Geoffrey Kleinman
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November 21, 1970 Moraga, California, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, web designer |
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Geoffrey Kleinman (born November 21, 1970 in Moraga, California) is an American writer. He is the founder of Kleinman.com, the company which started and ultimately sold DVD Talk and which runs DrinkSpirits.com.
After graduating with a B.S. in Cinema Photography from Ithaca College in 1992, Kleinman moved to Los Angeles to work a film editor. Following short stints at CAA, and as an assistant editor on the film The Last Shot he moved to Portland Oregon to work in Internet technology.
In Portland he worked at Vulcan's Forge Multimedia (one of the first web design companies in Portland, Oregon); from there he moved to One World Internetworking, an early Internet service provider focused on business hosting.
In 1995, while working at One World Internetworking, he started his first online venture, which was initially called The Bi-Weekly Business Internet Report. but after a few issues became The Kleinman Report, which helped evangelize business use of the internet. In 1995 Kleinman covered Internet World, where a young David Filo and Jerry Yang (still students at Stanford) were publicly showing off, for the first time, their search engine Yahoo!
In 1996 he was recruited by Intel as an Internet marketing project manager where he worked on the Intel Internet Connection Wizard for Proshare technology which was ultimately integrated into the release of Windows 98. After a corporate reorganization he was tasked with development for the “Intel Owner’s Club”, an online community aimed at building affinity with Intel with owners of Intel products. That project was the predecessor for The Intel Web Outfitters Service IWOS, a multi-million dollar venture.
On January 20, 1995, Kleinman launched DVD Talk, which began as a small DVD news site and forum. Over the course of 8 1⁄2 years, the site grew from a 'one man band' to a full-fledged online magazine with a staff of 60 writers. In early 2004 Kleinman posted an audio interview Blu-Ray and High-Definition - A DVD Talk Audio Interview which would become the foundation for one of the first podcast. In January 2005 the podcast would officially launch as DVD Talk Radio with the premiere episode, an Interview with Henry Rollins.
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