Questia founder moves on to stealth semantic startup PeoplePad
In 1998, a young New England lawyer frustrated with the difficulty of library research decided to scan and index every book in the world.
Troy Williams moved to Texas, raised $150 million, and started a company called Questia, and convinced hundreds of publishers to give Questia digital copyrights. To date, the company has somewhere north of 67,000 books and 1.5 million articles online.
But Williams, who became an expert on many of the Internet’s nascent technologies, moved… Continue Reading