Rob Glaser

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name = Rob Glaser


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birth_date = January 16, 1962
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alma_mater = Yale University
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occupation = business executive - founder and CEO of RealNetworks
net_worth = $2 billion (as of 1999)
spouse = Sarah Block (wife #2, m. 2000)
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religion = Jewish

Rob Glaser (born January 16, 1962)cite web
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accessdate = 2008-10-06] is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produced RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services. Before founding RealNetworks, he had become a millionaire by working for Microsoft for ten years.

Glaser is a graduate of Yale University with an MA degree in Economics and a BS degree in Computer Science.

Glaser was the 22nd largest individual donor to 527 groups in the 2004 US election, donating over $2.2million to pro-Democratic organizations. [cite web | url = http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527indivs.asp?cycle=2004 | title = "Top Individual Contributors to 527 Committees, 2004 Election Cycle" | date = 2004 | accessdate = 2008-10-06] He was the leading creditor to Air America Radio, loaning at least $9.8 million according to its bankruptcy filing. (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013062airamerica1.html)

External links

* [http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/41.html No. 41 Rob Glaser: Bit Streamer] - Time Digital Top 50 (1999)cite web | title = Time Digital Top 50 (1999) | url = http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/41.html | publisher = Time magazine | date = 1999 | accessdate = 2008-10-06]
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.08/glaser.html Rob Glaser, Moving Target] - interview by Randall Rothenberg writing for Wired Magazine (August, 1999)
* [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1036321,00.asp RealNetwork's CEO Rob Glaser] - interview by Lance Ulanoff writing for PC Magazine (April 21, 2003)
* [http://news.com.com/Can+Glaser,+Jobs+find+harmony%253F/2008-1027_3-5312857.html Can Glaser and Jobs find harmony?] - interview by John Borland writing for c/net news.com (August 17, 2004)
* [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013062airamerica3.html Free Fall Radio: Air America Goes Bankrupt] - Page 3 of the Chapter 11 filing from The Smoking Gun (13 October 2006)
* [http://www.fiercemobilecontent.com/story/hot-seat-rob-glaser/2007-12-18 Rethinkng Mobile Data Plans - On the Hot Seat with Rob Glaser] - interview by Sue Marek for FierceMobileContent (December 18, 2007)

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