Joi Ito: Life among the cyber-elite
Posted in: Miscellaneous at 30/07/2010 05:32
Joichi 'Joi' Ito is to start-ups what Brian Epstein was to the Beatles.
With a talented eye for a promising idea, the 44-year-old has spotted and nurtured some of the web's most famous names, with the likes of Twitter, Flickr and Last.fm all receiving his help on the path to social-networking success.
Time Magazine has described him as a member of the cyber-elite, a select band of internet personalities who command enviable levels of influence on the web.
Born in Japan before moving to North America, Joi dropped out of two universities before embarking on a career that spans all corners of the web.
His CV reads like a history of the web.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10789073