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Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop, Jr. (born January 7, 1952) is an American investor who is a partner in Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital firm. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates in Menlo Park, California. He was an editor-in-chief and executive vice-president of '' InfoWorld'', a weekly magazine for information-technology professionals.
Alsop previously founded Industry Publishing Company, which published a fortnightly newsletter for computer industry insiders and produced the Agenda and Demo conferences for executives of companies in the computer industry. Before 1985, Stewart served in several editorial positions at business and trade magazines, including '' Inc.'' Stewart received a Bachelor of Arts in English from
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop, Jr. (born January 7, 1952) is an American investor who is a partner in Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital firm. He was a general partner with New Enterprise Associates in Menlo Park, California. He was an editor-in-chief and executive vice-president of '' InfoWorld'', a weekly magazine for information-technology professionals.
Alsop previously founded Industry Publishing Company, which published a fortnightly newsletter for computer industry insiders and produced the Agenda and Demo conferences for executives of companies in the computer industry. Before 1985, Stewart served in several editorial positions at business and trade magazines, including '' Inc.'' Stewart received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Occidental College
Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is one of the oldes ...
in 1975.
His father was Stewart Alsop
Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop (May 17, 1914 – May 26, 1974) was an American newspaper columnist and political analyst.
Early life
Alsop was born and raised in Avon, Connecticut, from an old Yankee family. Alsop attended Groton School and Yale ...
; his uncle, Joseph Alsop.
:"Stewart Alsop has played a number of different roles in this business. Despite his considerable expertise, he works very hard to keep the perspective of the reasonable businessperson asking what exactly does this mean for me. It is very much in the intellectual tradition of his family to speak and write articulately about things in a way that makes sense to ordinary people."
Alsop's failed prediction on the death of the mainframe in the March 1991 issue of InfoWorld prompted a huge debate:
References
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