Barry Martin Schuler was born on September 7,1953 and is an American Internet entrepreneur and former chairman and CEO of America Online Inc He is best known for leading the AOL team that simplified the online service provider's user interface, making it possible for millions of consumers to gain easy access to the Internet.
18 Facts About Barry Schuler
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Barry Schuler turned his family's basement into a darkroom while helping his father, a warehouse owner and part-time repair man, tinker with television sets and other gadgetry.
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An avid computer hobbyist and reader of Popular Electronics, Barry Schuler befriended a group of technical enthusiasts who were developing software applications for microcomputers.
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Barry Schuler quit CMP in 1988 and took a position as president and CEO of Cricket Software, overseeing the development and marketing of color desktop applications for Apple Computer's Macintosh, including a Postscript driven drawing program.
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Barry Schuler was President of San Francisco-based Jasmine Technologies from 1989 to 1990.
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Jasmine declared bankruptcy in March 1990 and Barry Schuler resigned shortly thereafter.
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Barry Schuler, brought over from Medior by AOL founder and CEO Steve Case, was charged with helping him and then president Ted Leonsis to transform the online service provider into a broad based, consumer-driven medium.
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Barry Schuler worked his way up the ranks at AOL becoming president of its Interactive Services group in 1998.
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Barry Schuler advocated the opening up of AOL's proprietary message service known as IM, a key development that allowed its subscriber base to "chat" electronically over the Internet with non-AOL computer users free of charge.
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Barry Schuler was charged with finding ways to turn AOL into an interactive outlet for Time-Warner's various media divisions, which included film, music, television and publishing.
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Barry Schuler stepped down as head of the unit in April 2002, taking over a newly created digital development unit charged with overseeing the formation of interactive digital products and services for all of AOL Time Warner.
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Shortly after his departure from AOL, Barry Schuler found himself invited to invest in a start up Ablation Industries, Inc Ablation Industries, Inc was commercializing USP laser technology funded by the US government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as DARPA.
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When Mr Barry Schuler invested in the company, the name of the company was changed to Raydiance, where he raised a significant amount of venture capital funding to help commercialize new technologies of national interest, among them ultrashort pulse lasers.
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In 2004, Barry Schuler joined Raydiance Inc to develop commercial applications for ultra-short pulse lasers.
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Barry Schuler co-produced and helped finance the film Look, a drama shot entirely from the point of view of surveillance cameras.
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Notable investments in Barry Schuler's portfolio include Coinbase, Formlabs, Foursquare, Giphy, Glowforge, Good, Helix, NotCo, Patreon, Tumblr, and Unity.
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Barry Schuler is a national advisory member for the New Technology Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1999 with the objective of achieving national education reform.
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Barry Schuler is a member of the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni.