company
The Trade Desk
The Trade Desk, Inc. is an American technology company that makes software for programmatic digital advertising. It operates a demand-side platform that advertisers use to buy digital ads. The company is headquartered in Ventura, California.
Co-founder, chairman and CEO
Leadership
Jeff Green, Co-founder, chairman and CEO. Jeff Green is the founder and chief executive of The Trade Desk, the ad-tech company he founded and built in Ventura County, California.
Key facts
- Co-founded
- 2009source
- Headquarters
- Ventura, Californiasource
- Public company
- September 21, 2016source
- Annual revenue (2022)
- over $1.5 billionsource
- Markets
- 24 marketssource
- Stock listing
- NASDAQ: TTDsource
- Revenue (2025)
- $2.9 billionsource
- Gross spend (2025)
- $13.4 billionsource
- Co-founders
- Jeff Green and David Picklessource
- Footprint
- More than 30 locations worldwide and over 400 partnerssource
- IPO
- 2016source
- Share repurchase authorization (FY2025)
- $500 million total authorized future repurchases of Class A common stocksource
- Facebook Exchange
- 2012: included as a key partner in Facebook's launch of the real-time bidding (RTB) advertising platform, Facebook Exchangesource
- Forbes ranking
- 2015: named among the top 10 of America's Most Promising Companies by Forbessource
- Ernst & Young award
- 2017: Jeff Green and Dave Pickles named 'Entrepreneurs of the Year' by Ernst & Youngsource
Sources
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