Congressman Jared Polis (TechStar, ProFlowers)

Washington DC
1776 - 1133 15th Street NW, 12th Floor Washington, 20005

Feb. 11, 2014, 6:30 p.m.

About this event

Congressman Jared Polis is the cofounder of TechStars, BlueMountain, and ProFlowers. A Democrat, Polis is the member of the United States House of Representatives for Colorado's 2nd congressional district, serving since 2009. He is a former member of the Colorado State Board of Education. Polis along with his parents founded BlueMountainArts.com, an online greeting card website, which he sold to Excite@Home three years later in a deal worth $780 million. In 1998, he launched the online florist company ProFlowers that expanded to become Provide Commerce, Inc., acquired in 2006 by Liberty Media Corporation.

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