Gilad Elbaz

Factual

Guest

CEO and founder of Factual, a Santa Monica, California-based, large-scale data aggregation company that provides data to publishers and software developers for consumer web services; founder of Applied Semantics, which now serves as the basis of Google's AdSense business

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