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Hello, everybody.

My guest today is Chris Treadaway.

He's the CEO of a company called Polygraph Media and founder. He's a Facebook

marketing partner in ad technology and he was previously group product manager at Web Strategy at

Microsoft in Redmond and was also a co-founder of Stratford. He now lives in Austin with his wife,

Kim and daughter, Margaret. Okay, Chris, are you ready to take us to the top? Absolutely.

Okay, good. So tell us about Polygraph.

You go from Microsoft to Polygraph.

What's the difference and what are you working on today?

Yeah, so we actually started as an analytics business, big data analytics around social data about six years ago or so.

And we built this fantastic, I think, analytic system that mined tons and

tons of data out of the social graph, took it out to clients, and they told us it was nice,

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