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Jun 22
2009

Questions for Tony Hsieh, Jeremiah Owyang, and Pete Flint Anyone?

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Posted by: Eric Wu on Jun 22, 2009 01:00

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As the NAA Conference nears, I've been thinking about questions the industry would want to ask Tony Hsieh, Jeremiah Owyang, and Pete Flint. Instead of guess what the space want to ask,

What would you want to ask Tony Hsieh, Jeremiah Owyang, and Pete Flint?

Put your questions in the comments below or email me at eric@rentwiki.com and I'll try to ask them during the Thought Leadership panel Saturday morning.

 

See you all this week!

 

About the Panelists:

Tony Hsieh Panelist #1 – Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com Tony Hsieh has grown Zappos.com from $1.6 million in 2000 to over a $1 billion in revenue in 2008. Before Zappos.com, Tony co-founded LinkExhange which he sold to Microsoft for $265 million. After LinkExchange, Tony founded a startup incubator called Venture Frogs, which invests in early stage startups.

 

 

 

 

 

Jeremiah Owyang Panelist #2 – Jeremiah Owyang, Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research Jeremiah Owyang is a senior analyst at Forrest Research and a leading expert on social computing, social media and interactive marketing. Jeremiah’s blog was ranked 19th by Advertising Age, he has consulted for large brands such as Hitachi Data Systems, and he is a speaker and educator at many conferences such as Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW and CES.

 

 

 

 

Pete Flint Panelist #3 – Pete Flint, Founder of Trulia.com Flint founded Trulia.com in 2005 and it now is one of largest and fastest growing real estate Web sites in the United States. Trulia.com has over 5 million unique visitors a month and has raised more than $33 million in funding. Prior to starting Trulia.com, Pete was part of the original launch team of lastminute.com, Europe’s largest online travel company where he was responsible for Interactive Marketing and Business Development. During his 5 years with the company he helped it to grow to more than 2,000 employees in 12 countries and over $1billion in annual transactions. The company was acquired by Travelocity in 2005 for more than $1.1 billion. Pete earned his Master's degree in Physics from the University of Oxford and his MBA from Stanford University.


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written by Jonathan Saar, June 23, 2009
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