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Scott Banister (born 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal. == Life and career == In the summer of 1995, Banister cofounded SponsorNet New Media, Inc., along with fellow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students Max Levchin and Luke Nosek.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= SponsorNet New Media )〕 Banister created the Submit It! service while in college. He left during his sophomore year in 1996 to co-found Submit It! Inc., where he served as vice president of technology. The company's other products included ListBot and ClickTrade. Submit It! Inc. was acquired by LinkExchange in June 1998,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= LinkExchange Acquires Submit It! )〕 which in turn was acquired by Microsoft in November 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Acquisition Enables MSN to Reach More Customers )〕 Banister then spent time working with other start-ups as board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture . In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million. Scott Banister is co-founder and chairman of Zivity, an adult-themed social networking site co-founded with his wife, Cyan Banister, and Jeffrey Wescott.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Scott Banister, Chairman, talks about Zivity on Fox Business )〕 He was an early investor in Powerset, a startup building a natural language search engine, and sits on the company's Board of Directors. He also sat on the Board of Directors for Slide, a start-up founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, acquired by Google and shut down. Other private equity investments include Uber, Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, Causes.com, Topsy Labs and TekTrak. Banister is a marijuana rights activist and a supporter of Republican Senator Rand Paul. In 2015, Banister donated $3 million to a Super PAC supporting Paul. Banister currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan. 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「Scott Banister」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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