Larry Kim founded WordStream in 2007. He bootstrapped the company by providing internet consulting services while funding/managing a team of engineers and marketers to develop and sell software for search engine marketing automation.

In August of 2008 he secured a 4M Series A investment from Sigma Partners. Today he serves as company CTO and is a contributor to both the product team and marketing teams.

Larry's background has been in software engineering, software product management, and Internet Marketing (PPC, SEO and Social Media Marketing), working at several widely-used software productivity tools over 10 years. He received a B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Honors) from the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Canada. Larry authored 4 Award-Winning Books on Software Development, and writes for the SEOmoz blog, the Wordstream Blog, Marketing Profs, and dozens of other business, technology, and Internet marketing publications.

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