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Lloyd Armbrust

CEO at Ownlocal

BIO

Lloyd Armbrust has been working in around newspapers for over 15 years when he started as a circulation call-center manager for the Duluth News-Tribune. In 2001 he moved into online sales and then worked to built several newspaper websites from the ground up. Working for Morris Communications, he started one of the first video production departments at a newspaper in Nebraska and raised sales and user engagement by over 500%. In 2008, he started OwnLocal and in 2010 received funding from Y Combinator, Baseline Ventures, Lerer Media Ventures,the Knight Foundation, Automattic, Paul Buchheit and several other Angels.