About
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’ve got this bio and a headshot if you need them for an article or conference.
I’m currently involved with these fine companies:
- Automattic (CEO)
- True Ventures (venture partner)
- Bandcamp (board member)
- Madefire (board member)
- Showyou (board member)
- Singly (advisor)
- Aurora Algae (angel investor)
Past companies:
- Sphere (co-founder, acquired by AOL)
- Yahoo (VP Developer Network)
- Oddpost (CEO, acquired by Yahoo)
- Uplister (CEO, out of business)
- Aureal Semiconductor (VP Technology, acquired by Creative Labs)
- Crystal River Engineering (Software Engineer, acquired by Aureal)
Recent press and awards:
- AllThingsD – Automattic grows up
- 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:
- Plug and Play Expo – Keynote
- Signal San Francisco – WordPress: Publishing at a Massive Scale
- Web 2.0 Summit – Point of Control: You
- 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 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!!!!!
ardalion.wordpress.com
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.
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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