Difference between revisions of "Robert Scoble"
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| − | Scoble grew up in Silicon Valley. His father was an engineer at Ampex and Lockheed Martin. His mother worked for [[Apple | + | Scoble grew up in Silicon Valley. His father was an engineer at Ampex and Lockheed Martin. His mother worked for [[Apple Inc]] as a member of a group of women who built Apple IIs at home. Robert learned how to solder a motherboard together when he was 11 and helped his mother build several hundred Apple IIs. |
He studied journalism at West Valley Community College and San Jose State. In 1989 he persuaded [[Steve Wozniak]] to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the WVCC journalism department, and then took responsibility for setting them all up. At that time he was a Mac Evangelist, fond of installing beta software and performing weird hacks on other people's old Apple computers to improve their performance. | He studied journalism at West Valley Community College and San Jose State. In 1989 he persuaded [[Steve Wozniak]] to donate $40,000 worth of Macintoshes to the WVCC journalism department, and then took responsibility for setting them all up. At that time he was a Mac Evangelist, fond of installing beta software and performing weird hacks on other people's old Apple computers to improve their performance. | ||
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After college Scoble worked for Fawcette Technical Publications and then for Winnov, a manufacturer of webcams. His job supporting webcam users led him to be active in Microsoft's NetMeeting support newsgroups, for which activity he was named a Microsoft MVP. | After college Scoble worked for Fawcette Technical Publications and then for Winnov, a manufacturer of webcams. His job supporting webcam users led him to be active in Microsoft's NetMeeting support newsgroups, for which activity he was named a Microsoft MVP. | ||
| − | He left Fawcette to join [[David Winer]]'s UserLand Software, | + | He left Fawcette to join [[David Winer]]'s UserLand Software, a blogging software startup, as Director of Marketing, until the startup ran out of money. He found a job at NEC Mobile Solutions as Sales Support Manager for TabletPC, where he used a blog to provide tech support and listen to feedback from NEC customers. This blog was noticed by Vic Gundotra, then General Manager of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft, who invited Robert to work at Microsoft. |
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| − | He found a job at NEC Mobile Solutions | + | |
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After leaving Microsoft he worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. | After leaving Microsoft he worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. | ||
