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Jon Hirschtick | |
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| Born | Chicago, U.S. |
| Education | Bachelors and Masters from MIT |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Title | Chairman of the Board at Onshape |
| Spouse |
Randy Lyanne Gollub (m. 2011) |
Jon Hirschtick is an American businessman, a Founder and Chairman of the Board at Onshape [1] (previous name "Belmont Technology" [2] [3]), a Founder and former CEO of Solidworks [4] [5] [6], a former group executive at Dassault Systemes [7].
Also Jon is a former director of engineering at Computervision (1981-1983) [8], he is a member of Advisory Board at Arcbazar and served as its Director [7], he was a manager at the MIT CADLab, and he was a player and instructor on the MIT Blackjack Team [9] [10].
Jon serves on the Engineering Advisory Board at Boston University and as an advisor to Magic Leap, Inc. and MarkForged, Inc. [11]
Career
Jon Hirschtick holds a Bachelors and Masters from MIT at 1983 and 1986 [5], and has worked in CAD for over 30 years.
He took about $1 million while a member of the MIT Blackjack Team and used this money to create a team to build 3D CAD software [12] [13].
Jon founded SolidWorks in 1993, his goal was to build easy-to-use 3D CAD software for Windows [4]. In 1997, SolidWorks sold to Dassault Systemes for $318 million, and Hirschtick stayed on board for the next 14 years. Under his leadership, SolidWorks grew to a $100 million revenue company.[1] In October 2012, Jon Hirschtick decided to leave SolidWorks to found another CAD company, Onshape [14] [15].
References
- ^ a b "Exclusive: SolidWorks vets raise $64 million for Onshape". Fortune. March 6, 2015.
- ^ "Litigation Over Noncompete Clauses Is Rising". Wall Street Journal. August 14, 2013.
- ^ "Belmont Technology is now Onshape, Inc". CIMData. January 9, 2014.
- ^ a b "Founders Can't Scale: Fact or Fiction?". Forbes. May 9, 2014.
- ^ a b "Sharing the excitement of mechanical engineering research". MIT News. September 23, 2016.
- ^ "Affordable 3-D Arrives". Wall Street Journal. July 29, 2010.
- ^ a b "Jon Hirschtick M.S." Bloomberg.
- ^ William D. Bygrave, Dan D'Heilly. "The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship Case Studies".
- ^ "Ahead in the cloud". Eureka Magazite. 13 May 2016.
- ^ "Breaking Vegas (2004)".
- ^ "Jon Hirschtick, Onshape".
- ^ "Hawk Ridge Systems and ATR Soft Create xBOM Tool for SOLIDWORKS".
- ^ "Of Card-Counting, Startups, and the Real Story of the MIT Blackjack Team".
- ^ "Onshape Raises $80 Million Led By Andreessen Horowitz". TechCrunch. September 24, 2015.
- ^ "Jon Hirschtick - Onshape is the New Generation of CAD".
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