Robert Scoble
| Robert Scoble | |
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| Born |
January 18, 1965 Piscataway, New Jersey |
| Residence | Half Moon Bay, California |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur in Residence, UploadVR, author |
| Known for | Blogging, Advocating Technology |
| Spouse(s) | Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble |
| Children | 3 |
Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is an American , technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He later worked for Fast Company as a video blogger, and then Rackspace and the Rackspace sponsored community site Building 43 promoting breakthrough technology and startups. He currently works for Upload VR — a new media site covering virtual and augmented reality — as its entrepreneur in residence, where he develops new shows, events, and works with other entrepreneurs in the Upload Collective, a co-working space for virtual reality-focused startups.
Scoble was born in New Jersey in 1965, and grew up about a kilometer from Apple Computer’s head office in Silicon Valley.
In 1993 he dropped out without finishing his degree in Journalism from San Jose State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
In June 2003 Scoble accepted a position at Microsoft. The Economist described Scoble’s influence in its February 15, 2005 edition:
On June 10, 2006, Scoble announced he was leaving Microsoft to join Podtech.net as vice president of media development with a higher salary accompanied by "a quite aggressive stock option" offer that would have made him wealthy if his new company had succeeded. According to Alexa Internet that day had the biggest traffic to his blog and PodTech over their lifetime. June 28, 2006 was his last day at Microsoft.
On December 11, 2007, while taking part in a panel discussion at the LeWeb3 Conference, Scoble inadvertently leaked news (by loading up a post on TechCrunch) that he would be leaving PodTech on January 14, 2008, and was likely to join Fast Company. He acknowledged the news on his blog on December 12 but stated that he had not yet signed on with Fast Company. He did a video interview about his plans and leased studio space from Revision3.
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