Ross Mayfield, Socialtext Co-founder, Chairman and President.

Ross Mayfield is co-founder, Chairman and President, and former CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California.¹ He is also a regular blogger and public speaker.

Mayfield received a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)^{citation needed} and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program at the Anderson School of Business.^{citation needed}

He began his career in the non-profit sector with the U.S.-Baltic Foundation^{citation needed}, after which he moved to Estonia and served as a script-writer for, and advisor to, the Office of the President of Estonia.^{citation needed} He also served as Marketing Director of Levicom, one of the largest privately held telecom groups in Eastern Europe^{citation needed} where he also started an Internet Service Provider^{citation needed} and a web design company.^{citation needed}

In 1998 he co-founded RateXchange, a business-to-business commodity exchange for telecom, where he quickly progressed from Vice President of Sales and Marketing to Chief Operating Officer and then to President.² With the collapse of the dot-com bubble, the company, which had yet to earn any revenue³, saw its billion dollar valuation vanish overnight⁴, and he left in August 2000.

He then served as VP of Marketing for a Lucida, a Fujitsu spinout^{citation needed}, before co-founding Socialtext in 2002.

References

External links

• Ross Mayfield's Blog
• company website
• Many2Many, a group blog on social Software that Mayfield contributes to
• 71MB and 24MB Quicktime movies of Ross Mayfield lecturing on emergent democracy and group forming networks at Stanford in 2005, licensed under Creative Commons, hosted by the Internet Archive

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