Looking for Success Patterns with Founder of DoubleClick & FindTheBest – with Kevin O’Connor
I started this interview with the kind of focus you’ve come to expect from me, but then I found out what book Kevin O’Connor was reading and I ended up having a more philosophical discussion.
So you’ll get the “how he did it” story in this interview and find out how Kevin launched a company in his basement that ended up leading an industry. In 1995 he launched what became DoubleClick, Internet ad-technology company that was sold to Google in 2007 for $3.1 billion. And you’ll find out how he’s following it up with FindTheBest, a comparison engine which lets you compare smartphones, cigars and more.
But, because he’s been reading the biography of Andrew Carnegie, you’ll also hear us talk in a more general and philosophical way about how picking up on successful people’s patterns can influence you.
Not only does Kevin O’Connor thwart the misleading schemes of marketers, as CEO of FindTheBest, but he also runs the venture capital firm O’Connor Ventures where he invests in early stage companies.
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