Alumni Profile

Featured Alumnus: ANDREW BUSEY

Executive Vice President, Products (co-founder), Pluck
B.A., 1993

One of the early Internet pioneers, Andrew has been at the helm of many of the earliest success stories in the consumer Internet. He founded iChat, the breakthrough chat and instant messaging company that powered the initial Yahoo! chat service and is now part of Apple. Andrew also founded Living.com, the award-winning ecommerce company that brought furniture sales to the Internet. His earliest efforts include Spyglass Software, where he was the first product manager for the web browser that became Microsoft's Internet Explorer. He received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and completed a B.A. in computer science at Duke University.

Pluck's mission is to build great software that makes web browsing easier, more fun, and more relevant. Our products are designed to help you search, retrieve, organize and share web information, without ditching your browser or favorite websites.

In addition to the award-winning Pluck RSS Reader, we've created Shadows, a "community search engine" that lets you tag, comment, and rate web pages along with other users.

Pluck also offers blogging and RSS solutions ready to be embedded into Publisher and Portal web sites to build vibrant communities of citizen journalists and web content consumers while driving content generation and traffic at the same time.

Pluck was co-founded in 2003 by Dave Panos and Andrew Busey, two executives with entrepreneurial experience in some of the industry's earliest efforts in instant messaging, real-time collaboration, e-commerce, and e-learning.

Pluck is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has received funding from Austin Ventures and Mayfield.

If you have what it takes and like the problems Pluck is tackling, send your resume to jobs@pluck.com.

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