Investor and entrepreneur Peng T. Ong is best known as the designer and co-founder of Match.com, the pioneering online dating service. He also started Interwoven, the content management software and services firm, which he led to a successful initial public offering. (Interwoven is now owned by the Hewlett-Packard company Autonomy.)
"When we did Match.com there was not any kind of stack for us to build on top of, no Java, so we built it all from scratch! Now you could put that together in a week, probably. This is totally changing how you get going in business-to-consumer sectors. Put it together. Try things out. Entrepreneurs are not just techies, now."
"Another beautiful reality is that the world has been opening up. In terms of financial impact, instead of looking at going to a $500 million market cap and saying “Wow, I covered the Americas,†you could go to a $3 billion or $4 billion dollar market cap and say “Wow, I covered the world.â€"
Q&A With Peng T. Ong, Co-Founder of Match.com - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
Edit: TIL that the founder of Match.com also founded Interwoven. When I was an entrepreneur rolling out Vignette-based CMA to business, I started seeing them ask about Interwoven. Pretty cool.
"When we did Match.com there was not any kind of stack for us to build on top of, no Java, so we built it all from scratch! Now you could put that together in a week, probably. This is totally changing how you get going in business-to-consumer sectors. Put it together. Try things out. Entrepreneurs are not just techies, now."
"Another beautiful reality is that the world has been opening up. In terms of financial impact, instead of looking at going to a $500 million market cap and saying “Wow, I covered the Americas,†you could go to a $3 billion or $4 billion dollar market cap and say “Wow, I covered the world.â€"
Q&A With Peng T. Ong, Co-Founder of Match.com - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
Edit: TIL that the founder of Match.com also founded Interwoven. When I was an entrepreneur rolling out Vignette-based CMA to business, I started seeing them ask about Interwoven. Pretty cool.
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