Alexander Asseily

Alexander Asseily
Born London, England
Residence London, England
Nationality British, Lebanese
Alma mater Stanford University

Alexander Asseily is a British/Lebanese entrepreneur and founder of consumer electronics company Jawbone. Asseily was named the 33rd most influential person in Silicon Valley in 2013.[1]

Raised in Beirut, Lebanon and London, UK,[2] Asseily studied product design and mechanical engineering at Stanford University. His senior product design thesis became the foundation for the creation of Aliph, which he founded with his college friend Hosain Rahman.[3] He obtained a Bachelor of Science in product design in 1997 and a master's in mechanical engineering in 1998.[4]

He lived mostly in San Francisco, CA until 2010, when he returned to London. In 2011, Asseily and his brother Mark founded consumer software start-up Equal Media Ltd. to create State.com, and raised $14M in seed financing in May 2012.[5] State was launched publicly at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2013.[6] Asseily is executive producer of the 2013 documentary, Aluna, and lives in London, England.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The Silicon Valley 100". Business Insider. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  2. ↑ "Graphing your opinion: Jawbone founder wants to data-track points of view". Wired magazine. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  3. ↑ "Alexander Asseily FOUNDER, JAWBONE & STATE". Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  4. ↑ "Alexander Asseily". Retrieved 4 Sep 2014.
  5. ↑ Constine, Josh. "‘State’ Opinion Network Defines You By What You Think, Not How Famous You Are". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  6. ↑ "State Launches Opinion Network where you don't need followers to be heard". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  7. ↑ "In Your Ear With Alex Asseily". Boingo. Retrieved 2013-09-09.

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