Charlie Crystle
Charlie Crystle | |
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| Known for | Founder of Chili!Soft |
Charlie Crystle is a Pennsylvania entrepreneur and philanthropist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
He founded the software company Chili!Soft in 1996 and raised startup capital from venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetsen of Palo Alto, CA.[1] Chili!Soft was purchased by Cobalt Networks for when Crystle was 32 years old.[2] He used the proceeds to fund several non-profit organizations and projects.[2] The software is now incorporated into Sun Microsystems's Sun Java System Web Server.[3] He has been described as a "software wunderkind."[4]
He entered the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in an attempt to unseat Arlen Specter.[5] Interest in his candidacy the race was stoked when he told the Associated Press that he would consider spending $1 million of his own money on the race.[6]
References
- ^ [1] [dead link]
- ^ a b "An Interview with Charlie Crystle". PoliticsPA. Archived from the original on 2004-04-02.
- ^ Gartner, John (August 19, 2003). "Software Exec Eyes Senate Seat". Wired. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009.
- ^ "Charlie Crystle and the long climb back. The life of a software wunderkind: Seeing a niche, building the product. And then comes the hard part". Intelligencer Journal. March 20, 2005.
- ^ Neri, Al (August 2003). "District historically Republican". The Insider. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
- ^ Neri, Al (August 2003). "Internet entrepreneur enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate". The Insider. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.
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