Richard Yoo

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Richard Yoo
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Richard Yoo speaking at AIR Houston 2007 as chair
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OccupationRetired
Website www.richardyoo.com

Richard Yoo is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder and former CEO of the web hosting company Rackspace, and the founder and former CEO of web hosting company ServerBeach. Richard Yoo was born in Houston, Texas.

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Life

Born in Houston, Texas, Yoo graduated from Alief Hastings High School in Houston and attended Trinity University as a pre-med student in San Antonio, Texas. [1] Although he did not graduate from Trinity, he operates as an advisor to the university's computer science department. [2]

Cymitar Network Systems was Yoo's first start-up. The small Internet service provider was launched in 1996 and was run out of his garage apartment while attending college. [3] [4] Yoo co-founded Rackspace in 1998 [5] [6] [7] and initially operated as its CEO. [8]

In 2003, Yoo was recognized with San Antonio Business Journal’s Annual 40 Under 40 Award. [9] The following year, he founded ServerBeach. [10] [11]

Yoo attended a TED conference in California in 2005. [12]

Yoo is an advisor for Inventables in Chicago, Illinois [13] and is a mentor for I/O Ventures in San Francisco, California. [14] Additionally, he operates as a judge in the Rice University Business Plan Competition (RBPC), [15] was a Chair for the Accessibility Internet Rally for Houston, [16] and is an advisory board member of the Children's Museum of Houston. [17]

Yoo spoke at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference. [18]

Yoo invested in Perceptual Networks located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [19]

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  2. ↑ "Entrepreneur passes over Austin and picks Bayou City as he continues to develop ideas such as Natuba.com" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  3. ↑ "Rackspace" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  4. ↑ "The Big Kahuna Hits the Beach" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  5. ↑ "Rackspace Confirms $400 Million IPO" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  6. ↑ "Next Tech IPO: Rackspace Going Public On NYSE" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  7. ↑ "Cuckoo for Customers" . Retrieved 2010-03-20.
  8. ↑ "8 Experts Predict How Web 2.0 Will Evolve In 2009" . Retrieved 2010-03-20.
  9. ↑ "Richard Yoo – Rackspace Hosting and ServerBeach" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  10. ↑ "Rackspace Founder Launches New Company Offering Personal Dedicated Servers" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  11. ↑ "Interview with Patrick Condon of Rackspace Managed Hosting" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  12. ↑ "TED Conferences Past TEDs > TED2005 > Feedback" . Retrieved 2010-02-06.
  13. ↑ "Inventables - Advisors" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  14. ↑ "I/O Ventures Partners" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  15. ↑ Rice University Business Plan Competition
  16. ↑ "Houstonist Tech Buzz - 091607" . Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  17. ↑ "Children's Museum of Houston Board of Directors" . Retrieved 2015-07-14.
  18. ↑ "Past SXSW Interactive Festival Speakers" . Retrieved 2015-07-14.
  19. ↑ "HotOrNot Founder Launches Mobile, Social App Perceptual Networks, Raises $1M From First Round, Steve Chen, Max Levchin And Others" . Retrieved 2012-09-28.
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