Dan Wagner
| Dan Wagner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 July 1963 Edgware, Middlesex, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | MAID/Dialog, Venda Inc, ATTRAQT, Powa Technologies, Rezolve |
| Website |
brightstation |
Daniel Maurice Wagner (born 28 July 1963) is a British Internet entrepreneur. He created MAID, one of the first internet online information platforms in 1984, but the company's share price collapsed in 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst. He was later the founder and CEO of Powa Technologies, where he raised in excess of $ 200 million of funding before the company went into administration in early 2016.
Wagner was born in Edgware, Middlesex on 28 July 1963. The younger of two brothers, Wagners father was a managing director at BMW and his parents divorced when he was 9 years old. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood but expelled when he was 13, before attending several schools, ending up at University College School, London.
Wagner dropped out of school when he was sixteen years old to work as a shop assistant for entrepreneur Julian Richer at Richer Sounds. Afterwards he joined an advertising agency, WCRS, as an account executive. There he came up with the idea of creating databases of records about businesses as a resource for marketing professionals.
Wagner quit his job at the ad agency and founded the online information company MAID (Market Analysis Information Database) in 1984, when he was 21 years old. The company grew quickly and obtained a 26 percent market-share. According to The Observer he was "one of the first people to realise the benefits of packaging electronic information and data for scientists, librarians and other specialists." The company went public on the stock market in 1994 and was renamed to Dialog. It was also listed on NASDAQ in 1995. In August 1995, Wagner earned £ 36 million in two days after a 300 percent increase in share values, prompted by a partnership with Microsoft. Wagner became known for becoming a CEO of a public company in his 20s and for presiding over the company's share price decline in the dot-com crash in 2000. Subsequently, it was nicknamed by the city and a number of publications as 'Dial-a-dog'.
In 1997, Wagner agreed a deal to licence search technology (InfoSort) to Fujitsu of Japan which was hailed by Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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