Halsey Minor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Halsey Minor (born 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993 (initial plans for the company began in 1992). Minor ran CNET for 8 years during which time it became one of the Internet's first companies to achieve profitability. The company's many achievements were recognized in 1999 when CNET was selected as one of only 2 Internet companies to join the elite NASDAQ 100 which included companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Home Depot, and Dell. Minor also developed 2 other spin-off companies which independent of CNET became public entities: Vignette Software and Snap/NBCi. Minor is currently investing in new companies in a broad range of fields via Minor Ventures.
Minor attended Woodberry Forest School and the University of Virginia, where he was a member of St. Elmo Hall and received a degree in anthropology. After graduation, he worked at Merrill Lynch, before moving on to start his own company. In the late 1980s, he collaborated briefly with Jeff Bezos, the future founder of Amazon.com on a personalized news business plan. Minor was also the founding and largest investor as well as silent partner in the development of salesforce.com.
On September 4, 2007, Minor announced the development of a new 5 star hotel located in downtown Charlottesville. The hotel is intended to be 9 stories and continue the ongoing revitalization of historic downtown Charlottesville.
On December 19, 2007 the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced that Halsey purchased the historic Carter's Grove plantation on 400 acres (1.6 km²) for $15.3 million and that he "plans to use the mansion as a private residence and use the site as a center for a thoroughbred horse-breeding program."[1]
[edit] References
- Wired Magazine: The Inner Bezos
- Virginia Pilot Newspaper December 19, 2007 "Carter's Grove mansion sells"
|
|||||||||||
 |
This article about an American businessperson born in the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
