Previously, Alison worked for several awesome technology companies, including Box, Aardvark, Nextdoor, and Google.

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This bizarre little newborn was a Baird's tapir from the Nashville Zoo, and it's actually nothing at all like an aardvark.

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The firm has been known for its seed investments, having invested in companies such as Mint.com, Milo, Tapulous, and Aardvark, which were all acquired.

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Having seen 10 acquisitions of start-ups in his portfolio over the past year including Mint.com to Intuit and social search service Aardvark to Google Inc.

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Kwatinetz also has a deal to merchandise Arthur, the cartoon aardvark.

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Similar services such as Mahalo and Aardvark, recently acquired by Google, have developed improved ways to show the right questions to the people who can best answer them.

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Through Reddit, I quickly discovered a popular link with adorable photos of this strange new creature that very well might have been the result of an aardvark mating with Danny DeVito.

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She was hanging out with MIT alumni in the Bay Area and was talking with an MIT classmate, Christine Yen, a computer science major who worked at Google (GOOG) and Aardvark, in August 2009.

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