Mark Cummins couldn’t get a job at Google…so he built a search engine so good that they acquired it
Today we’ve got an entrepreneur who created a search engine and sold it to Google about 18 months later. He took some time off and in his off time he invested in some companies, learned the other side of the entrepreneurial journey, and now he is back with a brand new business.
The previous company he created was called Plink. Imagine being able to take a picture of something with your phone and then finding out more about it. That’s the technology that Google acquired and merged it with the rest of their business.
His current company is called Pointy. What they do is they plug into a company’s barcode scanner, and as a result they know what’s in the store, what’s being sold, and they allow people who are interested in buying things locally to see available around them locally.
The founder who started about those companies is Mark Cummins. I’m happy to have him here to talk about how he did it and what he learned from building it.
Mark Cummins is the founder of Pointy which? lets ?local? ?retailers put their stock online so that they can be discovered via search engines.
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Today we’ve got an entrepreneur who created a search engine and sold it to Google about 18 months after launching. He took some time off and in his off time he invested in some companies, learned the other side of the entrepreneurial journey, and now he is back with a brand new business. So let’s get some more details on that quick overview.
The previous company that he created was called Plink. It created visual search engine. Imagine being able to take a picture of something with your phone and then finding out more about it. That’s the business that Google acquired and it took their technology and merged it in with the rest of their business.
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