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by MalcolmDiggs 3588 days ago
Ad-tech is such an odd-space. Every glimpse I get of it is fascinating: huge scale at minuscule latency, hard engineering problems, super-high valuations and exits: and yet, if you told me the top 10 names in ad-tech, I probably wouldn't recognize any of them. And I think most people are the same way. It's just a weird black-box sector of tech that almost nobody talks about. Not sure why though...
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Probably we don't talk about it because it's a part of our industry that we're not exactly proud of.
> It's just a weird black-box sector of tech that almost nobody talks about. Not sure why though...

My thoughts exactly ...