Jews On The Internet

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Published on July 29, 2007 By Larry Kuperman In Internet

The question of how many Jews there are begs the definition of "What is a Jew?" and also "Who is a Jew?" Questions that have been asked many a time.....mostly by other Jews. Being a Secular Jew myself, I like the most liberal, inclusive definition that includes....well ME. The biggest number that you will see is about 18 million Jews. This works out to something like 1/4 of one per cent of the world's population. So you would expect that our impact on the Internet would be proportional to our numbers.

Not so, bubbala. (A term of endearment, darling. Can you feel me virtually pinching your cheek? In a nice way.) The impact of Jews far outweighs their numbers. Lets look at "Who's A Yid?"

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google. Larry Page's mom, Gloria Page, is Jewish. Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia, to Jewish parents, Michael and Eugenia, who fled to America for religious freedom.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, while he was a student at Harvard University. It was originally going to be limited to Harvard students, but expanded quickly. Zuckerberg saw the potential in the site and sought capital. He turned to Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Paypal and, not-so-coincidentally, also Jewish. Facebook is often rumored to be up for sale. How much is Facebook worth? Let me refer that to Mr. Thiel: "Facebook's internal valuation is around $8 billion based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015." Founder Mark Zuckerberg is 23, or as we like to say, 10 years past his Bar Mitzvah.

Robert Kevin Rose is, comparatively, an old man at age 30. He is best known for founding Digg.com. Robert lost his job during the burst of the Dot Com bubble, ended up working as a production assistant on the show The Screen Savers He began appearing on air and stepped in as host after Leo Laporte left TechTV. On November 1, 2004, he started a site that combined social bookmarking, blogging, RSS into arguably the premier tech news site. Today Digg is rated among the 100 most popular sites on the web.

Scott Blum has been referred to as the "Sam Walton of e-commerce." Leaving a successful career as a shoe salesman as a youth, he founded Microbanks, a company that sold add-on memory modules for Macintosh computers. Before his 21st birthday, he sold Microbanks to Sentron Technology in San Diego for $2.5 million in cash. He would then co-found Pinnacle Micro with his father. Leaving there under a cloud of dubious accounting practices (he paid no penalty and admitted no guilt) he would go on to found Buy.com. He left before went public, returned to take it back private and it is now his baby.

RealNetworks is not the most beloved company in the world, nor is Real Player a favorite product. But there is no question that CEO and Founder Rob Glaser has been influential. When he founded Real Networks in 1994, at age 31, he was already a millionaire from his days at Microsoft. He has had a major impact on the Internet.

Certainly also worth mentioning are Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, whose mother is Jewish; Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, who was born on the Lower East Side of New York to a Jewish mother and raised by his great-aunt and great-uncle in Chicago; and Phillipe Kahn, founder of Borland.

What would the Internet be like with Google, PayPal, Facebook, Digg.com, Buy.com? It would be very, very different.

Comments (Page 10)

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ZubaZ

on Jan 09, 2008

Phoon, what percentage of ones interaction with a people is the cut-off to apply a generalization? I happen to agree with Fuzzy that Americans as a general rule are arrogant about one thing or another. They've got a lot to be proud of for sure, but there is a very thin line between pride and arrogance.

Fuzzy's waving his UK pride flag right now and is edging towards the UK arrogance by accusing Americans of being arrogant.

Vicious, vicious circles.

Can't we go back to talking about Jews? I'm getting all verklempt.

137

RoseNell

on Jan 09, 2008

Andddd daaa why is the thread important to anyone????

Regarless of who you are or what religion??

138

Sed

on Jan 09, 2008

ONE thing to say.... I sold BEFORE the bubble burst! I can afford the time to read SING PRAISES

139

Sed

on Jan 09, 2008

TWO things..............

NICE TEETH!!

140

Sed

on Jan 09, 2008

TWO things..............

NICE TEETH!!

141

Sed

on Jan 09, 2008

Close this

142

WOM

on Jan 09, 2008

Hehe.

I'am an arrogant person but everyone is arrogant. They believe their country is the best or they are. Crap, thats pride. Someone knocks you/your belief/country/school or whatever, your ready to fight. Is that arrogance or pride or both. Whatever is the call, respect of another persons belief/way of like or whatever is needed. Ya don't have to agree or believe, just respect.

Oh, and if ya don't have a little arrogance or pride, ya just ain't worth much.

143

ZubaZ

on Jan 09, 2008

Oh, and if ya don't have a little arrogance or pride, ya just ain't worth much

Agreed!

144

Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 09, 2008

Fuzzy Logic sets calendar to resurrect (Ha!) this thread around Resurrection Day

Oh no you don't!

Fuzzy votes to have Zubaz banned from resurrecting threads...

145

Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 09, 2008

Fuzzy's waving his UK pride flag right now and is edging towards the UK arrogance by accusing Americans of being arrogant.

Thanks for reminding me. For the moment I'd forgotten how totally superior we are here. OMG! Can you imagine if I was Jewish to? Egads!

146

Fuzzy Logic

on Jan 09, 2008

Oh, and if ya don't have a little arrogance or pride, ya just ain't worth much

So true

147

DrJBHL

on Jan 09, 2008

Besides Kuperman's blog entry being completely self serving, the individual who wrote this is wearing the accomplishments of others as a badge or totem as if their accomplishments (not unique to the Jewish religion, and having nothing to do with it) somehow rub off on him.

Too bad...they don't. Oh, and why were the pictures necessary? Arrogance should be esched. Pride, if justified and reasonable in proportions is not a bad thing. Why is just one group singled out? They did not do this as a group. None of the "pseudostatistics" proving nothing mean anything.

What was this but a waste of time?

148

DrJBHL

on Jan 09, 2008

If I am reading Dr JO622's WinCustomize profile correctly, he is Male and 24 years old residing in the USA, which makes his serving from 1969 to 1970 in the IDF highly unlikely

In fact, I am 60, and don't know why age 24 appears on the profile. You did not write this "tongue in cheek", so don't try to back out of point that you try to assume the mantle of others' accomplishments.

149

SanChonino

on Jan 09, 2008

esched.

You mean eschewed? And . . . I don't agree. Arrogance, like humility, has its place and use . . .

150

DrJBHL

on Jan 09, 2008

You mean eschewed?

Yes...sorry, the keyboard (and my eyes...but mainly the keyboard) ain't what it used to be.

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