500Friends
Winter 2010 · Acquired
the best loyalty and retention marketing partner for CMOs.
Location: San Francisco, US
Team size: 51
About
Founders
Justin YoshimuraFounder/CEO
I am currently the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of CSC Generation Holdings ($1B run-rate, profitable, backed by Altos, Khosla, Conductive). Formerly 500friends (w2010), merged with Merkle (2014), eventual $2B exit (2016). Investor in: Hipmunk, Next Force Technology, Gigster, Dave, Macro Ventures, Imperfect Produce, Firebase (GOOG), Zencoder (BCOV), Ownlocal (seed), BounceX (seed, co-lead Series A, pre-IPO), Mux, BigFinite, etc.
Hong HuFounder
Tinkering and building. Previously: director of engineering and China site lead at Flexport, founder of 500Friends(YC10) acquired by Merkle.
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