Bill Gross is the founder and chairman of Idealab, a technology incubator he founded in 1996. Earlier in his career, he started a solar energy company while in high school, patented a loudspeaker design in college, then started a company that was later acquired by Lotus and launched an educational software publishing company. He is known for founding Idealab and for helping create GoTo.com and the Snap! search engine.
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