While at the Crowdsortium event at Google HQ, host Jason Calacanis interviewed event speaker Ben T. Smith, co-founder of MerchantCircle, a social network for local business owners.

Since this interview, Reply! has acquired MerchantCircle for $60M. More here: http://prn.to/Reply-acq

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