Marc Porat is founder of six companies including General Magic.
12 Facts About Marc Porat
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Marc Porat launched three companies in the built environment: Serious Materials, Zeta Communities, and CalStar Cement and was a member of the US China Green Energy Council.
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Marc Porat was educated at Columbia College, where he graduated in 1972.
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Marc Porat then continued his graduate studies at Stanford University and authored a pivotal work entitled The Information Economy as his doctoral thesis in which he predicted the transition from a manufacturing-based US economy to one based on information.
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Marc Porat was a direct broadcast satellite innovator that built and operated television and data networks for Fortune 500 companies and governments.
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Marc Porat co-founded General Magic in 1990 with Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson from the original Mac team.
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Marc Porat built an early handheld communications device called Magic Link.
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Marc Porat served as CEO from 1990 to 1996 and took the company public in 1995 at a valuation of $834M.
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In 2002, Marc Porat co-founded Serious Materials, a company manufacturing high-efficiency windows and drywall.
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Marc Porat then founded CalStar Products in 2007, a firm recovering energy from industrial waste streams.
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Marc Porat co-founded Zeta Communities in 2007, a firm designing and manufacturings net-zero energy multifamily housing that won the Green Builder Home of the Year Award.
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Marc Porat was born to Frieda and Dan Marc Porat in Israel and grew up in England.