Naveen Jain Improves the Internet
In January of 2003, Naveen Jain, along with his colleagues from his previous company InfoSpace, co-established Intelius Incorporated.
The company is among the leading information technology businesses in the industry, offering its consumers with complete data that can be utilized for various purposes. One of the main uses of the gathered information is for personal and business security. By using the World Wide Web as a tool for accessing publicly available sources, it effectively delivers its assistances to the company’s market base. This innovative idea came from the mind of its cofounder, Naveen Jain.
Naveen Jain has consistently showed his extraordinary skills in improving and one of his greatest ideas was to tap the capabilities of the Web. Since he started his two companies, such innovations have efficiently altered the way individual consumers and other businesses see the Internet. This IT mogul’s expertise, however, has not gone unrecognized; for he has consistently been given various acknowledgements. He is a recipient of the numerous awards like having the recognition of being one of the “Six People Who Will Change the Net” according to Information Week, Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young, and the Top 20 Entrepreneurs by Red Herring. In addition, he received an Albert Einstein Technology Medal.
Previous to Intelius Inc, he put up InfoSpace in March of 1996, where he led the company through its initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ national market. At that point, his company had 24 business acquisitions.
Prior to InfoSpace, he worked as a senior executive at Bill Gates’ Microsoft Corporation, between 1989 and 1996. During his stint with the software giant, he helped developed operating systems such as Windows NT, Windows 95, MS-DOS and OS/2. To this day, he still holds patents to some of them. Likewise, he took part in the launching of the online service Microsoft Network (MSN).
Aside from entrepreneurship, Naveen Jain likes to get busy with his philanthropic work by promoting education and children and solving world hunger. Beneficiaries of his efforts are Child Rights and You (CRY) India, the Seattle Children’s Hospital, the University of Washington, and United Way among others.
