What is Byron Reese's Net Worth?
Byron Reese is an American tech entrepreneur, author and speaker who has a net worth of $35 million dollars. A graduate of Rice University, Byron Reese was the founder and CEO of PageWise, Inc., and is now the Chief Innovation Officer for Demand Media, an online media conglomerate that is known for creating algorithms to track consumer interest and demand. Reese is the author of the book Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger and War, released March 12, 2013, in which he attempts to debunk the bleak forecasts of the world's future, calling them dangerous, and shows instead how technology will soon create a dramatically better world for every person on earth-'beyond anything we dare to imagine'.
Reese has founded several high-tech companies and has several patents in the works, or established, in areas as diverse and varied as crowd-sourcing, content creation and psychographics. His websites have received over a billion visitors. Reese is credited by Bloomberg Businessweek as having "quietly pioneered a new breed of media company" and the Financial Times described him as (one of) the "new wave of internet entrepreneurs out to turn the economics of the media industry on its head." Business Inside called him an "awesome guy." Reese currently serves as chief innovative officer for Demand Media (NYSE: DMD), overseeing research and development.
