Alan Spoon

{{short description|American business executive}}

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Alan G. Spoon (born June 4, 1951) is a business executive who left the Washington Post Company after 18 years, his final position being president and chief operating officer, to become a general partner at Polaris Ventures.{{cite news |last1=Barringer |first1=Felicity |title=Washington Post Executive Will Move to an Investment Fund |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/11/business/washington-post-executive-will-move-to-an-investment-fund.html |access-date=2 December 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=March 11, 2000}} Spoon served as Chief Operating Officer and a director of The Washington Post Company from March 1991 through May 2000 and President from September 1993 until May 2000.{{cite news |title=Katharine Graham Steps Down as Chairwoman of Washington Post |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-10-fi-33635-story.html |access-date=2 December 2020 |work=The LA Times |date=September 10, 1993}} At Polaris, he was General Partner and Partner Emeritus from 2011 to 2018 and Managing General Partner from 2000 to 2010. He became a director of IAC in February 2003.{{cite web |title=Alan Spoon |url=https://www.iac.com/about/leadership/board-directors/alan-spoon |website=IAC |access-date=2 December 2020}}

Spoon graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.{{cite news |title=3 Questions: Alan Spoon '73 on fostering leadership for MIT students |url=https://news.mit.edu/2012/3-questions-alan-spoon-73-fostering-leadership-mit-students |access-date=2 December 2020 |publisher=MIT News |date=April 30, 2012}}