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Greg Brown Has Spent 20 Years Making Bad Data Everyone's Business
At Melissa, an English graduate with a law degree turned addresses, duplicates and returned mail into a durable marketing brief: make the invisible cost of bad information impossible to ignore.
Melissa Spent 40 Years Fixing the Customer Data Everyone Else Ignores
The California company started by mailing ZIP-code databases on floppy disks. Four decades later, its pitch is still disarmingly practical: stop a bad address, dead email or duplicate customer before the mistake gets expensive.
EasyPost
EasyPost is a Utah-based logistics technology company that built the first RESTful shipping API, giving developers a single integration point to rate-shop, buy and print labels, verify addresses, track packages and insure shipments across 100+ carriers worldwide. Founded in 2012 by Jarrett Streebin, it removes the technical complexity of shipping so e-commerce brands, marketplaces and fulfillment providers can ship like Amazon without rebuilding carrier plumbing from scratch.
Lob
Lob is a San Francisco-based SaaS company that turns direct mail into programmable infrastructure. Through APIs and an automation platform, marketers and developers send personalized postcards, letters, checks, and self-mailers at scale, with built-in address verification and a nationwide print delivery network.
Harry Zhang
Harry Zhang is the Co-Founder of Lob, the direct mail automation platform he built from scratch with Leore Avidar after Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch. Inspired by his own frustrations managing clunky direct mail campaigns at Microsoft, Zhang coded Lob's first APIs himself and grew the company to over $100 million in annual revenue, $79.5M in total funding, and 12,000+ business customers. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree (Enterprise Technology), he holds degrees in Informatics and Business from University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and remains on Lob's board of directors.