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Matt Zelesko Recommends Being Very Cautious Taking Money For A Startup

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  • Date Added : 4/15/2011
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Matt Zelesko

  • CTO, Inform
  • male
  • Caucasian
  • 1971 (Age: 53 years old)
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Matt Zelesko is currently SVP, Technology at Time Warner Cable. At the time of this panel, he was the CTO at Inform Technologies. Inform is the leading developer of automated content solutions used by some of the web's most authoritative publishers including CNN, NBC Universal, and The Economist. Inform's applications use artificial intelligence to discern meaning and context. With this enhanced understanding, Inform drives new opportunities in content creation, curation and distribution. As CTO of Inform, Zelesko oversees the company's technology and operations.

Prior to Inform, Zelesko was CEO of Joost, the online aggregator of premium video entertainment. As CEO, he led the company through a successful acquisition by Adconion Media Group. Matt previously served as senior vice president of engineering responsible for Joost's global technology organization.

Matt Zelesko is a graduate of Cornell University.

I think, from an entrepreneur standpoint, you have to be careful in these climates because there's a strong incentive to take money, either because it's easy to get that money or because you see the impending bubble burst and you kind of want to hunker down and raise as much as you can right now. I...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 3 Matt Zelesko States Building a Business In New York City Enables You To Work With Changing Industries As They Evolve
  • Matt Zelesko - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Tech Entrepreneurship
  • 4/15/2011
  • Matt Zelesko
  • 0 min. 38 sec.
Video 2 of 3 Matt Zelesko Discusses Opportunities Presented By Huge Volume of Data Available
  • Matt Zelesko - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Tech Entrepreneurship
  • 4/15/2011
  • Matt Zelesko
  • 2 min. 43 sec.
Video 3 of 3 Matt Zelesko Recommends Being Very Cautious Taking Money For A Startup
  • Matt Zelesko - Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration 2011 Panel - Tech Entrepreneurship
  • 4/15/2011
  • Matt Zelesko
  • 0 min. 39 sec.

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