Marc Canter is an American internet entrepreneur, speaker, technology evangelist and early pioneer of online software, and is often called the "godfather of multimedia".
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16 Facts About Marc Canter
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Canter is a CEO of Instigate, Inc Marc is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of MacroMind, the company that became Macromedia.
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Singer in childhood, Marc Canter enrolled in Oberlin College intending to become an opera singer, and was exposed there to synthesizers, computer music, and building and coding computers.
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Marc Canter dropped out of graduate school to work for Bally-Midway, programming music and graphics for video games.
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Marc Canter coded one of the earliest pieces of licensed music content .
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Marc Canter co-founded MacroMind in 1984, the company that later became Macromedia, and began developing for the newly launched Apple Macintosh.
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Marc Canter launched MacroMind with the idea of it being a "software rock and roll band", and the company created the first multimedia player, the first cross-platform authoring system and the world's leading multimedia platform.
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At MacroMind, Marc Canter was involved in one of the first known cases of a virus being distributed via commercial software.
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Analysis later revealed that Marc Canter's computer was infected with the virus while he was working on training material for the software products.
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Marc Canter was a major proponent of the CD-ROM being a vehicle for interactive video, serendipitously around the time Windows 95 operating system was released.
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Marc Canter was founder and CEO of Broadband Mechanics, a digital lifestyle aggregator company.
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In 2014, Marc Canter launched Thingface, an authoring tool for developers to create Internet of things-related mobile applications.
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In 2017 Marc Canter co-founded Instigate, an AI company that is a new way for Creators to tell stories with interactive features and real engagement.
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Marc Canter is a contributor to many open standards efforts and advocates for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the "Identity Gang", and a co-signer of the Social Web Users' Bill of Rights.
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