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How does a family’s curiosity about its past lead to a site worth $100 million?

A 2008 life changing event led Matthew Monahan to co-found Archives.com, a site whose goal is to make researching family history simple and affordable. Four years later, he sold it to ancestry.com for $100 million.

Today, they continue to run Archive’s parent company, Inflection LLC, whose sites include peoplesmart.com, a search engine for people and public records, and identity.com, which will help people manage and protect their online identities.

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