Gary Alan Kremen (born 1963) is an entrepreneur who founded personals site match.com, and registered several premiere domain names in the early days of the internet, including sex.com, jobs.com, housing.com, and autos.com. Born in the Chicago area, he graduated Niles West High School in 1981, then graduated with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1985, and a MBA from Stanford Universi...
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Gary Alan Kremen (born 1963) is an entrepreneur who founded personals site match.com, and registered several premiere domain names in the early days of the internet, including sex.com, jobs.com, housing.com, and autos.com. Born in the Chicago area, he graduated Niles West High School in 1981, then graduated with bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Northwestern University in 1985, and a MBA from Stanford University in 1989.
Kremen, who was using the Internet as early as 1985, launched software firm Los Altos Technology after graduating from Stanford in 1989, and headed the company until investors replaced him with a new CEO in late 1992.
In 1993, Kremen founded Electric Classifieds, Inc. the first company to bring classified ads to the internet. Funded by private investors in November 1994, he launched online personals service match.com in April 1995. After troubles with venture capitalists, he left match.com in March 1996, remaining on the board of...
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