Jon Fisher
{{short description|Entrepreneur}}
{{for|the rugby coach and former player|Jon Fisher (rugby union)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jon Fisher
| image = Jon Fisher at Lowenstein Bat Mitzvah June 2024.jpg
| caption = Fisher at Lowenstein Bat Mitzvah June 2024
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|1|19}}
| birth_place = Stanford, California
| education = Vassar College, University of San Francisco{{cite web|url=http://www.usfca.edu/Newsroom/San_Francisco_Advantage/The_Next_Big_Thing__USF_Startup_Founder_Jon_Fisher_Powers_Google_Glass/|title=The Next Big Thing: USF Startup Founder Powers Google Glass|publisher=USF Newsroom|date=September 9, 2014|accessdate=September 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706175235/http://www.usfca.edu/Newsroom/San_Francisco_Advantage/The_Next_Big_Thing__USF_Startup_Founder_Jon_Fisher_Powers_Google_Glass/|archive-date=July 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}
| occupation = Entrepreneur, speaker
| spouse = Darla Kincheloe Fisher
}}
Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. As of 2021, Fisher is the CEO and a co-founder of software company ViciNFT.{{Cite web |last=Reid |first=Calvin |date=20 April 2021 |title=Wiley Teams with Author to Create NFT Author Trading Card |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/86126-wiley-teams-with-author-to-create-nft-author-trading-card.html |website=Publishers Weekly}}{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=David |date=30 August 2022 |title='Doing Good' Gets Boost on ViciNFT's $1.8M Charity NFT Haul |url=https://www.techtimes.com/articles/279876/20220830/doing-good-gets-boost-on-vicinft-s-1-8m-charity-nft-haul.htm |access-date=30 August 2022 |website=Tech Times}} As a co-founding CEO, Fisher built multiple companies including Bharosa—which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager and sold to Oracle Corporation for a reported $50 million in 2007,{{cite news | url = https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/04/06/the-founders-crowdoptic-brings-context-to-social-with-augmented-reality-app/ | newspaper = The Wall Street Journal | title = THE FOUNDERS: CrowdOptic Brings 'Context To Social' With Augmented Reality App | accessdate = 5 March 2019}} NetClerk—now part of Roper Technologies, AutoReach—now part of AutoNation, {{cite web|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/792438/lan-wan-oracle-delivers-the-fruit-of-its-bharosa-acquisition.html|title=Oracle delivers the fruit of its Bharosa acquisition|author=Dave Kearns|date=October 27, 2008|publisher=Network World}}{{cite news | url = https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/04/06/the-founders-crowdoptic-brings-context-to-social-with-augmented-reality-app/ | title = CrowdOptic Brings Context to Social with Augmented Reality App| newspaper = Wall Street Journal | accessdate = 11 September 2016}}{{cite web | url = http://www.businessinsider.com/an-obsession-with-oracle-made-this-founder-rich-and-now-hes-invented-a-way-to-look-through-walls-2016-7 | title = A fascination with Oracle made this founder rich, and now he's invented a way to look through walls | website = Business Insider | accessdate = 11 July 2016}} and CrowdOptic.
Early life and education
Fisher was born in Stanford, California to university professors Gerald and Anita Fisher. His father is a nuclear physicist at Stanford.{{cite web | url = http://news.stanford.edu/news/1997/august27/bloch.html | title = Physics Tank razed to pave way for completion of SEQ | publisher = Stanford Report | date = 27 August 1997 | accessdate = 23 March 2015 | author = Trei, Lisa|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402091419/http://news.stanford.edu/news/1997/august27/bloch.html|archive-date=2015-04-02}} Fisher graduated from The Nueva School and Crystal Springs Uplands School, and attended Vassar College before graduating from the University of San Francisco.{{cite news|title=Jon Fisher|url=http://venturebeatprofiles.com/person/jon-fisher/|work=VentureBeat|accessdate=1 April 2013|archive-date=7 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107164330/http://venturebeatprofiles.com/person/jon-fisher/|url-status=usurped}}
Career
File:Jon Fisher toned- Wiki-135.jpg commencement, 2018]]
In 1994, Fisher cofounded and was chief executive officer of AutoReach,{{cite news |url=http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748703792204578219670953944296.html?mod=googlenews_barrons |title= Patently Obvious? Score One for the Big Guys|date= January 12, 2013|newspaper=Barron's|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201221538/http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052748703792204578219670953944296.html?mod=googlenews_barrons|archive-date=2014-02-01}} now an AutoNation company.{{cite web |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/chris-obrien/ci_20943675/obrien-jon-fisher-says-selling-and-not-ipo |title=O'Brien: Jon Fisher says selling company -- and missing out on IPO -- should be every entrepreneur's goal |date=26 June 2012 |accessdate=2 July 2012}} Former Oracle President and recent Hewlett Packard chairman Ray Lane was Fisher's first angel investor and also invested in two of Fisher's later start ups.{{Cite web|url=http://sandhill.com/article/crowdoptics-jon-fisher-warns-software-startup-ceos-buck-the-trends/|title = CrowdOptic's Jon Fisher Warns Software Startup CEOs: Buck the Trends - Sand Hill Group|date = 11 April 2013}} In 1998, Fisher was the co-founder and CEO of the business software company, NetClerk, Inc., now part of Roper Technologies.