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'''Anand Rajaraman''' is a Web and technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cambrian Ventures and [[Kosmix]]. Rajaraman also co-founded former Junglee Corp. and played a significant role at [[Amazon.com]] in the late 1990s.<br />
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==Personal life and education==<br />
Rajaraman was born in [[Chennai]], [[India]]. He has an [[Master of Science|MS]] and a [[PhD]] in [[Computer science|Computer Science]] from [[Stanford]] University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras|IIT Madras]] (Class of 1989).<br />
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==Career==<br />
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Together with four other engineers, Rajaraman founded Junglee Corp. in 1996. Junglee Corp. pioneered Internet comparison shopping.<ref>Walter, Mark. [http://www.xml.com/pub/a/SeyboldReport/ip011201.html "Junglee Tries to Tame the Data Jungle"] xml.com. 5 August 1998. Retrieved on 1 August 2009.</ref> Junglee Corp. was acquired by Amazon.com Inc. in August 1998 for 1.6 million shares of stock valued at $250 million.<ref>[http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1998/08/03/daily10.html "Amazon.com buys Junglee, PlanetAll"] ''Silicon Valley/ San Jose Business Journal''. 5 August 1998. Retrieved on 20 July 2009.</ref> <br />
Rajaraman went on to become Director of Technology at Amazon.com, where he was responsible for technology strategy. He helped launch the transformation of Amazon.com from a retailer into a retail platform, enabling third-party retailers to sell on Amazon.com's website. Third-party transactions now account for almost 25% of all US transactions, and represent Amazon's fastest-growing and most profitable business segment.<ref>[http://www.cambrianventures.com/team/anand_rajaraman.html] Cambrian Ventures. Retrieved 31 July 2009.</ref><br />
Rajaraman also was an inventor of the concept underlying [[Amazon Mechanical Turk|Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk]].<br />
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Rajaraman and his business partner, [[Venky Harinarayan]], co-founded Cambrian Ventures, an early stage [[Venture capital|VC]] fund, in 2000. Cambrian went on to back several companies later acquired by [[Google]]. Cambrian has funded companies like [[Mobissimo]], [[Aster Data Systems]] and [[TheFind|TheFind.com]].<ref>Ranganathan, Chandra and NS Ramnath. [http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Men_who_did_not_buy_Google_are_creating_Kosmix/articleshow/2500516.cms "Men Who Spurn Google create Kosmix"] ''The Economic Times''. 30 October 2007. Retrieved on 17 March 2009.</ref> In April 2011, Kosmix was acquired by [[Walmart]].<br />
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In addition to acting as a consulting assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, Rajaraman is a special partner to [[NeoTribe Ventures]] and publishes a blog called Datawocky, on which he discusses data mining techniques in [[Internet search|search]], [[social media]], and advertising.<ref>{{cite news |title=Term Sheet - 17 February 2017 |url=http://fortune.com/2017/02/17/term-sheet-friday-february-17/ |work=Fortune |date=17 February 2017 |accessdate=14 June 2017}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090721043031/http://www.kosmix.com/ Kosmix]<br />
* [https://www.amazon.com Amazon]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120628055423/http://www.thefind.com/ TheFind]<br />
* [http://www.mobissimo.com/search_airfare.php Mobissimo]<br />
* [http://www.asterdata.com Asterdata]<br />
* [http://www.cambrianventures.com/ Cambrian Ventures]<br />
* [http://www.datawocky.com Datawocky]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090415081323/http://video.forbes.com/fvn/cio/technically-chaotic Forbes - Technically Chaotic]<br />
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