At age 34, Jesse Biter could have moved anywhere, done anything. It was December 2010, and AutoTrader, the online car sale behemoth, paid tens of millions to acquire the online inventory software company he had built up over the previous 14 years. Biter could have spent his time flying around in his single-prop Cirrus SR22, spear-fishing with buddies, floating on a yacht. Instead, he stayed in Sarasota and went back…
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Sarasota entrepreneur Jesse Biter, who sold a $16 million auto sales software business last year, didn’t sit on the sidelines for long. Indeed, Biter is back — in a big way. Biter and local auto dealership executive Matt Buchanan, son of U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Longboat Key, launched a new business, Dealers United. The plan is to build a nationwide network of dealers that will have combined buying power with…
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