Scott Banister was born on 1975 and is an American entrepreneur, startup founder, and angel investor.
18 Facts About Scott Banister
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Scott Banister cofounded the anti-spam company IronPort, and he was an early advisor and board member at PayPal.
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Scott Banister is the son of Debbie and Bruce Scott Banister, a civil engineer who lived in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Scott Banister chafed against the confines of traditional education, and he began to treat college as a target to hack.
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Scott Banister devised workarounds to UIUC rules, including an audacious scheme in which he created a company, hired himself as an intern, then used the internship to earn course credit.
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Michael Ellsberg wrote that like other entrepreneurs, Scott Banister relentlessly looked at the outcome he wanted to produce in the world and relentlessly focused on how to achieve that outcome.
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Computerworld reported that Scott Banister got his first idea to capitalize on existing search engine workhorses to help retailers advertise their presence on the Web.
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Outside the classroom, Scott Banister had taught himself HTML, got a job as a webmaster working with faculty member Burks Oakley, and according to UIUC's Department of Computer Science, Alumni News, started three web companies: SponsorNet, the first advertising network and the first online auction for advertising space, Permalink.
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Scott Banister was the first of the three friends to leave for Silicon Valley and the first to sell a start-up.
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Scott Banister has worked with other start-ups as a board member and investor, including eVoice, the first email-enabled home voicemail service acquired by AOL in 2001.
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Scott Banister was an early investor in Powerset, a startup building a natural language search engine.
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Scott Banister invested in PayPal's earliest version, and he served as a founding board member.
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Scott Banister met his wife Cyan when she was managing IronPort's blacklist of spammers, and they married two years later.
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Scott Banister is a marijuana rights activist, supporting legalization in Arizona and other states.
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Scott Banister was a supporter of Republican Senator Rand Paul.
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In 2015, Scott Banister donated $3 million to a Super PAC supporting Paul's presidential bid.
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Scott Banister later switched his endorsement to Ted Cruz after Paul suspended his campaign.
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Cyan and Scott Banister won the Angel of the Year Crunchie award at the 2016 TechCrunch ceremonies.