Teunis Steven Schuurman was born on September 1975 and is a Dutch technology and media entrepreneur, best known for co-founding and being the first CEO of Elastic, a data search and analytics company listed at the NYSE.
20 Facts About Steven Schuurman
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Steven Schuurman is the co-founder of Atlantis Entertainment, SpringSource and the founder of the non-profit organisations the Dreamery Foundation and FutureNL.
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In 2005, Steven Schuurman left Sogyo and became the co-owner and Director of the Amsterdam based JTeam, an Amsterdam-based software application development company.
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Months after joining JTeam, Steven Schuurman left and co-founded the open-source company SpringSource with Rod Johnson, Jurgen Holler, and Alef Arendsen.
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In December 2009, Steven Schuurman left VMware to come back to JTeam as the CEO.
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Steven Schuurman co-founded Elastic NV, formerly known by the name of its product Elasticsearch, with Shay Banon, Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer.
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In May 2017, Steven Schuurman stepped down as CEO of Elastic, and co-founder Shay Banon took over.
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Currently, Steven Schuurman serves on the board of directors of Elastic as a non-executive board director.
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Steven Schuurman serves on the board of directors of Atlantis Entertainment.
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Steven Schuurman has stated that he has limited interest in money and material items and plans to put his wealth to use for protecting future generations.
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In 2020, Steven Schuurman founded The Dreamery Foundation, which aims to positively contribute to keeping our planet habitable for future generations.
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Steven Schuurman has credited the extensive research of the effective altruism community as a major influence.
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Since September 2018, Steven Schuurman has been a board member at the Rijksmuseum Fund foundation.
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Steven Schuurman currently serves on the board of FutureNL as chairman.
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In 2021 Steven Schuurman joined The Giving Pledge, a campaign established by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade and recruit extremely wealthy people to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
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Steven Schuurman elaborated on his rationale to make these donations, and the reasons for making them openly, in the Dutch national newspaper Trouw.
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Steven Schuurman explicitly reported not to be a member of any political party, including D66 and Party for the Animals.
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In 2014 Steven Schuurman was listed on Goldman Sachs list of Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs.
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In 2015, Steven Schuurman won the LOEY award, Holland's Entrepreneur of the Year award for technology entrepreneurs.
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Steven Schuurman served as chairman of the board of Dutch scaleup Geophy from 2018 until 2020, and as a board member of Dutch non-profit Smart Parks Foundation from 2018 until 2021.