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Greg Isenberg (born February 3, 1989) is a Canadian Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is best known as a technology startup thought leader and the founder of the Webby award-winning 5by, a video discovery platform acquired by StumbleUpon in 2013 for an undisclosed sum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Canadian-Born 5by Wins People's Voice Winner at 2014 Webbys - BetaKit )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=StumbleUpon Makes First Acquisition: Video Discovery Service 5by )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=StumbleUpon makes first buy: video recommendation app 5by )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=With Its First Acquisition, StumbleUpon Sets Its Sights On Mobile Video Discovery )〕 Greg was profiled as a "top tech entrepreneur" by Entrepreneur, and has been quoted on tech industry matters by Mashable,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quebec's Preoccupation With French Is Limiting Its Startup Scene )〕 LA Times, Adweek,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Video Startups Look to Challenge YouTube's Dominance - Adweek )〕 Toronto Standard,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dispatches from the Valley: Greg Isenberg, founder of 5by )〕 and Reuters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apps create video playlists to suit mood and personality )〕 He is also a venture partner at Indicator Ventures, an American venture capital firm with investments in Circa News and CapLinked.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indicator Ventures Closes on $4.2M Toward Debut Fund )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Indicator Ventures )〕 He occasionally writes for The New York Observer and AskMen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Little Lifehacks Guaranteed to Improve Your Existence )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Networking As An Entrepreneur )〕 ==Life and career== Greg was born in Montreal, Canada. He started his first company at the age of 13, following in the footsteps of his entrepreneurial parents and grandparents. He attended McGill University as a Computer Science major before dropping out to pursue startups. His first business was Stress Limit, for which Isenberg ran digital marketing strategies and oversaw the web design rebranding efforts of FedEx, Microsoft, and TechCrunch.〔https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg〕 On the experience, Isenberg noted, "I learned very early on that to be competitive and do business with people, you first need to build relationships. So that meant flying out (Montreal ) regularly to San Francisco and New York to meet them in person, tell them what we’re working on, and making them as excited as possible to work with us.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Will Greg Isenberg's 5by Help StumbleUpon Maintain Its Momentum? )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Greg Isenberg: On Selling 2 Companies at 24 and Building Successful Startups () - NextShark )〕 Greg founded his next startup, 5by, in Montreal with a team of five engineers. 5by is a video concierge app that "sifts through online videos to deliver them to users based on mood, social interests, and time of day."〔〔http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-s-hootsuite-competing-for-silicon-valley-talent-1.2529631〕 It launched publicly at the LAUNCH Conference in San Francisco,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Canadian Angel Greg Isenberg Has Created a 'Songza for Video' and He Wants Millions of Users )〕 and quickly became known as the "Songza of video".〔5by has been called the Songza of video〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What happens when you combine WhatsApp with YouTube )〕 On the Google Play store alone, 5by amassed between 100,000 and 500,000 mobile installs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=5by - Best Videos on the web - Android Apps on Google Play )〕 Upon its acquisition by StumbleUpon — their first-ever company acquisition — 5by expanded its team to thirteen employees and moved to San Francisco.〔〔 Forbes remarked that, "It might be the fastest start-up to sale company in the social media technology category." StumbleUpon acquired the company with the intent of having it further monetize its mobile video aspirations and to increase revenue from its large user base.〔 In October 2014, 5by relaunched as a mobile app for chatting about online videos with friends.〔 Partnerships with VICE, Tribeca Film Festival, Defy Media, and Mashable were brokered to bring verticalized content onto the platform. The shift toward social features mirrored StumbleUpon’s own efforts with its mobile applications. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greg Isenberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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