{{cite news | url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/roper-technologies-to-buy-constructconnect-for-632-million-1477915845 | title = Roper Technologies to Buy ConstructConnect for $636 million| newspaper = The Wall Street Journal | accessdate = 31 October 2016}} The company created the online construction permit.{{cite news | url = http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1999/08/30/story7.html?page=all | title = NetClerk: Building permits are just a mouse click away | author = Lynn Graebner | newspaper = Silicon Valley Business Journal | date = 29 August 1999 | accessdate = 31 October 2014}}{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E6DE1131F93BA1575BC0A9669C8B63&scp=1&sq=netclerk&st=cse|title=Compressed Data; A San Francisco Company Learns What a Mayor Can Do for Business|author=Laurie J. Flynn|date = August 28, 2000|newspaper=New York Times|accessdate=October 22, 2010}} In 2004, Fisher cofounded and was chief executive officer of Bharosa, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jul/bharosa.html|title=Oracle Buys Online Identity Theft and Fraud Detection Leader Bharosa|publisher=Oracle press release|accessdate=October 22, 2010|date=July 18, 2007|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514041952/http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jul/bharosa.html|archivedate=May 14, 2008}}
=Academic career=
Fisher is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.{{cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/03/23/treasurys-bailout-plan-first-stop-handing-out-cash/|title=Treasury's Bailout Plan: First, Stop Handing Out Cash|author=Heidi N, Moore|accessdate=October 22, 2010|publisher =Wall Street Journal blog|date=March 23, 2009}} Fisher has written a book, Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths, which was published in 2008 by SelectBooks.{{cite book|title= Strategic Entrepreneurism : Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths|last= Fisher|first= Jon|year= 2008|publisher= SelectBooks, Inc.|location= New York|isbn= 978-1-59079-189-9|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/strategicentrepr0000fish}}
Fisher's second book, I Took the Only Path to See You, was published in 2021 by Wiley Publishers.{{Cite web |last=Lavars |first=Sherry |date=September 2020 |title=Anticipation builds for Jon Fisher - penned 'I took the only path to see you' after viral commencement speech |url=https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/inspire/down-to-business/anticipation-builds-for-jon-fisher-penned-i-took-the-only-path-to-see-you-after-viral-commencement-speech |website=Reader's Digest}} The publisher also issued a non-fungible token (NFT) to promote the book.{{cite web | url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/86126-wiley-teams-with-author-to-create-nft-author-trading-card.html | publisher = Publishers Weekly | title =Wiley Teams with Author to Create NFT Author Trading Card | accessdate = 21 April 2021}}
=Honors=
- American City Business Journals Forty Under 40 (2006){{cite news|url=http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/10/09/focus16.html|title= 40 People to Watch: Jon Fisher|accessdate=October 22, 2010|publisher= Silicon Valley — San Jose Business Journal|date=October 8, 2006}}
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year, Emerging Category (2007){{cite video |date= July 3, 2007|title= Jon Fisher Bharosa (Oracle '07) E&Y 2007 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQOFlVErsO0 |format=Flash file |accessdate= October 22, 2010|time= :20 to :35}}
Personal life
Fisher is married to Darla Kincheloe Fisher and has a daughter.{{Cite web |title=Board of Directors: Board Chair Jon Fisher |url=https://www.aquariumofthebay.org/about/board-of-directors/ |website=Aquarium of the Bay}}
Fisher has been a trustee of the Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA and was a member of their 2008 capital campaign team.{{cite web | url = https://moneyinc.com/entrepreneur-jon-fisher/ | publisher = Money Inc. | title = 10 Things You Didn't Know About Entrepreneur Jon Fisher| date = 31 July 2019 | accessdate = 6 August 2019}} He has also been a trustee of the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation in South San Francisco and he has been on the board of the Buck Institute For Age Research. Fisher was a major fundraiser for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.{{cite web |url = https://www.marinij.com/2020/02/24/marin-volunteers-stump-for-presidential-candidates-as-primary-nears/ | publisher = Marin Independent Journal | title = Marin volunteers stump for presidential candidates as primary nears | date = 25 February 2020 | accessdate = 2 November 2020}}{{cite news | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2019/10/03/the-technology-202-joe-biden-is-raising-some-money-in-silicon-valley-but-he-s-losing-the-ideas-primary-there/5d94d0e688e0fa50a6e1be57/ | newspaper = Washington Post | title =The Technology 202: Joe Biden is raising some money in Silicon Valley. But he's losing the ideas primary there. | accessdate = 2 November 2020}}{{cite web |url = https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Here-are-the-Bay-Area-and-Silicon-Valley-bigwigs-15692883.php | publisher = San Francisco Chronicle | title = Here are the Bay Area and Silicon Valley bigwigs who raised huge sums for Biden| date = 3 November 2020 | accessdate = 3 November 2020}} As of 2024, Fisher is the chairman of Bay Ecotarium including San Francisco Aquarium of the Bay.{{Cite web |last=Duggan |first=Tara |date=May 22, 2024 |title=Exclusive: CEO of S.F.'s waterfront aquarium resigns amid concerns about lavish spending |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/ceo-aquarium-of-the-bay-sf-forced-resign-19470641.php |access-date=May 23, 2024 |website=San Francisco Chronicle}}
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