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Dwight Merriman

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Occupation
  
Entrepreneur

Education
  
Miami University

Role
  
Entrepreneur

Name
  
Dwight Merriman

Website
  
www.mongodb.com


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Known for
  
Co-founder of DoubleClick and MongoDB Inc.

Organizations founded
  
MongoDB Inc., DoubleClick, Gilt Groupe

Similar
  
Kevin P Ryan, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin O'Connor, Alexis Maybank, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson

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Dwight Merriman is an American Internet executive and entrepreneur in New York City's Silicon Alley. Best known for co-founding DoubleClick with Kevin O'Connor and serving as its CTO for 10 years, Merriman currently serves as the Founder and Chairman of MongoDB Inc.

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DoubleClick was sold in 2005 for $1.1 billion to Hellman and Friedman LLC, and Merriman stepped down as CTO shortly thereafter. DoubleClick was acquired by Google for $3.1 billion in March 2008.

After leaving DoubleClick, Merriman, along with former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan, founded AlleyCorp, a network of affiliated Internet companies, including MongoDB Inc., ShopWiki, Business Insider, and Gilt Groupe.

Despite business duties at MongoDB, Merriman still writes code.

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References

Dwight Merriman Wikipedia