FORA.tv Speaker - Louis Rossetto

Louis is the co-founder of Wired magazine, Wired TV, Wired Books, and the Wired Digital suite of websites, includingHotWired and the award-winning search engineHotBot. During his five years as editor-in-chief, he twice won the highest creative award in the magazine industry, the National Magazine award for General Excellence, and once for Design Excellence. As CEO, he pioneered web media by launching the first website with original content and national advertisers, the first search engine built on scalable architecture, the first blog, and streaming music media. As an entrepreneur, he built a profitable, highly motivated, and innovative company with operations in the US, Europe, and Japan, sales offices in half a dozen cities, met a payroll of 300, and created an enduring brand. After five years of his leadership, Wired’s assets sold for almost $400 million on $30 million of equity invested. In short, he not only foresaw the major social and economic trend of our time, the digital revolution, he was an active participant and leader in its development.