Joshua Schachter (born 1974) is the creator of del.icio.us, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. He has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
On March 29, 2005, he announced he would work full-time on del.icio.us (which pioneered tagging, especially on the web). On December 9, 2005, Yahoo! acquired del.icio.us for an undisclosed sum.[1] According to Business 2.0, the acquisition was close to $30 million, with Schachter's share being worth approximately $15 million.[2]
Prior to working full-time on del.icio.us, Schachter was employed as a programmer in Morgan Stanley's Equity Trading Lab. He created geoURL in 2002 and ran it until 2004.
On June 19, 2008, Schachter announced he has decided to resign from Yahoo!. Techcrunch reported that the recent news coming out of Yahoo! about mass resignations of senior staff pressed his decision to leave. Joshua also said that the he has no future plans but will instead join the "gloriously unemployed".[3]
References
- ^ Schachter, Joshua. "y.ah.oo!". del.icio.us blog. Retrieved on 2005-12-09.
- ^ Heilemann, John. "Tag Sale". Fortune. Retrieved on 2006-01-31.
- ^ Cubrilovic, Nik. "It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo". Techcrunch. Retrieved on 2008-06-19.
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