Ian Morris is the co-founder and CEO of Likewise, an exciting start-up that is focused on providing consumers with their own personal media and entertainment companion. Likewise provides users with personalized recommendations for TV shows, movies, books, and podcasts, and makes it easy for them to collect and organize their favorites and share them with the people they care about.
Before Likewise, Ian served as the president and CEO of Market Leader for more than a decade, establishing the company as the leading provider of SaaS 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, and later to the sale of the company for $380 million. After receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School, Morris 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.