Primary Job Title CoFounder and CEO Primary Organization 
CrowdChat
Location Palo Alto, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
Website www.crowdchat.net Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
John Furrier CEO and cofounder of CrowdChat and is founder/Co-CEO of SiliconANGLE MEDIA which consists of SiliconANGLE.com; Wikibon.org; and @theCUBE. Formerly the Founder and CEO of PodTech, a Palo Alto based podcasting media company, Since 2001 John has been the CEO of Broadband Developments a consulting and new ventures incubator.
Before BroadDev, John was the Vice President of the Product Group and Vice President of Strategic Development for RealNames, an Internet search and naming company. From 1996-1999 John was the founder and CEO of Labrador Software paid keyword search and navigation company.
John also has experience at large technology companies, having started his career and spent 9 years at Hewlett-Packard in various technical, marketing, and sales roles.
John has a BS in Computer Science from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College F.W. Olin School of Business.
