In the late ’90s, Bob Regular was helping build one of the earliest ad networks, complete with a…
In the late ’90s, Bob Regular was helping build one of the earliest ad networks, complete with a homegrown ad server and plenty of venture funding. Then the dot-com bubble burst. The Infolinks CEO describes what it felt like when everything he believed about the business turned out to be wrong almost overnight, and the three lessons he carried forward: the value of money, the difference between real and perceived value, and the importance of persistence. In the full episode, Bob draws parallels between that era and today’s AI gold rush and shares what keeps him coming back to ad tech after four exits.
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