Angus Davis: Spurring Innovation by Making Some Noise

Davis drives innovation by “peppering” people with questions, “peppering” them with ideas. He’s not “the guy programming the computer code,” but the one who gets the perfect team together. Empowering us to make better mistakes tomorrow, Davis embodies the essence of serial entrepreneurship. 

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Angus Davis

Angus Davis began his entrepreneurial career taking his grandmother's magazines, clipping articles, stapling them together into new magazines of his own creation and selling them door-to-door. His career as an eight-year-old media aggregator and syndicator was short lived, but in high school he joined the early team at one of the country's first commercial ISPs (Our class B was 155.212), where he built the first Web sites for many businesses. After creating the first Web-based college application, Angus turned down college to become Netscape's youngest employee in 1996, where he worked with giants (marca, jimb) who were generous in teaching him what they knew about building the world's highest profile start-up success story. He was product manager for their Web browser, worked on the anti-trust suit, and helped launch mozilla.org.

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