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.
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