David Tabizel

David Tabizel is an internet and media entrepreneur, who was the co-founder of a number of successful technology startups such as 365 Corporation (Football 365, Rugby 365 etc),^[1] Demon Internet, Autonomy, Rage Software, Durlacher (now Panmure Gordon) and others.^[2]

He was also involved in the forming and founding of Metrodome Film in the UK and in Ginger Media's purchase of Virgin Radio in the late 1990s. He also purchased Laughing Stock, Europe's leading comedy record label in the mid-1990s, a company whose artists included Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Rowan Atkinson and Arnold Brown.

Tabizel is credited with writing one of the first books on the Internet in 1991 ^[3] and also wrote an influential work anticipating the Internet boom of the 1990s in "The Internet an Investment Perspective" (Financial Publications Ltd 1994). Tabizel wrote an exhaustive study of the video games industry in 1993. Three of the companies co-formed by Tabizel, Durlacher, 365 Corporation and Autonomy each achieved stock market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion. Tabizel led the research and corporate finance efforts at Durlacher, creating a technology based research driven investment bank with a peak stock market value of approximately $4 billion during the peak of the dotcom boom in 2000.

He is the founder of VideoJug, the instructional video educational website, which had produced approximately 45,000 original how-to films by June 2008.

Although low-profile, he did give a rare in depth interview in 1995 to the Independent Newspaper and has also given occasional interviews to the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Express, Sunday Times and Newsweek. He is also known to invest and participate in number of media enterprises, particularly those involving Internet and/or comedy.

References

1. ^ "Corporate Profile: 365 ways to success". http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000426/ai_n14307083/pg_2. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ TECH MARKETS - Net Prophets?... - Miscellaneous - http://maxpages.com/techmarkets
3. ^ Clegg A (October 1996). "Telecommunications and the internet". Telecommunications Policy 20 (8): 545–8. doi:10.1016/0308-5961(96)00039-0. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0308596196000390. 

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