Clarkesville native strikes gold with business software company

Ben Porterfield, who spent much of his childhood in Clarkesville, recently sold his software company to Google for $2.6 billion.
Ben Porterfield, who spent much of his childhood in Clarkesville, recently sold his software company to Google for $2.6 billion.

   If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s what they tell you when you are young.

   Ben Porterfield made this simple philosophy worth billions.

   Porterfiel…

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