Paul Budnitz
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Paul Budnitz September 14, 1967 Berkeley, California |
Paul Budnitz (born September 14, 1967) is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder of Ello, an ad-free social network, and also Kidrobot, a retailer of art toys, apparel and accessories. He also owns and runs Budnitz Bicycles[1] in Burlington, Vermont.
Biography
Early career
In 1990, Budnitz graduated with an honors degree in Art and began working on two films, 93 Million Miles from the Sun and the 13-minute-long[2] Ultraviolet. Both won awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and were distributed worldwide. Artforum magazine hailed 93 Million Miles as "one of the best films of 1997."
Budnitz used Adobe Premiere to edit a full-length film on a Macintosh computer.[3]
In 1997, Budnitz started recording the sound for a 16mm film on MiniDisc, a new audio format that he encountered while on a trip to Tokyo. He hacked and customized the MiniDisc players to accommodate time-code, specifically for film and sound recording. This soon led him to found his third company, minidisco.com, which sold his reconfigured MiniDisc players on the Internet. By 2001 minidisco.com had become a $10 million business, running on home computers and using software Budnitz created.
References
- ↑ http://budnitzbicycles.com/about
- ↑ Description of Ultraviolet, Berlinale, 2002.
- ↑ Shoshana Berger, "Film hacker", Wired, April 1996. Accessed 21 July 2013.
External links
- PaulBudnitz.com
- Paul Budnitz at the Internet Movie Database
- "Paul Budnitz from Kidrobot interviewed by Steven Heller", Core77, 27 August 2007.
- Carolina D'Souza, "Paul Budnitz: The Kidrobot story", Gulf News, 18 July 2008.
- Steven Heller, "Toy story" (review of I am Plastic), New York Times, 28 January 2007.
- "Paul Budnitz: Kidrobot", Nylon, 27 September 2007.
- {http://paulbudnitz.com/post/879978244/in-1932-abraham-budnitz-my]
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