Entrepreneur Investor. CEO @CloudX. GP @breakpointcap_

Joined January 2008
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See you at Cannes!
May 26
Great seeing the extended ex-MoPub family and everyone in between. See you at MAU 2027.
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You actually can't correctly run a parallel mobile advertising setup without a secure enclave to do the comparison ... otherwise you end up comparing aggregated/average bids
May 20
When CloudX wins a bid and a third-party platform wins a bid, someone has to decide which ad runs. That decision needs to happen in a secure enclave. Introducing TEE 2.0.
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Our 2.0 version of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) makes it possible to securely compare bids from multiple platforms ... Live today on GitHub! Read more below
May 20
When CloudX wins a bid and a third-party platform wins a bid, someone has to decide which ad runs. That decision needs to happen in a secure enclave. Introducing TEE 2.0.
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Excellent pod w/ @sackdan @BrabergFelix on the future of mobile advertising, powered by @CloudX ... take a look!
May 18
Thank you @BrabergFelix for having @sackdan on for an entertaining and informative conversation. Since Felix last spoke with CloudX in Q4, he has become a user through one of his clients. Publishers running CloudX as a first look or in a parallel auction are seeing consistent 10 to 20% revenue lifts.
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Congrats to my friends @mfg and @mkatz0630 on launching @Trovexyz ... very fun and brings back lots of good memories
It was never just about the cards… It was about who you shared them with It was about the moments It was about the feeling It was about being a kid It was about who you became It was about what you held onto It was about the memories you made Today we launch Trove to bring that feeling back.
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Our modern, agentic approach to mobile advertising is working. Read more in a field update from @sackdan
May 14
Q2 Update: Publishers are consistently reporting 10-20% total ad revenue lifts while running CloudX.
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Jim Payne retweeted
May 13
It was never just about the cards… It was about who you shared them with It was about the moments It was about the feeling It was about being a kid It was about who you became It was about what you held onto It was about the memories you made Today we launch Trove to bring that feeling back.
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Thank you for having me on @nihalmehta !
You may have never heard of MoPub. Or MAX. But they built the invisible rails of mobile advertising. @jimpayne did both. MoPub was the mobile ad exchange that wired up the smartphone internet — sold to Twitter in one of the defining ad tech exits of its era. MAX became the mediation layer that every major app publisher depends on today. Two companies. Two categories defined. And now Jim is back for a third time with @cloudx, leveraging the largest computing shift of our lifetimes -- AI. Most founders never get one of these right. Jim has done it twice — and he's not done. On Episode 31 of the @humanunicornpod, we get into the full arc: what he learned building at scale during the mobile boom, why he kept coming back, what founders consistently get wrong about timing and distribution, and what he's seeing now that makes CloudX the bet of his career. Three-time founders are a different species. This one will show you why. 🎧 Link in comments
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A few weeks ago I sat down with @nihalmehta in NYC for an episode of his Human Unicorns podcast. It was a great conversation. Nihal pulls no punches! Give it a listen
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We have launched our CLI for @cloudX. Now you can automate your entire mobile monetization stack and let Claude do the work
Coming soon! Give @claudeai the keys to your monetization stack...sit back relax
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Jim Payne retweeted
Feels a bit like coming home, and a meaningful nod to a chapter of my career that shaped me. Excited to be back building with Jim and the CloudX team. More to come!
I am thrilled to welcome @JanaeR64 to the @CloudX team to lead our buy side initiatives and our growing team. Our job is to facilitate transactions on our platform on behalf of publishers and advertisers alike. There’s no one better at this than Janae!
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I am thrilled to welcome @JanaeR64 to the @CloudX team to lead our buy side initiatives and our growing team. Our job is to facilitate transactions on our platform on behalf of publishers and advertisers alike. There’s no one better at this than Janae!
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We are trying to mostly hire AI agents only, but felt an exception was warranted in this case 😂
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On a personal note, Janae and I have been trying to work together again for many years. Although way way overdue it’s amazing to have finally aligned now.
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