Paul Budnitz
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Paul Budnitz (born September 14, 1967) is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder of Ello, an ad-free social network, and also Kidrobot, a retailer of art toys, apparel and accessories. He also owns and runs Budnitz Bicycles[1] in Burlington, Vermont.
Biography
Early career
In 1990, Budnitz graduated with an honors degree in Art and began working on two films, 93 Million Miles from the Sun and the 13-minute-long[2] Ultraviolet. Both won awards at the Berlin International Film Festival[citation needed] and were distributed worldwide. Artforum magazine hailed 93 Million Miles as "one of the best films of 1997."[citation needed]
Budnitz used Adobe Premiere to edit a full-length film on a Macintosh computer.[3]
In 1997, Budnitz started recording the sound for a 16mm film [citation needed] on MiniDisc, a new audio format that he encountered while on a trip to Tokyo.[citation needed] He hacked and customized the MiniDisc players to accommodate time-code, specifically for film and sound recording.[citation needed] This soon led him to found his third company, minidisco.com,[citation needed] which sold his reconfigured MiniDisc players on the Internet. By 2001 minidisco.com had become a $10 million business,[citation needed] running on home computers and using software Budnitz created.
References
- ^ http://budnitzbicycles.com/about
- ^ Description of Ultraviolet, Berlinale, 2002.
- ^ Shoshana Berger, "Film hacker", Wired, April 1996. Accessed 21 July 2013.
External links
- PaulBudnitz.com
- Paul Budnitz at IMDb
- "Paul Budnitz from Kidrobot interviewed by Steven Heller", Core77, 27 August 2007.
- Carolina D'Souza, "Paul Budnitz: The Kidrobot story", Gulf News, 18 July 2008.
- Steven Heller, "Toy story" (review of I am Plastic), New York Times, 28 January 2007.
- "Paul Budnitz: Kidrobot", Nylon, 27 September 2007.
- {http://paulbudnitz.com/post/879978244/in-1932-abraham-budnitz-my]
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