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Kevin Ryan has had a long and storied career as a pivotal force of New York City tech. He’s the founder and CEO of investment firm AlleyCorp, which has invested in a wide variety of startups, and is a serial founder, participating in the early stages of companies such as Business Insider, Zola, Gilt, Pearl Health, and Transcend Therapeutics. He helped build ad tech company DoubleClick as president and CEO in the 1990s and early 2000s, and Google later bought it for $3.1 billion in 2007, transforming the online advertising industry. He went on to co-found unstructured database provider 10gen, which later changed its name to MongoDB and went public in 2017.
