That may be one reason, but the guy's responsible for Express, Jade, Mocha, Commander, and many others. I honestly thought visionmedia was a company until a few months ago.
Following the link for "Financial Services Company" turns up Current a company with 1-50 employees in NY founded 2015. So it is anonymous but the company is referenced. It doesn't read like FUD or shallow negativity.
I could only find this. So it's definitely a different company.
> Paragon Solutions doesn’t have a website. There’s very little information at all about them online, even if the Tel Aviv-based smartphone surveillance startup’s employees are all over LinkedIn, more than 50 of them. That’s not a bad headcount for a company that’s still in stealth mode.
Correct I was wrong, Mark is the CTO of the parent company who in their own copy describes "LONDON TRUST MEDIA, Inc. is the world's first privacy and security focused accelerator and owners/operators of Private Internet Access, the world's leader in privacy online."
Where'd you find that? I found some LinkedIn and G+ profiles that gave no info, and everything else I found suggested that they sold their first company (CadZooks) to Autodesk and then started @Last, but otherwise had no relation to them.
the application that Vogt himself submitted to Y Combinator described repeatedly that Guillory was a founder of Cruise Automation and states unequivocally in response to a question asking “who are the shareholders and what percent does each own?” that “Cruise Automation is a Delaware C Corporation created in September 2013. 50/50 split between Kyle and Jeremy."
If true, that could be worth hundreds of millions, which is an even larger amount of money to walk away from.
The folks behind this advertising platform is much more of a Matryoshka doll though. Briefly, the history is that the contract to replace the pay phone kiosks was awarded to a consortium called CityBridge which consisted of Titan, Qualcomm, Comark and Control Group. Control Group and Titan then merged to form a company called Intersection. The lead investor in Intersection was Sidewalk Labs aka Alphabet aka Google. The CEO of of Sidewalk Labs is Daniel Doctoroff who was the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding under NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg. As always follow the money.
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