The messaging app that is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge" was founded by a business of what descent?
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Stewart Butterfield Daniel Stewart Butterfield (born Dharma Jeremy Butterfield, 1973) is a Canadian entrepreneur and businessman of Polish descent, best known for being a co-founder of the photo sharing website Flickr and team messaging application Slack.
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Slack (software) Slack is a cloud-based set of team collaboration tools and services, founded by Stewart Butterfield. In simpler terms, it is a chatting program. Slack began as an internal tool used by their company, Tiny Speck, in the development of "Glitch", a now defunct online game. The name is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge".
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Karen Marie Shelton Karen Marie Shelton (née O'Connor; born June 23, 1951) is an Internet-based entrepreneur, the CEO and founder of Hairboutique.com, one of the oldest and largest consumer hair portals on the Web. She is also the CEO and co-founder of T&S Software, a telephony software provider of award winning software in the VOIP arena. She has authored more than 2,500 original articles on consumer hair care topics.
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Jerry Kaplan Samuel Jerrold "Jerry" Kaplan (born March 25, 1952) is an American computer scientist, author, futurist, and serial entrepreneur. He is best known as a pioneer in the field of pen computing and tablet computers. He is the founder of numerous companies, including GO Corporation, whose technology was used to develop the first smartphone and tablet PC. Kaplan is the co-founder of OnSale, the first B2C online auction site launched in 1994, five months prior to eBay. He is a recipient of the 1998 Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award and author of the best-selling book "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure." He has been featured in major news publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Red Herring, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Kaplan is also the author of the 2015 book "Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence". Additional companies he has co-founded include artificial intelligence company Teknowledge, Inc. and social game website Winster.com. Kaplan is currently a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.
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Bradley Tusk Bradley Tusk (born October 3, 1973) is an American businessman, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political strategist, and writer. He is the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, a multi-faceted platform featuring multiple businesses (Tusk Ventures, Tusk Strategies, Ivory Gaming, Kronos Archives), politics, philanthropy, and writing and commentary.
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Beme Beme Inc. ( ) is a multimedia company founded by Matt Hackett and Casey Neistat, a popular vlogger and short film maker on YouTube. Beme Inc. is the creator of the Mobile app, Beme. On November 28, 2016, CNN announced that it would acquire Beme. CNN intended to invest in the company and create a new brand focused on a young audience. The Beme app was officially shut down on January 31, 2017.
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Michael Baum (entrepreneur) Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is best known as the Founder & CEO of Splunk a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management, security forensics, compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence. Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public. He has also been a Venture Capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Palringo Palringo is a community-oriented messaging and gaming app for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The platform allows users to form and join large groups based on common interests, send instant messages and drop images and voice recordings into conversations. Launched in 2006, Palringo has 45 million installed users worldwide and offers a range of games along with more than 350,000 groups, some of which have up to 2,000 members. Headquartered in London, Palringo has offices in Newcastle, Ipswich, Gothenburg and Helsinki.
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Ben Keighran Ben Keighran is an Australian born internet entrepreneur currently residing in San Francisco, CA. In 2009, Keighran became CEO & Co-Founder of Chomp (Application), a technology company that powers an on-device native and web app search and discovery engine.
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Ben Silbermann Ben Silbermann (born 1982) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things. The website allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections called "pinboards". Examples include events, interests, hobbies and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own collections and/or 'like' photos.
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Wendell Brown Wendell Brown is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and inventor best known for his innovations in Telecommunications and Internet Technology, Cybersecurity, Smartphone app development, and the Internet of Things. Brown has founded multiple notable technology companies including Teleo, LiveOps and eVoice.
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Murray Haszard Murray Hayden Haszard (born 11 May 1954) is a New Zealand entrepreneur and businessman who founded the companies B32 Software and Binary Research and is the chairman of Ilion Technology.
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Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2008, he was named to the "MIT Technology Review" TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. For 2012, "The Wall Street Journal" gave him the "Innovator of the Year Award" for technology.
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NUVI NUVI is a social media mining company, creating a SaaS (Software as a Service) tool that enables businesses and organizations to view or hear the things that people write, say, believe or feel about a subject or topic. The term "software as a service" (SaaS) is considered to be part of the nomenclature of cloud computing. There are very large numbers of conversations that take place daily in the social sphere; NUVI retrieves the conversations to enable businesses and organizations to listen, view, respond or engage.
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Kriti Sharma Kriti Sharma, (born April 1988) is an artificial intelligence technologist, mobile product inventor and one of the first chatbot executives in the technology industry. In 2017, Sharma was named in "Forbes" magazine's 30 Under 30. She is a speaker on financial technology, big data, product management and millennial entrepreneurship. She is currently the Vice President of Bots and AI at Sage Group, one of the UK’s largest tech companies. She is the inventor of “invisible accounting” with Pegg, first of its kind chatbot for business finances. She has been leading efforts to create more diverse and ethical artificial intelligence and “embracing botness” which means that AI does not have to pretend to be human, instead it needs to be useful.
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Alex Furmansky Alex Furmansky is an American entrepreneur and businessman. He is the founder of Budsies, a company which turns children's artwork and photographed into custom stuffed animals, and Sparkology, an online dating service that caters to successful young professionals. For his various ventures, Furmansky has been described as a "serial entrepreneur."
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Meebo Meebo was an instant messaging and social networking service provider. It was founded in September 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, and was based in Mountain View, California. Initially the company offered a web-based instant messenger service, extending its offer in more general online chat and even social networking directions. In June 2012, Google acquired Meebo to merge the company's staff with the Google+ developers team.
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Luis von Ahn Luis von Ahn (born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and a Consulting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.
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Daniel Borel Daniel Borel (born February 14, 1950) is a Swiss businessman and co-founder of Logitech.
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Jonah Peretti Jonah Peretti (born January 1, 1974) is an American Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder of BuzzFeed and "The Huffington Post", and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".
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Luke Johnson (businessman) Luke Oliver Johnson (born 2 February 1962), is a British entrepreneur, best known for his involvement with Pizza Express chain. He is a former chairman of the Royal Society of Arts and Channel 4. He writes a weekly column for "The Sunday Times". Johnson calls himself a "projector", in line with the 17th century term for a man involved in many different businesses. However, others regard him as just a serial entrepreneur.
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Disqus Disqus (pronounced "discuss") is a worldwide blog comment hosting service for web sites and online communities that use a networked platform. The company's platform includes various features, such as social integration, social networking, user profiles, spam and moderation tools, analytics, email notifications, and mobile commenting. It was founded in 2007 by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan as a Y Combinator startup.