Thrillist's Lerer: NY 'Becoming a More Viable Place' to Launch a Tech Business

Five years ago, Thrillist was a start up company, a rare thing in New York. These days, start ups aren’t just for Silicon Valley.

“New York is only getting stronger and becoming more viable as a place to start a technology-based business,” Ben Lerer, co-founder of Thrillist says in today’s Media Beat video.

In addition to his continued work to build Thrillist, Lerer also runs a new fund, Lerer Ventures, with his dad Ken Lerer (one of the founders of The Huffington Post), which the younger Lerer calls “a lot of fun.”

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