- Internet entrepreneur
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An Internet entrepreneur is an entrepreneur that applies innovation to create new businesses on the Internet.[1]
Internet entrepreneurs are part of the more general category of digital entrepreneurs. Digital entrepreneurship takes advantage of computing geniuses in general to innovate and create new ventures.
Contents
Most famous Internet entrepreneurs
- Bill Gates and Paul Allen (passed down to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie from Bill Gates) - Microsoft - MSN
- Sergey Brin & Larry Page - Google
- Chad Hurley, Steve Chen (YouTube) and Jawed Karim - YouTube
- Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
- Pierre Omidyar and John Donahoe - eBay
- Tom and Chris DeWolfe - Myspace
- Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
- Jeff Bezos - Amazon.com
- Craig Newmark - Craigslist
- Jerry Yang and David Filo - Yahoo
- Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Luke Nosek - Paypal
- Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield -Flickr
- Reed Hastings - Netflix
- Jack Dorsey - Twitter
- Kevin Rose - Digg
- James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen - Netscape
- Joshua Schachter - del.icio.us
- Shawn Fanning - Napster
- Sky Dayton - EarthLink
- Bob Parsons - Go Daddy
- Tom Fulp - Newgrounds
- Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban - Broadcast.com
- Michael Arrington - TechCrunch
- Chris Pirillo - Lockergnome
- Arvind A. Raichur - AllLaw.com, Inc.
- Steffan Sondermark Fallesen - Servage Hosting
- Christopher Poole (moot) - 4chan.org
- Zach Klein - Vimeo
See also
References
- ^ "On Being an Internet Entrepreneur". http://radoff.com/blog/2009/11/28/on-being-an-internet-entrepreneur/. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
Further reading
- Livingston, Jessica, Founders at work: stories of startups' early days, Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York : Distributed to the book trade worldwide by Springer-Verlag New York, 2007. ISBN 9781590597149
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- Internet culture
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