CEO of JanRain, the creator of OpenID project for cross-site logins, leaves

May 17, 2007 | Matt Marshall

The CEO of startup JanRain, the company that created OpenID, has left the company.

Scott Kveton, writing on his blog, cites his long commute to JanRain’s Portland office

Kveton was at JanRain for about a year. OpenID allows an Internet user to log into multiple Web sites with a single ID. More than a thousand sites use it.

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Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.