Education
Harvard Business School
Executive Course, Corporate Venture Capital 1997-01-01 - 1997-01-01Harvard Business School
MBA, Entrepreneurial Finance, Marketing 1984-01-01 - 1986-01-01Stanford University
M.S., Materials Science & Engineering 1983-01-01 - 1984-01-01Reed College
BA, Chemistry 1979-01-01 - 1983-01-01Work Experience
MobyNet Corp., GETcorp & BlackHole, LLC
Current
MobyNet Corp., GETcorp & BlackHole, LLC
MobyNet Corp
Current
MobyNet Corp
Global Energy Transmission
Current
Global Energy Transmission
Black Hole, LLC
2003-09-01 - 2021-04-01
Black Hole, LLC
BlackPearlChain Inc
2019-04-01 - 2020-04-01
BlackPearlChain Inc
DDM Systems
2016-04-01 - 2018-05-01
DDM Systems
Scayl
2007-01-01 - 2014-01-01
Scayl
Hayden Properties
2008-10-01 - 2010-10-01
Hayden Properties
DFJ
1999-07-01 - 2009-07-01
DFJ
StreamCast Networks (Morpheus P2P Software)
1999-09-01 - 2006-09-01
StreamCast Networks (Morpheus P2P Software)
Skills
Summary
Bill is an entrepreneur with thirty years of tech venture experience as a founder, executive, CEO, board member, chairman, and venture capitalist. He has a record of launching companies that reinvent online communications. Bill is CEO and Founder of MobyNet Corp. Moby makes Web 3.0 user-centric edge cloud software for decentralized apps that directly connects users and devices on a decentralized scalable secure overlay Internet. Moby supports a suite of scalable, private, and secure apps including P2P email, messaging, wallets, and user-owned ID NFTs, to authenticate users, and directly send, share or sync any size file quickly and easily over a fast lower cost CDN between apps. He is Cofounder, US Manager, and Director of Global Energy Transmission, the leader in distance wireless high power energy charging solutions for drones. Bill co-founded Timberline Ventures, an affiliate of the Draper Fisher Jurvetson global venture capital network, DFJ.com - draper.vc, the backer of Baidu, Coinbase, Divx, D-Wave, Hotmail, Skype, SpaceX, Tango, and Tesla. Notable Timberline investments of Bill's included: - Docutouch, digital signatures patent launched DocuSign (IPO $48B market cap) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocuSign, - Moving.com, acquired by NASDAQ: MNST (2.5x) 5/2000, - Sabrix, acquired by Thomson Reuters 12/09, - Streamcast Networks, Morpheus p2p file-sharing software, downloaded 170 M times in 60 countries, the 3rd most downloaded software of all time in 2004, with over 132 M global users, moving up to half of all internet traffic at the time. - Varolii, top 100 Washington state employer acquired by NASDAQ: NUAN 10/13. - Early prior experience at Eyeonics (electrochromic lenses and windows), Kollmorgen (compound semi-conductor equipment), Cray (supercomputers), and Hewlett Packard (microwave semi-conductors). Bill has raised $75 m and $137 million in co-investment with $400 million in liquidity events and has served on fourteen private company boards. - Harvard MBA; Stanford MS, Materials Science Engineering; Reed College BA, Chemistry, with eight patents. Specialties: Building, buying, guiding, investing, scaling & exiting tech companies. Product management, public speaking, intellectual property, competitive analysis, disruptive innovation, go-to-market strategy, finance, M&A. Peer-to-peer, digital media, software, computers, mobile apps, communications, social media, video, nanotech, optoelectronics, semiconductors, real estate.