Almost every week, John Herlihy (VP of Global Ad Operations, Google Ireland) hosts meetings with interesting people in what’s known as leaders@google. Last week he invited Barry Maloney, Irish businessman and one of four General Partners at Balderton Capital (portfolio includes Bebo, MySQL, Betfair, Yoox & Yingli Solar among other high tech & Internet companies). I’d like to share the main ideas and stories from his Venture Capital firm:
- Balderton is trying to create an entrepreneur hub in Europe, until now most tech & online giants were born in Silicon …

Three years ago I had the pleasure to meet the founders of Sonico, the leading Latin American social network with over 46 million users. Rodrigo Teijeiro (CEO), Tomas O’Farrell (CMO) and Alvaro Teijeiro (CIO) had been creating successful online ventures for several years and their “latest gem” has already received over 3 million U$D in funding from DN Capital, OLX co-founders Fabrice Grinda (@fabricegrinda) & Alec Oxenford (@alejandrito) and well-known Internet investors like Ariel Arrieta (@aarrieta), Damian Voltes (@voltes) and Martin Varsavsky (@martinvars).
Today, Tomas shares with us Sonico’s vision of privacy issues and the future of social networks. Pay special attention to the PPP privacy …