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Janrain
Janrain, sometimes styled as JanRain, is a customer profile and identity management (CIAM) software provider based in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was established in 2002. Akamai acquired Janrain in January 2019. History Janrain was founded in Portland in 2002 by Larry Drebes, who is the company's chief technology officer (CTO), and former chief executive officer (CEO). The firm's name "references a wet January in Portland", and has been described as a "leading provider of customer profile and identity management". According to ''Forbes'', Drebes recognized the value of social media in 2004 and predicted the need for users to manage their online identities. He helped create the OpenID protocol, which has been called a "decentralized authentication method for the new Web". Janrain was a founding member of the OpenID Foundation and has advocated for OpenID. As a privately held company, Janrain has grown steadily since its inception. In December 2009, Janrain raised US$3.25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Drebes
Larry Drebes (born April 20, 1967) is an American businessman and the co-Entrepreneur, founder of Janrain, RocketMail, Four11 Corporation, and Desktop.com. He was also an early leader of the OpenID initiative, which was widely supported by Google, Yahoo!, and other providers of online identity. Career In 1992, Drebes was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Four11 Corporation, the parent company of Rocketmail, an early webmail provider. Four11 was acquired by Yahoo in October 1997 for $97 million, and RocketMail became Yahoo! Mail. Drebes then founded Desktop.com in 1999 and secured $29 million in financing. The company was shut down in 2001 after giving back about half the venture capital it received. In 2002, Drebes began working closely with the early proponents of the OpenID protocol. In response to his work, he founded Janrain in 2002 to build software for user management based on OpenID. The company is perhaps best known for its identifier, social ID login t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
