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.    Porterfield and his partner Lloyd…

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