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813: AdTech: Scoota Raised $10m, $5m in Revenues, Looking at US Expansion for Programmatic Ad Platform

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James Booth. He’s the founder of Scoota and he founded it in 2008. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CEO of a company that led Europe’s rich media, providing infrastructure. He sold that to DoubleClick and Google back in 2007. He’s won numerous awards for his service to online advertising, an active Angel investor and a non-executive to a number of startups. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – Crossing the Chasm What CEO do you follow? – Joe Zawadzki, Jeff Green and Robert Grazioli Favorite online tool? — Gmail How many hours of sleep do you get?— 5 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – James hoped he knew the internet was coming   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:50 – Nathan introduces James to the show 02:21 – The company that James exited was Tangozebra 02:26 – They found the name by accident and in 1999, they couldn’t find a .com address 03:17 – It was initially bootstrapped and they eventually raised capital 03:49 – They had trouble articulating what they were doing