- Oliver Muoto
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Oliver Muoto 
Born June 29, 1969
Poznan, PolandOccupation President, Metablocks, Inc
entrepreneurSpouse Jennifer Muoto (2001–present) Children 2 Website http://www.muoto.com Oliver Muoto (born 1969) is a Polish-born serial entrepreneur responsible for co-founding several early stage companies including vFlyer (with Aaron Sperling), Epicentric (with Ed Anuff) and RandomNoise. Muoto served a number of startup advisory boards including those of eGroups (acquired by Yahoo!), ActiveTelco (acquired by Tut Systems), Become.com and MerchantCircle.
Born to a Nigerian father and Polish mother, he moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1988 to enroll at the University of Southern California. He received his bachelor's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering and minor in Marketing from University of Southern California in 1993 where he was involved in at least two on-campus startups.[1] He moved to Silicon Valley in 1993 to join Coactive Computing.
In 1998, he began working on a project called PalmPoint with Wired executive Ed Anuff. The two had worked previously together in San Francisco for Motion Works International, a Canadian-based multimedia tools developer that had acquired Anuff's previous company. The project eventually led to the founding of Epicentric, a enterprise software company that became a leading provider of enterprise portal software. The company raised over $94M in 4 rounds of funding from investors that included Outlook Ventures,[2] Innovacom Ventures (France Telecom), JP Morgan, CRC, ScotiaBank, Bessemer, Autodesk, New Vista Capital, Motorola and others before it was acquired by Vignette in 2002.[3]
In 2002, Muoto co-founded vFlyer with Aaron Sperling,[4] a provider of marketing solutions aimed at helping online sellers and sales professionals syndicate and distribute their product and service listings more effectively on the web.
He also helped launch PayDemocracy, an online micropayments aggregator for small political contributions in 2003 (with Chad Williams),[5] ActiveTelco (acquired by Tut Systems), and TagWorld (acquired by Viacom/MTV),[6] a social network based in Los Angeles, CA.[7] In 2001, Muoto was also granted a key patent (US Patent # 6,327,628)[8][9] related to enterprise portal software. He is currently president of Metablocks, social media and web technology solutions provider to the music and entertainment industries.
References
- ^ Eric Ransdell (April 2002). "Portals for the People". Fast Company. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/34/ideazone.html. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ Outlook Ventures Portfolio - http://www.outlookventures.com/portfolio.html
- ^ Jennifer Mears (2002-10-29). "Vignette to acquire Epicentric portal developer". Computer World. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/75506/Vignette_to_acquire_Epicentric_portal_developer.
- ^ Bob Tedeschi (October 2, 2006). "Wanted: A Way to Profit by Simplifying Web Classifieds". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/02/technology/02ecom.html. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- ^ WSJ Article
- ^ TechCrunch - http://techcrunch.com/2007/09/13/viacom-launches-broad-desentralized-social-networking-strategy-called-flux/
- ^ BusinessWeek
- ^ Business Wire (December 4, 2001). "Epicentric Granted Patent on Administration of Portal User Privileges". Business Wire. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_Dec_4/ai_80528028. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ^ Patent
External links
- http://www.muoto.com/ Personal website.
- Oliver Muoto has a professional profile on LinkedIn.
- FastCompany Article Portals for the People
- WSJ Article Start-Up Capitalizes on Democracy (with photo)
- CNN Interview PayDemocracy CNN Interview Transcript
- New York Times Article Wanted: A Way to Profit by Simplifying Web Classifieds
Categories:- 1969 births
- Living people
- University of Southern California alumni
- American computer businesspeople
- Nigerian people
- Polish people
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