Barry Glick (Founder of MapQuest acq by AOL for $1.1B)

Oct 10, 2018, 10:00 PM – Oct 11, 2018, 1:00 AM (UTC)

Washington DC

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Barry Glick is the founder of the original unicorn --- MapQuest. MapQuest.com launched in 1996 as an early pioneer of both location-based services and the interactive web — two fields that have since exploded. Barry Glick led the company as its CEO for eight years preceding its sale to AOL for a stock deal valued at $1.1 billion.

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About this event

Barry Glick is the founder of the original unicorn --- MapQuest.

MapQuest.com launched in 1996 as an early pioneer of both location-based services and the interactive web — two fields that have since exploded. Barry Glick led the company as its CEO for eight years preceding its sale to AOL for a stock deal valued at $1.1 billion.

Since then, he has served as partner or CEO to a number of location-based service companies including mobile GPS navigation company Webraska, real-time geospatial data company ObjectFX, and geo-encryption company GeoCodex.

Now he is the General Partner at Carillon Ventures is an advisory and holding company focused on the intersection of location, information and technology.

He got his BA & PhD from University at Buffalo

Check out what happened

Speaker

  • Barry Glick

    MapQuest, Carillon Ventures

    Founder

When

When

October 10 – 11, 2018
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM (UTC)

Agenda

Networking and Food
Fireside Chat
Networking
Wrap up

Organizer

  • Mia Orantes

    Creative Analytics

    Chapter Director

Partners

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SparkLabs Cyber+Blockchain

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The Alley

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Verizon

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