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Ben ElowitzBlue Nile, Wetpaint

Ben Elowitz is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, a next-generation media company that is reinventing the media model on the social web. The company has more than nine million unique visitors monthly on all its web properties combined.

Prior to Wetpaint, Ben co-founded Blue Nile, the largest online retailer of certified diamonds and fine jewelry. He was an early employee at Fatbrain.com, an e-commerce company that went public in 1998 and was sold to Barnes & Noble in 1999. He is also an angel investor in a number of media and e-commerce companies, including Cheezburger Networks, which publishes the ICanHas-Cheezburger ...

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