Eric Pulier | |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Eric Pulier is an American entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California.
Pulier was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, [1] where he attended Teaneck High School, graduating in 1984. [2] He began programming computers in the fourth grade and started a database computer company in high school. Pulier began studying at Harvard University in 1984. He majored in English and American literature, was an editor and wrote a column for The Harvard Crimson , and took classes at neighboring school MIT. He graduated magna cum laude in 1988. [3] [4]
Pulier moved to Los Angeles in 1991, where he founded People Doing Things (PDT), a company that addressed health care, education, and other issues through the use of technology. In 1994, he founded the interactive agency Digital Evolution. The company completed a merger of equals with US Interactive in 1998, and took the combined company public on NASDAQ 1999 with Pulier as Chairman. [3] Pulier worked with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and director Stephen Spielberg to create Starbright World, a private social network (the first of its kind) for chronically ill children where they can chat, blog, post content and meet others who share similar experiences. [3] [5]
In 1997, the Presidential Inaugural Committee selected Pulier to create and execute the Presidential Technology Exhibition in Washington D.C. called "The Bridge to the 21st Century." [6] Following the exhibition, he was invited to advise then-Vice President Al Gore's health care and technology forum and led nationally impactful health care and technology initiatives. [3] Pulier was also a supporter and participant with the Clinton Global Initiative. [7]
Since that time, Pulier has founded and co-founded sixteen other ventures and raised over 1.5 billion dollars for his initiatives. These ventures include Vatom, Desktone, ServiceMesh, Media Platform, Akana, LoanX, Ralli, Top, CLS, and others that have risen to leadership positions in their sectors, gone public, or achieved liquidity events. He also co-authored Understanding Enterprise SOA, a book on service-oriented architecture. [8]
In 2015, a dispute with CSC arose in connection with a nonprofit he funded. From the outset, Pulier maintained that all actions were lawful, ethical, and fully documented. Following a comprehensive review, the government dismissed the matter in its entirety with prejudice, “in the interest of justice,” and a related SEC action was amended to remove any implication of intentional fraud. Afterward, Pulier petitioned for the correction of a misleading press release to accurately reflect his successful outcome. He subsequently resumed high-profile collaborations with the U.S. government and Fortune 500 companies, with the matter resolved and his long-standing reputation intact.
Today Pulier actively works with government and private organizations worldwide in the application of exponential technologies across sectors, with a primary focus on artificial intelligence, blockchain, and other exponential technologies. Pulier is a GP and LP in several capital funds, and Pulier Industries--his umbrella organization--is actively inventing, seeding and investing in projects around the world that positively impact humanity.