Hi. I’m Toni Schneider.
I live in San Francisco with my wife and kids, and I work for Automattic and True Ventures. I like technology startups, cars, and alternative energy. Once upon a time I grew up in Switzerland, then moved to California for college.
I’m currently involved with these fine companies:
- Automattic (CEO)
- True Ventures (Venture Partner)
- Bandcamp (board member)
- Vodpod (board member)
- BackType (advisor)
- Aurora Biofuels (angel investor)
Past companies:
- Sphere (co-founder, acquired by AOL)
- Yahoo (VP Developer Network)
- Oddpost (CEO, acquired by Yahoo)
- Uplister (co-founder, out of business)
- Aureal Semiconductor (VP Technology, acquired by Creative Labs)
- Crystal River Engineering (Software Engineer, acquired by Aureal)
Recent press and awards:
- WPVibe – Interview
- Blick am Abend – Wie Toni das Netz eroberte
- Crunchies – Startup CEO of the Year Award
- New York Times – Times Company invests in Automattic
- Wall Street Journal – Blog Software Firm Gets $29 Million in Financing
- L’Expansion – Le succès de WordPress est celui du modèle open source
- CBS Wallstrip – Wallstrip interview
- PodTech – Scoble Show interview
- Business 2.0 – The Startup Type
- GigaOm – Yahoo Exec Exits For Automattic CEO Gig
- PaidContent- Toni Schneider Leaves Yahoo
- Morten Lund – Oddpost Did It
- CNET- Yahoo Acquires Oddpost
- Wired – Frugal Oddpost Is Downturn Baby
Recent speaking engagements:
- Web 2.0 Summit (coming up)
- UCSB – TMP Lecture Series
- Freemium Summit – The Business of Free (slides)
- Technopark Zurich – Erfahrungen als CEO und VC
- EconSM – Getting Real: Grown-Up Start Ups
- SxSW 2007 – Why Marketers Need To Work With People Media
- SxSW 2006 – The New Startup Cultures
- Web 2.0 Summit – Harnessing Collective Intelligence (photo)
- Web 2.0 Conference – Open vs Closed Models
- Foo Camp – Opening up Yahoo
- SDForum – Startup SIG (photos)
- TiEcon – Bootstrapping Startups
If you need a bio or photo of me for an article or conference, please try this and this.
If you want to know even more about me, feel free to check out my resume.
Contact: t@toni.org
Hey Toni!
Great to find you. I just sent you an email.
Talk soon,
Rick
I am new and I am looking to find my way to this channel.
I wish you the best for your work and for your life.
A very happy new year!!!!!
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Hello Toni,
I am real interested in finding a diesel landcruiser to run biodiesel. Thanks for the info. I am also here in SF. I have been checking craidslist and ebay for canadian models. I am also researching an engine conversion.
regards
Brad
Will someday want to have a resume as impressive as yours. You are good.
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Another Mr. Schneider says Hi and wishes all the best.
Love your blog, btw.
Hello Toni,
At the outset, I would like to thank you for giving us such a great platform for expressing ourselves. I had always loved writing, but did not have the avenue to do it. WordPress has shown me the way. And, I have just added http://toni.org/ to my blog roll, as I felt that my work will always remain incomplete, if I do not acknowledge the contribution that you have made to me and numerous others.
Best regards
Arup Deb
http://arupbytes.wordpress.com/
Happy New Year 2009
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