Jack Taub - What has he done?
Throughout his life, Jack presented himself as a man with integrity and vision.
Below is a little bit about Jack's past and what he accomplished.
Jack Taub had extensive experience with entrepreneurial initiatives and scaling massive rollouts of products and technology services. As Chairman and CEO of Scott Publishing Company (the publisher of the postage stamp catalog), he pioneered a new distribution system to the US Postal Service. That pioneering effort lead to all post offices becoming the retailing operations they currently are. The USPS has earned over $10B on expansion of Taub-originated strategies. For some time, over 33,000 post offices were selling Scott Publishing Company products, exclusively and very profitably.
In 1978, Jack developed and personally funded The Source, which became the world's first interactive consumer on-line company that began today's on-line industry. The Source begat America On-Line, and led to the consumerization of the Internet. Some of the industry's "firsts" influenced by Jack include: email, chat, advertising, education, commerce and training. In addition, The Source fueled the demand for personal computers by allowing for disparate PC operating systems to be transparent to the network. His early vision was a precursor to what is today evolving to be "cloud computing." Here is the original advertisement that appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
In 1980, Jack sold The Source to Reader's Digest for a significant profit. The Source had about 38,000 paying subscribers and was the only profitable on-line company at that time.
Following the sale of The Source, Jack funded a company called Community Digital Utility (CDU) with the vision of bringing education, entertainment, economic development, and social networking into every community. As these elements each became available separately, Jack moved on to a newer vision – transforming K-12 Education. He funded Emaginos to design and deliver a system capable of providing every child a customized education..
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In 1978, Jack developed and personally funded The Source, which became the world's first interactive consumer on-line company that began today's on-line industry. The Source begat America On-Line, and led to the consumerization of the Internet. Some of the industry's "firsts" influenced by Jack include: email, chat, advertising, education, commerce and training. In addition, The Source fueled the demand for personal computers by allowing for disparate PC operating systems to be transparent to the network. His early vision was a precursor to what is today evolving to be "cloud computing." Here is the original advertisement that appeared in the Wall Street Journal.
In 1980, Jack sold The Source to Reader's Digest for a significant profit. The Source had about 38,000 paying subscribers and was the only profitable on-line company at that time.
Following the sale of The Source, Jack funded a company called Community Digital Utility (CDU) with the vision of bringing education, entertainment, economic development, and social networking into every community. As these elements each became available separately, Jack moved on to a newer vision – transforming K-12 Education. He funded Emaginos to design and deliver a system capable of providing every child a customized education..
