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Andrew Perlman (born 19 June 1975) is an American entrepreneur who has co-founded nine venture-backed companies in the telecom, high-tech, pharmaceuticals, energy, water, and biotechnology industries. He is currently General Partner of GreatPoint Ventures,〔Bloomberg (), ''Bloomberg'', 14 May 2015〕 and Chairman and CEO of GreatPoint Energy, a company based in Chicago, Illinois which develops technology to produce clean natural gas from coal. Mr. Perlman has been featured on the MIT Technology Review’s list of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35〔("35 Innovators Under 35" ), ''MIT Technology Review'', 2009〕 and Crain’s Chicago Business’s list of 40 leaders under 40 in Chicago.〔Daniels, Steve (“Andrew Perlman” ), ''40 Under 40: 2012'', 2012〕 Perlman and GreatPoint Energy have been profiled by the Wall Street Journal,〔Kolodny, Lora ( "Bluer Skies for Shanghai?" ), ''Wall Street Journal Venture Capital Dispatch'', 20 February 2012〕 NPR,〔Shogren, Elizabeth ("Turning Dirty Coal into Clean Energy" ) ''NPR'', 25 April 2006〕 Forbes,〔Fisher, Daniel (“$100 Oil? We Love It” ), ''Forbes'', 13 October 2007〕 and Fast Company.〔Daniels, Cora ("Coal's Metamorphosis Man" ), ''Fast Co.'', 1 October 2007〕 == Early life == Perlman was born in Boston and grew up in the cities of Newton and Cohassett in Massachusetts. At age 12, he began tracking down the owners of dormant bank accounts, and taking a 20% commission in exchange for leading them to their forgotten money.〔Reeves, Richard ("The New Wealth" ), ''CNN Money'', 10 October 1997〕 Later in his youth, he applied for a federal license to construct an ethanol still in his parents’ house, though he was unsuccessful.〔 Perlman began college at Washington University in St. Louis, and as a sophomore he attempted to license and commercialize a university-owned technology to prevent credit card fraud.〔Daniels, Steve ("A Chicago company brings power to the People's Republic" ), ''Crain's Chicago Business'', 12 September 2012〕 The university declined the request because he was still a student, so Perlman simply dropped out. The university "said they didn’t do business with former students, because they didn’t want them dropping out to start companies,” according to Perlman.〔Donnelly, Julie (“Some New England entrepreneurs find success sans college degree” ), ''Boston Business Journal'', 5 January 2010〕 So he left, determined to become a millionaire by age 21. He failed in this goal, but just barely.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Perlman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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