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Bruce Goldstein and the business of getting ideas out the door
From online shopping to mobile video, Bruce Goldstein has worked on the awkward passage between a promising idea and a paying audience. His career runs through retail, licensing, restaurants and the partnerships that make technology usable.
The 15-Second App That Became a Television Network
Shaq made Tout famous with one tiny retirement video. Newsrooms gave it a business: turning reporters’ phones and written articles into a distributed video channel.
Uri Raz Bet on the Call Before the World Picked Up
A fourth-time founder built Tango for the moment when video calling felt faintly futuristic. The more revealing story is what he did after messaging moved on without him.
Cat McIntosh’s Second Act Runs on Less Data
A former coffee-shop owner and resort marketer is now selling telecom operators a counterintuitive proposition: give customers the video they want by sending their phones less of it.
Novosol
Novosol is a Singapore-based mobile advertising and customer-engagement company behind moLotus, a patented GSM-based mobile video interaction platform. moLotus delivers personalized, interactive video messages directly to any mobile handset - no app download or data connection required - and can push millions of messages a day. Working through telecom operators such as Airtel, Vodafone, Indosat and Telkomsel, Novosol helps banks, retailers, automakers and consumer brands automate customer relationship processes while opening a new advertising revenue line for the carriers themselves.
Abhay Singhal
Abhay Singhal co-founded InMobi in 2007 from a shared Mumbai apartment with three IIT Kanpur classmates, and helped build it into India's first unicorn and the world's largest independent mobile advertising platform - reaching 1.3 billion people across 190+ countries. As CEO of InMobi Advertising, he now leads a platform serving 80 billion daily impressions, while InMobi prepares for a 2026 IPO targeting a $4-5 billion valuation. An angel investor in Razorpay, Bright Money, and Goldcast, Singhal is known for betting on mobile-first futures before anyone else did.