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Diane Greene

08/09/17

@ Y Combinator

I co-founded and was the CEO of three startups, starting with V-Extreme in 1995, where we developed low bandwidth streaming video technology that was sold to Microsoft for $75 million in 1997.

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08/09/17

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My last startup, bbop, was founded in 2013 and sold to Google in 2015 for $380 million, with my portion of the proceeds committed to nonprofits through a donor-advised fund.