ADVISORY/Speaker Steve Kirsch, Founder of Infoseek and Propel, Presents 'Your Money, Your Health, Your Time, Your Business: What MIT Forgot to Teach Me!'.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (July 12) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
When: July 12, 2000
7:15-9 a.m.
Where: Santa Clara Westin Hotel
Tasman & Great America Parkway
What: SC University CIE's CEO Global Breakfast Series
Steve Kirsch Steven Todd Kirsch invented and owns a patent on the optical mouse. After bringing multiple successful startup companies through IPO and corporate buy-out, he became a multi-millionaire. As a 12 year old student, he became fascinated with a programmable calculator. has a story to tell. Founder/CEO of three successful startups, he recently launched a 4th -- Propel Software. Propel is creating a revolutionary way to build e-commerce web sites for e-tailers, a standard platform that does for "e-commerce what Microsoft did for the desktop." Investors Marc Andreesen, Michael Dell Michael Saul Dell (born February 23, 1965, in Houston, Texas) is the founder and CEO of Dell, Inc. Biography Early life and education The son of an orthodontist, Dell was born in to an upper-class Jewish family and attended Herod Elementary School in Houston, , Andy Grove, Colin Powell Noun 1. Colin Powell - United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937) Colin luther Powell, Powell , and Meg Whitman Margaret C. "Meg" Whitman (born August 4, 1956) has been the President and CEO of the online marketplace eBay since March 1998. Whitman joined eBay when the company had 29 employees and operated solely in the United States; eBay is now a global organization with over 11,000 believe Steve, with more than 27 years in high-tech and the Internet, can do it. Beginning as a systems programmer at the first ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) The research network funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). The software was developed by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), and Honeywell 516 minicomputers were the first hardware used as node, while still in high school, he went on to found Frame Technology, eventually acquired by Adobe, and Mouse Systems. Shortly after he founded Infoseek in 1994, providing "Net Search" for Netscape, it became one of the largest advertising-supported Net sites. The award winning products Steve created attracted Disney who acquired the company last year. Steve and his wife Michele are active philanthropists donating over $5M a year of their $75M foundation to charitable causes. The Propel team has adopted values that are creating a unique company culture -- e.g., play to win-win; give back to the community, make and meet commitments, teach and learn from each other, have fun, award accomplishment, improve continuously, go the extra mile to take care of the customer. Steve holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in EE and CS from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . |
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