Bruce Gilliat

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Bruce Gilliat
Born (1959-05-05) May 5, 1959 (age 65)
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Golden Gate University
OccupationInternet entrepreneur
Known forCo-founder of Alexa Internet
SpouseLeise Davis (m. 2006)

Bruce Gilliat (born May 5, 1959) is the co-founder and former chief executive officer of Alexa Internet. [1] [2] A precursor to Alexa was the joint finding with Brewster Kahle on the first initial Internet Archive named The Wayback Machine in 1996. [3] [4]


On 1 April, 1996, Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat founded a company called Alexa Internet. The company’s original vision was to develop advanced web navigation that would continually improve itself on the basis of user-generated data.

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