Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle is an entrepreneur from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Charlie Crystle
Known forFounder of Chili!Soft, GiftWorks

He founded the software company Chili!Soft in 1996 and raised startup capital from venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetsen of Palo Alto, CA.[1] Chili!Soft was purchased by Cobalt Networks for when Crystle was 32 years old.[2] He used the proceeds to fund several non-profit organizations and projects.[2] The software was incorporated into Sun Microsystems's Sun Java System Web Server.[3] He has been described as a "software wunderkind."[4]

He entered the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in an attempt to unseat Arlen Specter.[5] Interest in his candidacy the race was stoked when he told the Associated Press that he would consider spending $1 million of his own money on the race.[6]

References
  2. "An Interview with Charlie Crystle". PoliticsPA. Archived from the original on 2004-04-02.
  3. Gartner, John (August 19, 2003). "Software Exec Eyes Senate Seat". Wired. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009.
  4. "Charlie Crystle and the long climb back. The life of a software wunderkind: Seeing a niche, building the product. And then comes the hard part". Intelligencer Journal. March 20, 2005.
  5. Neri, Al (August 2003). "District historically Republican". The Insider. Archived from the original on 2007-10-13. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
  6. Neri, Al (August 2003). "Internet entrepreneur enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate". The Insider. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.