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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 ...
In 1969, he founded Esri, the world’s leading GIS technology firm, with $1,100 in personal savings. Today, Esri commands 40% of the global geographic information system market and Dangermond is ...
[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 ...
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 ...
Find out why Jack Dangermond made the 2024 TIME100 Climate list
Jack Dangermond: Founder of ESRI consulting firm, the largest manufacturer and seller of GIS in the world Student (1967) Honorary Doctorate (2005) [31] Eddy Hartenstein: Co-president of Tribune Company; publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Times Magazine: Student (B.S. Aerospace Engineering 1971) [32] Kevin Lyman
There are also many lesser-known billionaires such as GIS guru Jack Dangermond ($8.4 billion) or Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong ($8.9 billion), who invented Abraxane, a drug used to treat cancer.