principal, EDventure; investor/director, startups
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- director at Boxbe
- director at 23andMe
- director at Meetup, Inc.
- director at Eventful.com
- board of directors at WPP Group
- chairman at EDventure
- Past
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- trustee at Personal Genome Project
- advisor at HealthWorldWeb LLC
- director at Meetup
- Education
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- Harvard University
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Esther Dyson’s Summary
I spend most of my time exploring new space, health care and IT start-ups and technologies, writing about them and actively (and with full disclosure) investing in some of them. I love what I do and I love all the travel it entails! (You can also find me on Dopplr, if you are lucky enough to have an account! Before you ask, I have run out of invitations.)
[Re LinkedIn: I find it a valuable tool, but I respond only to personal messages that prove that the writer is writing to me rather than to an address book.]
Esther Dyson’s Specialties:
the Accountable Net, IP and telco policy, identity management, social software, Central and Eastern Europe, start-ups, semantic tools, mapping tools, foundation governance, board experience (esp. "corporate regime change"), commercial space, general aviation
Esther Dyson’s Experience
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director
Boxbe
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Services industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
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director
23andMe
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
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director
Meetup, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Services industry)
2004 — Present (5 years )
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director
Eventful.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Services industry)
2003 — Present (6 years )
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board of directors
WPP Group
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WPPGY; Computer Software industry)
June 1999 — Present (10 years 6 months)
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chairman
EDventure
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
March 1983 — Present (26 years 9 months)
I am organizing Flight School 07, www.edventure.com/flightschool
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trustee
Personal Genome Project
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2008 — 2009 (1 year )
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advisor
HealthWorldWeb LLC
(Privately Held; Hospital & Health Care industry)
2008 — 2009 (1 year )
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director
Meetup
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
2003 — 2009 (6 years )
