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Founder bio

The longer version

“Even the best AI models kept giving me terribly wrong answers causing inconvenience, embarrassment, & money loss. I decided to do something about that.”

Bob Haya, founder

Bob is still officially (inactive) President of CreateLabs, a Venture Capital fund funded by one of the wealthiest families in the world. His entrepreneurial activities have appeared on CNN TV, US News & World Report, Dow Jones, Red Herring, Business 2.0, ZDTV, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Herald, Salon Magazine, and The San Jose Business Journal.

Companies Bob founded: VR Depot (a simulation and virtual reality input device spin off exclusively licensed by the famous mouse company Logitech - still operating for 16 years), SyntheSys Research, acquired by global company Tektronix (still operating for 24 years), BlueKite (wireless Internet technologies), CoPortal (B2B and EAI technology tools), MyOwnEmpire (a My.Yahoo type portal with patent pending business model for ownership stakes in all businesses people buy from), Ride.com (sold). Bob's most recent board & advisory board included Jack Marshall, former CEO of Altavista Technologies, Ed Bennet, the former CEO of Prodigy, Inc., Marty Levin, a former executive with Microsoft Corp's MSN.

The one that got away

My startup put email on pagers & sold it into Apple, Sun & others in Silicon Valley, back when reading email meant a desk, a keyboard & typed commands, because the internet had no pictures yet. I could see what was missing. The first browser got built by somebody else.