Demand Media

Richard Rosenblatt is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Demand Media. He has built, operated, and sold over $1.3 billion of Internet media companies. Rosenblatt was born in Woodland Hills, CA on April 6, 1969. Raised in Southern California by his nuclear physicist dad... and professor mom, Rosenblatt went on to earn a B.A. from UCLA, and a J.D. from University of Southern California Law School . After getting his law degree, Rosenblatt took a job at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, in Los Angeles, but quit after 6 months citing boredom. In October 1994, Rosenblatt co-founded iMALL and served as head of internet media and web development. iMALL's products included a suite of tools to build e-commerce stores and transact commerce over the internet. Rosenblatt replaced one of the founders, Craig Pickering, as CEO in July 1996 and took on the additional role of Chairman of the Board in January 1997. Rosenblatt oversaw a restructuring and rebuilding of the business.
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Fredric W. Harman joined Oak as a General Partner in 1994. Fred's primary investment focus is on Consumer Internet and Internet New Media. Fred is... currently on the Boards of Aspect Software, Connexus Corporation Demand Media, FRS, Knowledge Networks, Limelight Networks, RazorGator, Rearden Commerce, Reunion.com, Shop.com, Sutherland Global Services, Talisma and U.S. Auto Parts. Fred has also led investments in aQuantive, Allyes , Campus Pipeline , Fastclick , Captura , Cobalt, Exodus, ILOG, IMS Inktomi, Pivotal, Primus Knowledge Solutions, Qpass , Quintus , Sanmina/SCI, SportsGG and SPSS. Prior to Oak, Fred worked for seven years with Morgan Stanley's Venture Capital Group where he was a General Partner. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Fred worked in Business Development at Hughes Communications where he was involved in the formation of the predecessor to DirecTV. Fred received an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where he was a Hughes Fellow. Fred is also a co-owner of the Golden State Warriors and a Trustee of Sacred Heart Schools.
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