Clark Benson is a serial entrepreneur with 5 startups under his belt including an internet exit eCrush to Hearst in 2006. Ranker is his current startup and he also funded the seed round. Clark's other startups have been in the music industry. Two of them have been merged into Almighty Music Marketing, which is run by his partner, Joel Oberstein. He has also been an angel investor in Jumpcut/Miravida, which sold to Yahoo! in 2006. Clark obtained his B.S. in Finance from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business.