Scott Banister

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Exoskeletons for medical and military applications. Enables soldiers to carry more weight and those with paralysis to walk!

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Entertainment meets analytics. See also Max Levchin.

Like Wikipedia on steroids. The iPhone version is especially useful.

Founded during the tech bust, IronPort became the leading provider of enterprise email routing and anti-spam solutions, and we were acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007 for $830 million. If another company has ever had a higher percentage of all-stars at all levels of the organization, I'd like to hear about it! If you see IronPort on someone's resume, they're very likely to be an A player.

Email-enabled home voicemail service. Acquired by AOL. Funded by idealab!, Nokia Venture Partners, Worldview Technology Partners, and Oak Investment Partners.

Got to work closely with Bill Gross, one of the coolest people you will ever meet. I landed this gig through my earlier contributions to the business model at GoTo/Overture.

Short stint as board member. My role as an advisor/investor continued after I left the board to make room for Nokia Ventures. Luke Nosek and I invented "email payments", which was part of a rich history of cool innovations at PayPal -- "instant" ACH transfer, random deposit account verification, consumer CAPTCHAs, proprietary antifraud systems... This was an awesome team, and they are all out doing cool new startups now.

Welcome to free banner advertising. Such a lovely place.

We also developed ListBot and ClickTrade. Merged with LinkExchange and then acquired by Microsoft.

Maintenance and expansion of the content available at sloan.org for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which was then hosted on a good ol' MacHTTP server.