The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. Now Netflix offers video streaming in 41 countries around the world.
David Teten
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good.
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Hearpreneur
MARCH 15, 2019
Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Previously, I had worked in creating shrink-wrapped software products for 10 years and then headed a dotcom venture which failed.
Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Park began to write software to try to speed up the process, automating countless manual steps and creating a user interface that would be simple enough for doctors and medical clerks to use. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.
www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Business Software. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Human Resources (HR).
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 25, 2012
Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk. That trauma? Pay your employees.
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