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Global Grind

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Globalgrind.com is a digital media company that promotes the broadest and deepest array of content of interest to the hip hop community from the most authoritative sources across the web. The platform features exclusive blogs, video, music, news, gossip and politics, which users can submit, vote and comment on, and syndicate using Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools. Headquartered in New York City, Global Grind is a privately held firm funded by Accel Partners and Russell Simmons.

Recent Milestones

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  Global Grind added Luca Columbu as Lead Architect. (1/1/12)
  Posted 4/14/13 at 7:11pm
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  Global Grind added Bart Markus as Board member. (9/1/10)
  Posted 12/7/10 at 6:51am
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  Global Grind acquired CelebrityTweet. (12/8/09)
  Posted 12/8/09 at 4:56pm via prnewswire.com
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  Global Grind received $2.6M in Venture Round funding. (10/7/09)
  Posted 10/9/09 at 3:11am via paidcontent.org
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  Global Grind received $4.5M in Series B funding. (8/1/07)
  Posted 8/22/07 at 1:23am via paidcontent.org
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  Global Grind added Nicole Alexander as Vice President, Marketing. (1/1/07)
  Posted 2/15/08 at 9:37am
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  Global Grind received () in Series A funding. (9/1/06)
  Posted 9/26/07 at 3:15am
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  Global Grind added Jim Breyer as Board Member.
  Posted 4/20/10 at 11:03am
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  Global Grind added Robert Boyle as VP, Product.
  Posted 12/19/11 at 12:45pm
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  Global Grind added Russell Simmons as Chairman.
  Posted 1/28/09 at 10:34am
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  Global Grind added Steve Tyson as Content Curator.
  Posted 12/3/08 at 10:57am

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Global Grind

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Website	globalgrind.com
Blog	blogs.globalgrind.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	September 26, 2007
Tags	social-networking, community, globalgrind, news, hip-hop, urban

Global Grind is a community based website allowing people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web, by linking to, voting for, and commenting on each others content, in a social and democratic way. To view the content in full global grind links to the website that published the story, therefore driving traffic to that website and creating a larger market for sites that publish their own news stories, photos, and videos.

Voting submitted content up and down is the cornerstone function of the website, and is respectively referred to as grinding and trashing.

Headquartered in New York City, Global Grind is a privately held firm funded by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners and Hip-Hop Mogul Russell Simmons.

Above: Global Grind Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

Above: Current look of site
Uploaded: 11/28/08

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1. Russell Simmons & GlobalGrind.com Announce the Acquisition of CelebrityTweet.com (prnewswire.com) [edit]
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3. paidcontent.org [edit]
4. Russell Simmons’ GlobalGrind Raises $2.6 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]