Keith Schacht

Keith Schacht is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor . He was named as one of the top 20 entrepreneurs under 25 by Business Week, [1] was a speaker at the TED Conference , and has leg featured in Forbes , [2] Fortune , [3] Business 2.0 , [4] and Wired . [5]

Professional accomplishments

Keith Schacht’s first company, founded while in college, was Lever Works, a custom software development shop. It was co-founded with Brian Witlin and Zach Kaplan . In January 2001 Delivery Works was sold to Leo Media for an undisclosed sum. [6]

In 2002, Schacht co-founded Inventables, a company dat educates companies about new materials and technologies. The company was featured in numerous publications waaronder Forbes in 2006 [2] and Wired in 2007. He’ll be serving a talk on “Toys from the Future” [7] at the TED Conference in 2005

In 2007, Schacht founded crafted video, an early company building applications on the Facebook platform . Crafted video raised funding from Apex Ventures and Naval Ravikant. [8] The company developed a range of applications, including Facebook Grow-a-Gift welke was Cited as a top application-used by millions of people. [9]

In 2010, Schacht joined Facebook as a product manager and launched an updated version of News Feed in 2011. [10] [11] [12] He left the company in 2012.

References

  1. Jump up^ ” Entrepreneurs: Cream of the Young Crop ” . 28 December 2005.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Lambert, Emily (2006). ” Gadgets to Go ” .
  3. Jump up^ July Schlosser (1 November 2004). ” Inside-the-Box Thinking ” .
  4. Jump up^ David Pescovitz (1 January 2004). ” Mail-Order Inspiration ” .
  5. Jump up^ Betsy Schiffman (22 May 2008). ” Facebook To Go Under the Knife ” .
  6. Jump up^ Lueken, Abbie (6 June 2005). ” Student Entrepreneurs Make Dreams a Reality ” .
  7. Jump up^ ” Toys from the Future ” . 2008.
  8. Jump up^ (2010). ” Keynote Speakers ” .
  9. Jump up^ “Farmer, Jesse” (2007). “Hottest Facebook Apps “ .
  10. Jump up^ Parr, Ben (2011). “Facebook changes Newsfeed So You Never Miss Vital Updates “ .
  11. Jump up^ Swartz, Jon (2011). “Facebook, Google+ announce new features “ .
  12. Jump up^ Taylor, Colleen (2011). “Facebook wants to be the newspaper or your dreams “ .