Lee Lorenzen
Lee Lorenzen is President, CEO of Altura Ventures, which invests in Facebook applications. Prior to Altura Ventures, he founded SHOP.COM and as CEO/Chairman led the company to becoming one of the largest shopping sites on the web. Lorenzen’s first start-up was Ventura Software where he co-wrote Ventura Publisher, later licensed to Xerox. Lorenzen founded Altura Software in 1990 and created the Mac2Win software which was used to port Mac applications to Windows. Lorenzen also founded Fractal Design Corporation, which went public in 1995 before acquired by Corel; and he co-founded PGSoft which was sold to Novell. Lorenzen has also worked at Xerox and Digital Research. Lorenzen graduating valedictorian from SMU with a BS in Computer Science.
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OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care
[Editor's note: This is an Op-Ed piece by Lee Lorenzen, an investor in Facebook applications.]
Last week, Google hosted a meet-up for Facebook application developers. The goal of the event was to promote its OpenSocial platform, which lets third party developers build applications for a range… Continue Reading