Heroes - Kevin O’Conner, Founder of DoubleClick
Every Wednesday, I’ll post about someone I admire in business for their innovation, leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, or ability to inspire us to achieve things we’d never dare dream of accomplishing. These are people you should know about.
Although considered a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist now, his greatest contribution to the Internet space is as Founder of DoubleClick. He hatched this idea in the basement of his Alpharetta, Georgia home along with Dwight Merriman. DoubleClick was originally a media network, which bought and sold online ad space for publishers, but with their innovative adserver technology named DART, they sold the media division to Avenue A/Razor Fish and focused on being the leader in the adserving industry.
I worked at DoubleClick for four years after the dot com bubble burst. It was a great learning experience and I wrote about it on the About page.
What I really love about the early DoubleClick story is it was started in a basement in Georgia and grew to be a giant in Silicon Alley. Just goes to prove that great ideas cannot be stopped if passionate people are behind it.
Kevin Ryan on DoubleClick, Google and the coming recession
With Google getting the thumbs up from The European Union to proceed with the DoubleClick acquisition, I thought this would compliment that story. This is such a great video interview with Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick who road the wave from start up to everything is going right to everything is going wrong. It’s all about Google and how they can ride the wave in a recession. He has some really interesting things to say, and frankly I think as Google’s stock price falls over the next few months, that’s the time to buy because they are going to have a huge market share when the recession ends.
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