Ian Morris is the co-founder and CEO of Likewise, an exciting start-up based in Bellevue, Washington. The Likewise app provides its users with personalized recommendations for TV shows, movies, books, podcasts, and more based on their personal interests, their social graph, and trending content that best matches their tastes.
Before Likewise, he served as the CEO of Market Leader for more than a decade, establishing the company as the leading provider of software-as-a-service solutions to the real estate industry with more than 150,000 enterprise and SMB customers. Under his leadership, Market Leader was ranked the fourth Fastest Growing Technology Company in North America from 1999-2004, leading to a successful IPO in 2004 and the sale of the company to Trulia in 2013 for $380 million.,
Previously, Ian spent seven years at Microsoft where he led many of MSN’s early online marketing efforts and later served as the general manager of Microsoft HomeAdvisor, one of the nation’s first consumer real estate sites. He has also served as a board member and strategic advisor to a number of both public and private technology companies. Ian is a graduate of Bryant University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.