Two-person group of Science and Technology entrepreneurship

    Kevin Raien (Kevin Ryan) and Dwight Meriman (Dwight Merriman) were paired together and founded three companies worth 1 billion of dollars. But these two people are more comfortable with running a company than explaining how they achieved it. In a glass-cubicle meeting room in Gilt Groupe, New York's Manhattan Park Avenue headquarters, a luxurious leather sofa, the two of them said, was an analogy. "One of us is like a running guard in an American olive, and the other one is taking over," he said. "said Ryan. The 49-Year-old is a lean, well-dressed man who is perfect for his work. "Or you play the defensive coordinator, and I can let go of the matter." Merriman answered. The 44-Year-old is a technical expert. These two people, perhaps like the two lines in the double helix structure, complement each other, but don't get entangled together.      No matter what the secret is to make them two partners for 17 years, but this cooperation has created several staggering success stories. One example is the double-click Company (DoubleClick), founded by Merriman and led by Ryan, is, in part, the inventor of an online advertising service. In 2005, the company was bought by private equity investors for 1.1 billion of dollars (three years later sold to Google for 3.1 billion dollars). Since then, the pair has started five companies, two of which have been successful. One is the Gillette Group, which specializes in high-end fashion, home furnishings and local trade online services, and another company, called 10gen, sells software and services to companies such as Cisco, MTV and Salesforce.com. If you believe in private market valuations, the two companies are now worth 1 billion or more.      Failure is also available. Two partners lost money on Panther Express, a video technology company that merged with CDNetworks in 2009. Shopwiki.com, an E-commerce search engine, was sold after a few years, but didn't earn much money. There are also Business Insider, a news website run by Henry Bragi (Henry blodget), still a loss-making yell--last year's revenue was $12 million trillion and 3 million dollars. But the site recently announced a profit and won 5 million of billions of dollars in investment from Amazon CEO Bezos Jeff Bezos. Henry Bragi was originally a controversial stock analyst and later transformed into a blogger.      along with the confluence of technology and media, Ryan and MaeMann came together. Ryan's father was Caterpillar's Caterpillar, and Ryan himself grew up in Rome and Geneva, where his family settled in Ohio Chaglin Fors. His educational background was designed to be tailored to senior executives: finishing undergraduate economics at Yale, doing investment banking in London, and MBA at INSEAD in France. After a Disney of financial work at the Walt Disney Company, he changed course in 1995 and defected to the United Press (United Media). This is a syndicated group of joint columnists and cartoonists. His most prominent achievement during the joint Media service was the creation of the Superman gas website dilbert.com.      Merriman has been a programming freak since adolescence. At the age of 14, Ohio Middleton bought his first computer--ti-99/4a (an early home computer produced by Texas Instruments). At that time he was hooked on the code. "I'll suddenly find out it's three o'clock in the night and I'm still working on it," he said with a smile, "and obviously that's what I want to do in my life." "After studying computer science at the University of Miami not far from home, he joined the Cincinnati Network company Intercomputer Communications. The company was founded by Connor, an entrepreneur, and Merriman followed O ' Connor to Atlanta after the company sold it to the digital communications Company (Digital Communications Associates).      Three years later, in 1995, the double-click Company was born in O ' Connor's basement. He and Merriman have created a system that displays a variety of banner ads on a network of 30 websites and tracks the effects of these ads on pinpoint visitors. This caught Ryan's attention, and he wanted to do the online advertising business. When he met the "double click" Team in New York, he had a further thought: "I walked out of the hall and thought, ' I'm going to do it with them."      As a result, the founding team began to improve the system, while Ryan (first as CFO and later as president) was responsible for managing finance, recruiting and building internal systems. In 1998, when the company was successfully listed, Ryan was the CEO. In 2000, the company's share price soared seven times times to $135 trillion and revenue soared to $500 million trillion.