CEO at Boxbe, Inc. www.boxbe.com
San Francisco Bay Area
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- CEO at Boxbe, Inc
- Past
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- Graduate Student, Artificial Intelligence at University of Michigan
- Senior Principal at Diamond Technology Partners
- CEO at Leverage Information Systems, Inc
- CTO at Leverage Information Systems, Inc
- Lead Developer at Match.com
- Education
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- University of Michigan
- University of Rochester
- Oyster River High School
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Thede Loder’s Summary
Consumer internet software guy. Boxbe is a service with works with existing web mail accounts (Yahoo! Mail, w/ Gmail, AOL in the works) and helps people in their battle against 'email overload'.
Prior to starting Boxbe, I was a fellow in Michigan's Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions (STIET) cross-disciplinary PhD program. I researched the economics of communication ("An Economic Answer to Unsolicited Communication"), and studied incentives design aka "mechanism design" in multi-agent systems.
In the 90s I was involved in the early consumer Internet, starting at match.com as the 3rd engineer and 12th employee. At match we built out of necessity what later became known as an application server (in Perl of all things!). It had many capabilities that were ahead of its time. A few of us left to start our own company (Leverage), in classic startup fashion, to commercialize app servers in the expanding market. As CTO I lead a team that designed and built a Java-based app server, and for a few years we licensed it while also providing professional services to our clients. Later as CEO, I helped find us a new home as part of IT-Stategy firm Diamond Technology Consultants (NASDAQ: DTPI).
In my spare time I like to travel (both in and outside of CA), read, spend time with friends, hike, and think about public policy and how to improve, via re-design, our educational system.
You can reach me via email -- use thede@boxbe.com
Cheers,
Thede
Thede Loder’s Specialties:
consumer internet services, server-side software and architecture, economic mechanism design, peer to peer systems design, product strategy and management
Thede Loder’s Experience
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CEO
Boxbe, Inc
(Financial Services industry)
September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)
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Graduate Student, Artificial Intelligence
University of Michigan
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
September 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 4 months)
Researching multi-agent systems, decision theory, and information economics.
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Senior Principal
Diamond Technology Partners
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
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CEO
Leverage Information Systems, Inc
(Internet industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
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CTO
Leverage Information Systems, Inc
(Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
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Lead Developer
Match.com
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1995 — March 1996 (1 year 3 months)
One of the original four that built match.com's web personals system. Developed a pre-forked, file-descriptor-passing, template pre-compiling, Perl-based application server running atop Oracle on Sun. Wrote the Simple SOCKS daemon and idistd load balancing software. Wrote match's originally billing system and integrated with CheckFree. Optimized database layout, app server internal architecture, and matching algorithms to result in better mate-matches.
Thede Loder’s Education
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University of Michigan
MS , Computer Science , September 2002 — December 2004
- Activities and Societies:
- STIET Fellow (Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions), Information Economics and Multi-agent systems
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University of Rochester
BS , Mechanical Engineerinig , September 1989 — May 1993
Emil M. Kuichling Prize
Newton Prize
Hook Award
NSF REU Program Participant- Activities and Societies:
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
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Oyster River High School
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Thede Loder’s Interests:
information economics, artificial intelligence, incentives design, software engineering, data center operations
Thede Loder’s Groups:
Renaissance Weekend
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DFJ CEO Network
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