FirstMark Capital Just Hired The Star Entrepreneur Behind College Humor, Vimeo, and Busted Tees

Nicholas Carlson

Sep 17, 2013, 20:38 IST

In addition to being a solid entrepreneur, Abramson can also play the guitar

FirstMark Capital, the New York-based venture capital firm behind startups such as Pinterest, Aereo, and NewsCred, just hired two new partners.

They are Rick Nucci and Josh Abramson.

Nucci was the CTO of FirstMark-backed startup Boomi, which sold to Dell a couple years ago.

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Abramson was one of four co-founders of College Humor, Vimeo, and Busted Tees. The others were Ricky Van Veen, Zach Klein, and Jakob Lodwick.

Everyone always said Abramson was the businessman's businessman in the group.

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