Esther Dyson was born on 14 July 1951 and is a Swiss-born American investor, journalist, author, commentator and philanthropist.
13 Facts About Esther Dyson
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Esther Dyson is the executive founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project focused on improving equitable wellbeing.
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Esther Dyson's father was English-born, American-naturalized physicist Freeman Dyson, and her mother was mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson, of Swiss parentage; her brother is science historian George Dyson.
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Esther Dyson was educated at Harvard University where she studied economics and wrote for The Harvard Crimson.
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In 1983, when she bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, Esther Dyson renamed the company EDventure Holdings and his Rosen Electronic Letter newsletter Release 1.0.
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On 7 October 2008, Space Adventures announced that Esther Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi's trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009.
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In 1997, Esther Dyson wrote that as of that time she had never voted.
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Currently, Esther Dyson is a board member and active investor in a variety of start-ups, mostly in online services, health care, logistics, artificial intelligence, emerging markets, and space travel.
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Esther Dyson is an active member of a number of non-profit and advisory organizations.
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Esther Dyson opposed ICANN's 2012 expansion of generic top-level domains.
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Esther Dyson has followed closely the post-Soviet transition of Eastern Europe, from 2002 to 2012 was a member of the Bulgarian President's IT Advisory Council, along with Vint Cerf, George Sadowsky, and Veni Markovski, among others.
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Esther Dyson has served as a trustee of, and helped fund, emerging organizations such as Glasses for Humanity, Bridges.
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Esther Dyson was one of the first ten volunteers for George Church's Personal Genome Project where you can find her complete genome.