Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle
Residence	Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Known for	Founder of Chili!Soft

Charlie Crystle is a Pennsylvania businessman and philanthropist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

He founded the software company Chili!Soft in 1996 and raised startup capital from venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetsen of Palo Alto, CA.^[1] Chili!Soft was purchased by Cobalt Networks for $70 million when Crystle was 32 years old.^[2] He used the proceeds to fund several non-profit organizations and projects.^[2] The software is now incorporated into Sun Microsystems's Sun Java System Web Server.^[3] He has been described as a "software wunderkind."^[4]

He entered the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in an attempt to unseat Arlen Specter.^[5] Interest in his candidacy the race was stoked when he told the Associated Press that he would consider spending $1 million of his own money on the race.^[6] He planned to run as a "business consultant" and "tech-savvy visionary."^[7]

References

1. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19987902.html
2. ^ ^{a b} "An Interview with Charlie Crystle". PoliticsPA. Archived from the original on 2004-04-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20040402061428/www.politicspa.com/FEATURES/Interviews/interviewcrystle.htm. 
3. ^ Gartner, John (08.19.03). "Software Exec Eyes Senate Seat". Wired. http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2003/08/60078. 
4. ^ "Charlie Crystle and the long climb back. The life of a software wunderkind: Seeing a niche, building the product. And then comes the hard part.". Intelligencer Journal. March 20, 2005. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LC&p_theme=lc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=108FBD25191927C1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. 
5. ^ Neri, Al (August 2003). "District historically Republican". The Insider. http://www.insiderpa.com/archive/insider8-2003b.htm. 
6. ^ Neri, Al (August 2003). "Internet entrepreneur enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate". The Insider. http://www.insiderpa.com/archive/insider8-2003.htm. 
7. ^ Neri, Al (July 2003). "Democrat Hoeffel waiting in the wings". The Insider. http://www.insiderpa.com/archive/insider7-2003.htm. 

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