Narendra Rocherolle

Narendra Rocherolle
Born	Narendra Alexis Rocherolle
Residence	Mill Valley, California, USA
Occupation	executive, software engineer, designer

Narendra Rocherolle is an American entrepreneur, designer, and software engineer.

Rocherolle was born in New York, New York, graduated from the King Low Heywood Thomas School, received a Bachelor's Degree from Princeton University in 1991 and a Master's Degree from Stanford University in 1994.

Rocherolle is President and Executive Chairman of Message Bus, an infrastructure applications company based in Mill Valley, California that he co-founded with Nick Wilder and Jeremy LaTrasse. He is also CEO of The Start Project, a consumer web incubator.^[1]

In 1996, Rocherolle, Andrew Laakmann and Nick Wilder co-founded Webshots, the first mainstream photo sharing service. He and his partners sold Webshots in 1999 to Excite@Home.^[2] They purchased the Webshots assets from the Excite@Home bankruptcy in 2001 and eventually sold the company for a second time in 2004 to CNET Networks^[3]

In 2006, Rocherolle, Wilder, and Julie Davidson co-founded the shared calendar and lifestream application 30 Boxes^[4](a two-time Webby Finalist^[5]). The application is attributed as the first "newsfeed" sourcing various social sites to provide updates based around people.^[6]

Rocherolle served as an early advisor to Twitter and vocal evangelist. In 2007 at SxSW, he and Wilder wrote the first mobile web version of Twitter^[7] and were the first to embed media in timelines. He is credited with generating the first "retweet"^[8] and writing the first article about Twitter that appeared in the mainstream media. The article entitled, "Evan Willams is My Tamagotchi"^[9] was written for the technology news site GigaOm and then excerpted in Wired Magazine.^[10]

Rocherolle and his partners have contributed to many areas of the social web. These include photo sharing, LAMP (software bundle), Asymmetric Follow, desktop applications using cloud storage, natural language processing, hover card social identity, remote css, activity feeds, webtop, friend recommendations, shared calendars, as well as profile and data sharing.

Rocherolle has written for GigaOm, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post.

He and his wife reside in Marin County. Rocherolle is an avid trail runner who completed the Western States Endurance Run in 2010.

His grandfather Lester Avnet was the co-founder of Avnet Electronics. His uncle Jon Avnet is a director and producer in the film industry.

References

1. ^ "Message Bus: The Start Project's First Graduate Launches, Pulls In A Cool $3 Million". TechCrunch. 2011-03-29. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/29/message-bus-the-start-projects-first-graduate-launches-pulls-in-a-cool-3-million/. 
2. ^ "Ocean Beach Webshots is sold for $82 million". San Diego Union Tribune. 1999-12-14. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/access/74634583.html?dids=74634583:74634583&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+14%2C+1999&author=Michael+Kinsman&pub=The+San+Diego+Union+-+Tribune&desc=Ocean+Beach+Webshots+is+sold+for+%2482+million&pqatl=google. 
3. ^ "CNET Networks to Acquire Webshots; Webshots is Leading Photography Web site; Over 14 Million Monthly Visitors". Business Wire. 2004-07-14. http://pressreleases.cnetnetworks.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=67325&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=591100. Retrieved 2007-01-05. 
4. ^ John Biggs (2006-03-11). "30 Boxes Ready to Take Out the Calendar Space". http://techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/30-boxes-ready-to-take-out-online-calendar-space/. 
5. ^ Rocherolle, Narendra. "30 Boxes is a Webby Nominee". http://30boxes.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/12/30-boxes-is-a-webby-nominee/. 
6. ^ Om Malik (2008-04-18). "Meet GigaLogue, Roll Your Own NewsFeeds". GigaOm. http://gigaom.com/2008/08/18/gigalogue/. 
7. ^ Rafe Needleman (2007-03-11). "Twitter gets a mobile-friendly Web site". CNET. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9696418-2.html. 
8. ^ @narendra (2007-03-07). "Please Twitter "echo" this". http://twitter.com/#!/narendra/status/5911334. 
9. ^ Narendra Rocherolle (2006-09-03). "Evan Williams is my Tamagotchi". GigaOm. http://gigaom.com/2006/09/03/evan-williams-is-my-tamagotchi/. 
10. ^ "Wired 14.11: Posts". Wired Magazine date= 2006-11. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/posts.html. 

Persondata
Name	Rocherolle, Narendra
Alternative names	Rocherolle, Alexis
Short description	Business executive
Date of birth
Place of birth	New York, New York
Date of death
Place of death