Richard Lang is the Chairman, co-founder, and

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(Chief Executive Officer) of Democrasoft, Inc.

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Lang is a pioneer in the technology industry, having been the co-inventor of the world's first, patented, dual-deck

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(videocassette recorder) in 1983, and co-founder of his first public company,

Go-Video Go-Video was an electronics company that manufactured dual-deck VHS recorders for home use. The company was founded in 1983 by Terren Dunlap and Richard Lang as a solution for professionally duplicating videotapes for weddings, reunions and busi ...

, Inc. In 1987, Lang invented (and later patented) a solution for efficiently delivering video and audio programs over electronic networks, in "burst" mode, which created a foundation for today's

video-on-demand Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of o ...

and audio-on-demand systems. In 1990, he co-founded Explore Technology, which later became burst.com, to develop and license this technology. Beginning in 2005, Burst licensed "burst" mode media delivery and network optimization technology to Microsoft, Apple and other preeminent companies in the industry. It eventually sold most of the remaining legacy patents in late 2010 and early 2011. Lang is also the author of a family of new

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(IP) which addresses online collaboration methods and designs. Lang is the author of ''Virtual Country - Strategy for 21st Century Democracy''.http://www.virtualcountry.us Virtual Country - Strategy for 21st Century Democracy Lang resides in the San Francisco North Bay Area with his family and, in his spare time, is a composer and musician.

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