management from Tel-Aviv University, later moving to the U.S. where he spent most of his adult life. In 1997 he co-founded

Expand Networks Expand Networks, Ltd. was a Tel Aviv, Israel based provider of WAN optimization technology founded in 1998 and liquidated in 2011. About Expand Networks was a privately held company, co-founded by Talmon Marco in 1998; initial financing was pr ...

and served as the company's President until 2004. In 1998, Marco co-founded iMesh, where he was President until 2010. In 2010 he co-founded Viber with Igor Magazinik, a friend from the Israel Defense Forces, and served as its CEO. In 2014, Rakuten acquired the company for $900,000,000. In 2016, he founded

, a ride-sharing app. In 2017,

Gett Gett, previously known as GetTaxi, is an Israeli B2B Ground Transportation Management (GTM) platform and marketplace, and B2C ride-hailing app headquartered in London, and owned by GT GetTaxi (UK) Limited Founded in 2010, Gett has raised mor ...

acquired the company for $200,000,000.

References

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