francisco california 2009 2009 headquarters san francisco california ; new york ny founder s steve garrity clara shih key people clara shih ceo steve garrity cto website hearsaysocial.com alexa rank 163 247 april 2014 update 1 hearsay social is a software as a service saas social media marketing management platform . 2 3 the service operates by using social networking services such as facebook linkedin and twitter as a way for clients to market to various customer bases . clients include large companies such as allstate as well as smaller local companies . 4 5 the company was founded in 2009 by former microsoft employee steve garrity and starbucks board member clara shih . 6 they initially intended hearsay social to be used to help larger companies promote their local branches via social media but has since described the company as a more general social selling platform . 7 the company is currently headquartered in san francisco california . references edit hearsaysocial.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2014 04 01 . gannes liz 3 february 2011 . hearsay brings compliance to social media . allthingsd . retrieved 5 october 2011 . takahashi dean 28 july 2011 . hearsay social raises 18m so your employees won t embarrass you on social media . venturebeat . retrieved 5 october 2011 . casserly meghan 10 september 2012 . hearsay social takes out insurance ; adds allstate to client list . forbes . retrieved 2 october 2013 . oreskovic alexei 5 september 2013 . internet s hearsay social raises 30 million in funding . reuters . retrieved 2 october 2013 . mcmahan ty 14 december 2011 . hearsay ceo brings cup of social marketing to starbucks . wsj venture capital dispatch weblog . retrieved 29 december 2011 . ha anthony . hearsay social raises another 30m to help businesses grow sales through social media . tech crunch . retrieved 5 october 2013 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hearsay social & oldid 743698763 categories software companies based in californiacompanies based in san franciscohidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from april 2014all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view