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Vivendi Visits Ribbit on Tour of Silicon Valley Hi-Tech Companies

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 | located in Inside Ribbit, Visit Ribbit | No Comments »

Loic Sadoulet, a professor from INSEAD, led a group of 30 executives from Vivendi, a world leader in communications and entertainment, on a tour of Silicon Valley hi-tech and media companies that included Ribbit, Google, Facebook, Cisco, Guitar Hero (rawk!), and ALCATEL Lucent.

Ribbit’s CEO, Ted Griggs, provided an update on Ribbit - reviewing the platform capabilities, what it means to carriers and developers alike, and then walked the group through a demo of Ribbit Mobile (coming this Fall).

I asked Loic to share where the tour has taken them, what he has enjoyed most and what he hoped everyone would take home from this trip:

It was great to meet the Vivendi team and we hope to see them again next year!

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Mountain View Mayor Pays Ribbit a Visit

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 | located in Visit Ribbit | No Comments »

Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga (’MAK’) pictured here with Ribbit’s Ted Griggs and Crick Waters.

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FCC Commissioner Michael Copps Visits Ribbit

Monday, April 7th, 2008 | located in Visit Ribbit | No Comments »

FCC Commissioner Michael Copps recently dropped by Ribbit during his tour of Silicon Valley companies that are doing interesting things with communications. Ribbit has been getting considerable attention since we came out of stealth several months ago, but this was a delightful surprise. Mr. Copps was in the area to see “how investors and entrepreneurs are shaping the services available to consumers, and to see what “Silicon Valley’s First Phone Company” was all about. When you look at the list of people he took the time to see, you can get a sense for our enthusiasm:

• Steve Jobs - Apple
• John Doerr - Kleiner Perkins
• Larry Paige, Eric Schmidt - Google
• Larry Lessig
• …and then our own co-founders, Ted Griggs and Crick Waters

He followed up with a hand written postcard, thanking us for taking time out of our busy day to show him around.

Most gracious. Michael, thanks for coming by. You’re welcome any time.