Larry founded Janrain in 2005 to address the challenge of managing user identity on the Internet. In its early days, Janrain drove the development of the majority of the open source OpenID protocol libraries that continue to be used today by organizations such as Google and Yahoo!, and was a founding member of the OpenID Foundation, a nonprofit governance organization for the industry. Prior to Janrain, Larry was a co-founder of Silicon Valley startups Desktop.com, a web-based service, and Four11 Corporation. At Four11 Corporation, Larry led the development of its RocketMail product, one of the first Internet-based email systems. Four11 was acquired by Yahoo! in 1997, and its RocketMail product became Yahoo! Mail. Earlier in his career, Larry did software development for Raynet, McDonnell Douglas and A.G. Edwards.
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When one of the best and most respected research firms in the world says that a company is cool, people listen. And this week, Gartner included Janrain in their 2013 Cool Vendors in Social Marketing report. How cool is that? We’re thrilled to be honored with membership into Gartner’s “cool social technology” club (our words, [...]
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Today we announced our series C funding, $33 million of new investment from four new firms and all of our current investors. We are humbled and honored by the trust our new partners have placed in us, and are equally grateful for the relationship we have had with our existing investors, all of whom have [...]
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Last week I was pleased to announce the arrival of Lewis Barr as Janrain’s Vice President of Privacy and Legal. I’m excited about this appointment not only because Lewis is a great guy with an impressive resume, but also because what it demonstrates about our company – that we are absolutely committed to operating with [...]
