CHAPTER 49
BD AND SALES: ERIC FRIEDMAN
Key Notes
Name: Eric Friedman
Company: Foursquare
Role: Director of revenue and sales
Previous Companies: Union Square Ventures, MediaCom, Reprise Media
ERIC FRIEDMAN, currently director of sales and revenue at Foursquare, got his career start at the advertising behemoth MediaCom. He was immediately attracted to digital advertising and worked on an internal startup within MediaCom that allowed him to learn about the world of digital ads. He grew frustrated by the bureaucracy of a large company and began anonymously blogging about ideas that he had for disrupting the space.
He noticed a blog post for open positions at Union Square Ventures, one of New York City’s top-performing venture capital funds, and ...
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