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Jack Dangermond (born 1945) is an American billionaire businessman and environmental scientist, who in 1969 co-founded, with Laura Dangermond, the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately held geographic information systems (GIS) software company. [1] As of July 2023, his net worth was estimated at US$9.3 billion. [2]
In 1969, Esri was founded by the couple, Jack and Laura Dangermond, as Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), in Redlands, California. Esri was established when the couple started working on the technology to integrate human development with environmental stewardship at Harvard University’s lab for computer graphics and spatial ...
Jack Dangermond explains how ESRI’s software helps clients visualize the “relationships and patterns that run the world.” How ESRI’s founder scaled up from one-off projects to mapping the ...
[26] [27] The Laboratory was an enormous influence on the commercial Environmental Systems Research Institute, Esri, founded in 1969 by Jack Dangermond, a landscape architect graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design who had worked as a research assistant at the Laboratory during 1968 and 1969. Scott Morehouse, the development lead for the ...
Find out why Jack Dangermond made the 2024 TIME100 Climate list
Jack Dangermond. Net Worth: $8 billion. Although you’ve probably never heard of him, Jack Dangermond is a legend in his industry. In 1969, he founded Esri, the world’s leading GIS technology ...
Esri president and co-founder Jack Dangermond credits Ralph Nader with being the person who inspired the creation of GIS Day. [2] He considered the event a good initiative for people to learn about geography and the many uses of GIS. He wanted GIS Day to be a grassroots effort and open to everyone to participate.
The president of Esri, Jack Dangermond, announced SDE at the GIS'95 conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, [1] and Esri purchased Salamanca Software in 1996. [2] Esri rebranded the software as "ArcSDE" to follow the naming convention of other products.