Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner | |
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Vivaldi browser | |
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Occupation(s) | Co-Founder & CEO of Vivaldi Technologies, Entrepreneur |
Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner (Icelandic: Jón; born 29 August 1967 in
Early life
Jon Stephenson von
Tetzchner holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Oslo.[2]
Opera Software
Tetzchner worked at the
On 21 April 2005, Tetzchner proclaimed at an internal meeting of Opera Software that if the download numbers of the browser's new version
Under his leadership, Jon turned Opera into a global company with more than 750 employees in 13 countries. Opera was an early pioneer in mobile web browser and more than 350 million people use Opera.
In January 2010, Tetzchner stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of
In June 2011, Tetzchner announced that he was leaving
Vivaldi Technologies
In December 2013, Tetzchner founded the company Vivaldi Technologies and launched the online community site vivaldi.net, which includes a forum, blogs, chat, photo sharing and a free email service named Vivaldi Mail.[9]
On 27 January 2015, Vivaldi Technologies announced the release of its new web browser Vivaldi.[10][11] Its 1.0 version came out in April 2016.[12] Vivaldi is self-funded.[9]
References
- ISSN 1017-3544.
- ^ a b c "About Opera, Executive team". Opera Software. Archived from the original on 14 December 2008. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ISBN 978-1-4739-8005-1.
- ^ "The one million download challenge of Opera 8: Opera's CEO will swim from Norway to the USA". Opera Software. 21 April 2005. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ a b Osborne, Brian (27 April 2005). "Opera CEO fulfills Download Challenge … sort of". Geek.com. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ "THE 1 MILLION DOWNLOAD CHALLENGE". Opera Web Browser. 26 April 2005. Archived from the original on 28 April 2005.
- ^ "Opera appoints Lars Boilesen new Chief Executive Officer". Opera Software. 5 January 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ Wilson, Dean (27 June 2011). "Opera co-founder resigns over disagreements". The Inquirer. Archived from the original on 16 June 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Lardinois, Frederic (23 January 2014). "Opera's Former CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Community Site And Email Service". TechCrunch. Retrieved 25 July 2014.
- ^ Dagenborg, Joachim (6 February 2015). "Vivaldi browser hits 500,000 downloads in first 10 days". Reuters. Oslo, Norway. Archived from the original on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ Shankland, Stephen (27 January 2015). "Ex-Opera CEO composes Vivaldi, a new Web browser". CNET. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ZDNet. Retrieved 3 December 2019.