Trinity's Gus Tai on social media investing

There's opportunity to provide services to help monetize the social media ecosystem In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviews Gus Tai, general partner and venture capitalist of Trinity Ventures. Tai focuses on consumer services and consumer enabling technologies, and maintains an interest in enterprise software. (Here is the edited version) BF: Well, Gus you've been very active in the social media space since 2005 when you invested in Wetpaint. Then in 2006, you invested in Photobucket. There's still a lot of investments being made in social media and the type of company that fits in the social media bucket has changed. So tell us how social media has changed from 2005 to 2009?GT: My sense is, and our take at Trinity is, social media continues to have the same fundamental aspects to it ... [ Read more ]

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Vator TV | March 4, 2009

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