Samir Arora

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Samir Arora
BITS.
OccupationFounder & CEO Sage Assist
Known forat Apple Inc., Chairman of Information Capital, Co-founder & former CEO NetObjects, Founder & former CEO of Mode Media, Founder Project Bento, Sage Digital AI
Websitewww.samirarora.com

Samir Arora (born November 5, 1965) is an

NetObjects, Inc. from 1995 to 2001 and at Apple Inc. from 1982 to 1991. Arora was selected as one of the 21 Internet Pioneers that shaped the World Wide Web at the 1st Web Innovators Awards by CNET in 1997.[1]

Early life and education

Samir Arora was born in

Birla Institute of Technology and Science.[2] Arora has an EMP from INSEAD, attended Executive Education at Harvard Business School, and holds a diploma in Sales and Marketing from the London Business School.[3]

Career

Samir Arora worked at

Apple[2] in Software and New Media from 1982 to 1991. Arora wrote a white paper called "Information Navigation: The Future of Computing" in late 1986[2] while working directly for the chairman and CEO of Apple,.[4] He left Apple to found the spin-off Rae Technology from Apple.[5][6]

From 1992 to 1995, Arora was chairman and chief executive officer of

Web sites to be designed, structured and created without programming.[7]

In 1997, after the launch of

Softbank in Japan.[11] Tickle was acquired by Monster.com
in May 2004.

In 2003, Mode Media (formerly Project Y and then Glam Media), Inc. was formed by a number of people including Arora.[12] Arora was the interim CEO of Glam Media from 2003 to 2005, and CEO from 2006 to 2016.[13] For his work at Mode Media, Arora was included by MIN Magazine in the Digital Hot List 2008[14] and was named Web 2.0's Don Draper as one of the 30 men shaping our digital future by GQ Magazine [15] On June, 2017, a year and a half after the departure of Samir Arora and Marc Andreessen, Mode Media U.S. was acquired, and in 2022 became a part of Static Networks. [16][17] Mode Media continued its operations in International and in January, 2017 an investment group Montaro purchased Mode Media in Japan. In March, 2017 shareholders appointed Samir Arora as the executive chairman of Mode Media in Japan.[18][19]

In April 2016, Samir Arora founded Sage Digital AI, a new AI verified experts platform startup and currently operates as its chairman. Sage began with 100 manually curated experts and has grown to 1M experts and influencers and 6 million businesses, with data ingestion that powered the early Sage AI Agents for Brands.[20][21]

In September 2021, Samir Arora founded Kyro Digital, one of the first Web 3.0 AI application—enablement platform. Kyro added Peter Leeb, Darshana Munde, Liz Thompson, Arfat Allarakha and Muoi Lam as co-founders and venture funds Drive Capital, Decasonic, Fenbushi Capital, Information Capital, LLC, Signum Capital, UOB Venture Management, Woodside Incubator and the web 3.0 companies Avalanche (Blizzard), Polygon, Rally, Tezos and Kadena and Brad Koenig as investors.[22]

In October 2024, Samir founded Sage Assist, a vertical generative AI company and serves as its CEO.


Patents

For his early work on the internet and web sites, Samir has been granted 18 US patents, including the first web site structure editor and HTML page layout editor Patents US patent 5911145  US patent 5845299 

Philanthropic

Since February 2004, Arora has been the Chairman of International Zen Therapy Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization based in Honolulu, that was founded by Dub Leigh with

Ōmori Sōgen[23][24]

In July 2020, Arora with Marcus Samuelsson, Derek Evens, and Brad Koenig created Project Bento Fund, a California nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation to provides urgent support to restaurants, local, minority-owned, women-led and BIPIOC businesses and their employees most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic, racial and social crisis.[25]

Books

Arora was editor and publisher of the annual awards and book Foodie Top 100 Restaurants with contributing top food critics

Kundo Koyama, Yuki Yamamura, Karen Brooks, Phil Vettel, Marie-Claude Lortie, Erika Lenkert and Diane Tapscott [26][27]

Bibliography

  • Doug Menuez: Fearless Genius. The Digital Revolution in Silicon Valley 1985−2000. Atria Books, New York 2014. P. 150−167.

References

  1. ^ Shafer, Dan. "BUILDER.COM - Web Business - The 1st annual Web Innovator Awards - Samir Arora, NetObjects Fusion". CNET Builder.com. CNET Networks, Inc. Archived from the original on 2001-05-05.
  2. ^ a b c Davidson, Andrew (June 22, 2008). "Glam.com Samir Arora boss is in the pink". Times Online. London: Times Newspapers Ltd. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved June 23, 2008.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "FACE TO FACE - NET LUMINARY - vnunet.com". 2007-09-30. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 2016-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ISBN 9781476752730
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  5. ^ InfoWorld. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. 1994-01-17.
  6. ^ InfoWorld. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. 1993-02-22.
  7. ^ "Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) Winners 1995–1999". Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Archived from the original on 1998-05-19. Retrieved June 27, 2008.
  8. ^ Sreenivas, I. Satya (May 18, 1997). "NetObjects chooses Big Blue fusion". Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-03-05.
  9. ^ "February 5, 1999 Form S-1 Filing". SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. Retrieved June 23, 2008.
  10. ^ "Emode Names Samir Arora Chairman of the Board, Enters Media Metrix Top 50". ADVFN PLC. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
  11. ^ Juan Carlos Perez. "Social networking site Emode tickles Ringo". Infoworld. Archived from the original on August 8, 2007. Retrieved February 28, 2008.
  12. ^ "Leadership - Mode Media". Mode Media. Archived from the original on June 17, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  13. ^ Ha, Anthony (4 April 2016). "Samir Arora is stepping down as CEO of Mode Media". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  14. ^ "min magazine 2008 The Digital Hot List: Samir Arora". min Online. Access Intelligence, LLC. Retrieved November 23, 2008.
  15. ^ "Digital Top 30". GQ Magazine.
  16. Wall Street Journal
    . Retrieved 2016-09-16.
  17. ^ Ha, Anthony. "BrideClick acquires Mode Media". TechCrunch.
  18. ^ Ha, Anthony. "Mode Media Japan lives on, with founder Samir Arora as chairman". TechCrunch.
  19. Venturebeat
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  20. ^ Ha, Anthony. "Samir Arora unveils Sage Digital, a startup that is all about accurate location data". TechCrunch.
  21. BuzzMachine
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  22. ^ Kelly, Erron. "Kyro raises $10M for next-gen crypto marketplace platform". VentureBeat.
  23. ^ "Non Profit Registration, DCCA BREG".
  24. ^ "About IZII, International ZenTherapy Institute".
  25. ^ McCafferty, Hugo. "Chef Samuelsson's Project Bento - a New Platform for Food Non-Profits".
  26. ISBN 978-1452127910
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  27. ^ "Foodie Top 100 Restaurants 2016 Awards".
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