“What it was like to start my company in ’98 compared to now, it’s night and day,” said Gil Elbaz, an entrepreneur and investor. “Even in the last five years, it’s night and day.”
Elbaz moved from the Bay Area in 1997 to get away from the “noise” and launch a startup called Applied Semantics. He sold the company to Google (GOOG) in 2003 and was director of engineering at Google’s Santa Monica headquarters until 2007. He then went on to launch Factual, an open data platform — and started investing in startups as an angel investor. Over the past seven years, he’s invested in 75 startups before launching his own VC firm, TenOneTen, in 2013.
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