Naveen Jain

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Naveen Jain (2013)

Naveen K. Jain (born September 6, 1959 ) is the executive director, entrepreneur and founder and former CEO of InfoSpace. InfoSpace became one of the largest Internet companies in North America shortly before the dot-com bubble . In 2010, Jain was the co-founder and chairman of Moon Express. In 2016 he founded the Viome company.

Early life

Naveen Jain was born in India in 1959. He grew up in New Delhi and later in villages in the Uttar Pradesh region .

Jain moved to Roorkee in 1979 to begin his engineering studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee . He emigrated to the United States in the same year .

Early career

Jain's first job out of college in 1983 was at Burroughs (now known as Unisys) in New Jersey as part of a business exchange program. He moved to Silicon Valley because of the warmer climate and worked for "a number of startups" before joining Microsoft in 1989. Jain worked on OS / 2 , MS-DOS , Windows NT, and Windows 95 , among others . He received three patents related to Windows 95 and was best known for his work as a program manager.

Jain joined the Microsoft Network management team before it was launched. After eight years at the company, he became dissatisfied, according to Red Herring , saying he didn't feel that one person could make a difference at a big company like Microsoft. Naveen Jain was working on the launch of Microsoft Network (MSN) when Netscape Communications raised $ 2.2 billion in an initial public offering in 1995. Netscape's IPO was considered the start of the dot-com bubble because it showed that Internet companies can do large IPOs without making a profit first. Naveen left Microsoft to start InfoSpace this year with the aim of getting its own IPO as soon as possible.

family

Jain married in 1988 and moved to Seattle with his family . He has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Jacobs: Naveen Jain Biography , Emerald City Journal. March 3, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015. 
  2. ^ Alan Boyle: Entrepreneur Naveen Jain offers a gut check with Viome wellness tracking service , GeekWire. April 18, 2017. Retrieved November 4, 2017. 
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g David Heath: Dot-con Job: Part 1: Dubious Deals (en) , The Seattle Times. March 8, 2005. Accessed August 18, 2019. 
  4. ↑ Smarter than Bill . Red Herring . June 30, 1997. Archived from the original on February 19, 2002. Retrieved on August 18, 2019.
  5. ↑ Patti Payne: Siblings Ankur and Priyanka Jain threw Themselves into nonprofits did help others , Bizjournals. November 15, 2009. 
personal data
SURNAME Jain, Naveen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jain, Naveen K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and founder of InfoSpace
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1959