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Rick Skrenta
CEO at Blekko
BIO
Developed and launched a new web search engine with a 1 billion page index focused on fighting web spam. Served over 300 million searches per month to consumers and partners. Drove monetization through experiments and incremental improvements. Recruited team and lead technology development. Raised over $60 million from investors. Lead the technical architecture for a novel distributed key-value store with real-time map/reduce capability and developed the web-scale crawler. Blekko was acquired by IBM Watson.
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