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Halsey Minor | |
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Born | Halsey McLean Minor Sr 1964 (age 59–60) |
Education | BA in anthropology from University of Virginia |
Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur and businessperson |
Known for | Starting CNET[1] |
Halsey McLean Minor Sr. (born 1964) is an American entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993. He founded or co-founded Uphold, Live Planet, VideoCoin, Vivid Labs, Salesforce.com, Google Voice, OpenDNS, NBCi and Vignette.
Minor founded the venture capital firm Minor Ventures. In June 2013, he filed for bankruptcy but has gone on to start, manage and invest in numerous successful technology companies.
It's still CNET that Minor is best known for.