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Glassdoor

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Glassdoor.com is a career and workplace community where anyone can find and anonymously share real-time reviews, ratings and salary details about specific jobs and job interviews for specific employers – for free.

Glassdoor helps employees, job seekers, employers and recruiters to simultaneously see unedited employee opinions about a company’s work environment along with details of pay, benefits, CEO approval ratings along with its newest section - reviews of job interviews.

Glassdoor was founded in 2007,launched its public beta in June 2008, and expanded to Interview Reviews in April 2009. Headquartered in Sausalito, Calif. Glassdoor has received $9.5 million from Benchmark Capital, which followed initial seed investment from Glassdoor co-founders Rich Barton, Robert Hohman and Tim Besse, and Sutter Hill Ventures.

Milestones

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  Glassdoor acquired JobVent.com. (7/09)
  Posted 10/5/09 at 2:30pm
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  Glassdoor received $6.5M in Series B funding. (10/28/08)
  Posted 10/27/08 at 9:13pm
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  Glassdoor received $3M in Series A funding. (3/27/08)
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:20pm
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  Glassdoor added Tim Besse as Co-founder, VP Product & Marketing.
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:20pm
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  Glassdoor added Ryan Aylward as VP Engineering.
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:24pm
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  Glassdoor added Richard Barton as Co-founder, non-exec Chairman.
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:20pm
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  Glassdoor added Robert Hohman as Co-founder, CEO.
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:20pm
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  Glassdoor added Jeff Gimzek as Senior UE Designer.
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:24pm
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  Glassdoor added Ron Lussier as Senior Software Engineer.
  Posted 3/27/08 at 5:24pm
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  Glassdoor added Tim Anderson as Director of Product Management.
  Posted 6/10/08 at 11:18pm

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Screenshots

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Above: Glassdoor Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 6/3/09

Above: Glassdoor International Reach
Uploaded: 10/5/09

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Sources

1. Twitter Helped Me Sell My Company (Investment Bankers, Watch Out) (boston.com) [edit]
2. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. VentureBeat (techcrunch.com) [edit]