Larry Gross

Mr. Gross has over 20 years of C-level management and operations experience in technology, media, biotech and IT. He built and managed companies with invested capital and M&A transaction value of over $2.1 billion, including best of class VC-backed companies with over $600 million in invested capital. Backers include Kleiner Perkins, Draper Fisher, Khosla Ventures, Vivendi/Universal, Knowledge Adventure, Idealab and Lotus/IBM.

Mr. Gross was also Vice Chairman and Director of Idealab (from 1999 – 2001) where he served as Director and COO of CarsDirect.com which later became Internet Brands (NASDAQ:INET). In 2010, Hellman & Friedman ultimately purchased Internet Brands for $640 million in cash. In 2014, K.K.R. purchased Internet Brands for $1.1 billion from Hellman & Friedman.

Mr. Gross served as CEO & President of Knowledge Adventure (from 1995 – 1999) and Davidson & Associates (1997 – 1999), which combined, had over 1,000 employees and more than $250 million in annual revenue before being acquired in 1999 by Vivendi/Universal as part of an $800 million cash transaction.

In 1983, Mr. Gross received his B.S. in Engineering & Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and was a candidate in 1986 for a M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Caltech when his entrepreneurial pursuits began.