Last September, we announced that CMDTY had raised Series A financing. Here’s how we described the company at the time: As we talked about our mission — to make physical commodities as efficient as possible — we thought to ourselves, why not start with the word ‘commodity’ itself? We shortened…

Today, I received a “pull request” in my inbox from a well-known Silicon Valley person named Antonio Garcia-Martinez. As a technical founder of a startup, my inbox is often full of pull requests from the engineers on my team. If you’re not familiar with the concept, the idea (from github)…

In 2007, I started AppNexus in my apartment. Over the next 11 years, I poured myself into leading the company as we helped the largest advertisers and digital publishers take advantage of real-time bidding, a fundamental shift in the way ads were bought and sold. When I wasn’t diving deep…

Kara Swisher wrote a New York Times piece called “Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to be Ethical?” Apparently, a number of tech companies are considering hiring Chief Ethics Officers. In my eleven years as CEO of AppNexus, I confronted many ethical challenges, large and small. …