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阿兰·罗斯曼(英语:Alain Rossmann,1956年[1]),法国人,工程师、企业家。他曾是早期苹果公司麦金塔电脑团队的成员,后来一共创办了9家公司,其中3家上市(Radius[2] 、C-Cube[3]、Unwired Planet[4]),3家被收购(EO被AT&T收购[5]、Vudu被沃尔玛收购[6]、PSS Systems被IBM收购[7]),2家解散(Zonbu[8]、Klip[9])。第九家是他现在的公司Machinify[10]

生平

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1979年,阿兰·罗斯曼从法国综合理工学院毕业,获得数学和物理学学士学位[11][12]。1981年,他在法国国立桥梁与道路高等工程学校获得土木工程硕士学位[11],1983年在美国斯坦福大学获得工商管理硕士学位[10]

1983年至1986年,罗斯曼担任苹果公司麦金塔电脑部门的首席推广人。[10][13][14]他与乔安娜·霍夫曼共事,两人随后结婚。[15][16] 之后,他创立了Radius,一家生产麦金塔电脑外围设备的公司,1986年至1989年,他担任营销和销售副总裁[2][10],该公司于1990年上市。[17]

1988年,罗斯曼、孙燕生亚历克斯·巴尔坎斯基吉姆·拉弗蒂四人联合创办了C-Cube公司。[18]1989年至1992年,他担任领先的MPEG集成电路开发商C-Cube的运营副总裁[3],该公司在亚历克斯·巴尔坎斯基的领导下于1994年上市,2001年被LSI Logic收购。[19]

进入手写运算领域后,罗斯曼于1992年至1994年担任EO的首席执行官。该公司制造并销售EO个人通讯器。1993年,该公司被AT&T收购。[5] 1993年,他与同事西兰斯特·巴兰斯基凭借该产品获得了《发现》杂志颁发的发现奖。[20]

在早期的智能手机开发中,罗斯曼于1994年至2001年创立了Unwired Planet(后来更名为 Phone.com,然后是Openwave,最后又改回Unwired Planet)。该公司开发了用于智能手机移动浏览器无线应用协议[21] 该公司于1999年上市。[4][22]

创立Unwired Planet之后,罗斯曼于2001年6月至2010年10月创立了信息生命周期管理公司PSS Systems,并担任其董事长兼首席执行官。该公司于2010年被IBM收购。[7]

罗斯曼的在线电影服务Vudu被沃尔玛收购。[6] 2005年6月至2010年3月,他担任该公司创始人兼首席执行官。[23]

2006年4月至2007年12月,罗斯曼担任订阅式个人电脑制造商Zonbu的创始人兼董事长。[8]

2011年3月至2015年1月,罗斯曼在社交视频初创公司Klip,Inc.担任创始人兼首席执行官。[9][10]

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  1. ^ Annie Kahn. Un Français au cœur du réseau. lemonde.fr. 1998-11-08 [2016-10-28]. .
  2. ^ 2.0 2.1 Stanford's Progeny: A Sampling (PDF). Business Week. 1997-08-25 [2015-10-24]. (原始内容 (PDF)存档于2012-12-22). 1986 Radius: Mike Boich, Burrell Smith, Alain Rossmann, Andy Hertzfeld 
  3. ^ 3.0 3.1 BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; Chip Leads Way to New Video Products. New York Times. 1990-02-21 [2015-10-24]. Alain Rossmann, C-Cubed's vice president, 
  4. ^ 4.0 4.1 The Top Entrepreneurs. Business Week. 2000-01-10 [2015-10-24]. (原始内容存档于2016-01-21). In five years, ALAIN ROSSMANN's Phone.com (PHCM), formerly known as Unwired Planet, ... Phone.com stock has soared 1,500%, to around $130, since its June initial public offering. 
  5. ^ 5.0 5.1 Kaplan, Samuel Jerold. Startup : a Silicon Valley adventure. New York: Penguin Books. 1994. ISBN 0-14-025731-4. 
  6. ^ 6.0 6.1 Stone, Brad. Wal-Mart Adds Its Clout to Movie Streaming. New York Times. 2010-02-22 [2015-10-24]. In 2008, Vudu’s chief executive left the company and was replaced by Alain Rossmann, a co-founder who was an early Apple executive and a pioneer in making the Web accessible from cellphones. 
  7. ^ 7.0 7.1 IBM Acquires PSS Systems (新闻稿). IBM. 2010-10-13 [2010-10-13]. 
  8. ^ 8.0 8.1 Markoff, John. A PC That Uses Less Energy, but Charges a Monthly Fee -. New York Times. 2007-07-16 [2015-10-24]. That led him and Mr. Rossmann, a former Apple executive who has started many Silicon Valley companies, to pursue the possibility of creating an appliancelike computer tailored to consumers who have no computer expertise. 
  9. ^ 9.0 9.1 Clark, Don. Startup Veteran Takes On Mobile Video with Klip. Wall Street Journal. 2011-09-20 [2015-10-24]. Rossmann on Tuesday unveiled Klip, a new startup... 
  10. ^ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Alain Rossmann. LinkedIN. [2015-10-24]. 
  11. ^ 11.0 11.1 He belongs to the X1976 promotion, cf. the website of the Association des anciens élèves de l’École polytechnique (the AX) (the Old fellows association). His record shows that he is also an "ingénieur des ponts et chaussées" (i.e. civil works engineer, in his case coming from Polytechnique and so being a civil servant) and asked to be freed from his duties with the French State ("en disponibilité", i.e. on leave).
  12. ^ Website of the library of the École Polytechnique 互联网档案馆存档,存档日期2015-03-02., thumb index « BCX Catalogs → Polytechnicien family », search for « Alain Rossmann », you then get : « Rossmann, Alain Simon (X 1976) ».
  13. ^ Swartz, Jon; Krantz, Matt; Martin, Scott. What's next for Apple?. USA Today. 2011-10-07 [2015-10-24]. "We all live in the world that Steve invented," says Alain Rossmann, who worked with Jobs at Apple in the mid-1980s. 
  14. ^ Evangelista, Benny. Alain Rossmann's Flip: social video on smart phone. SFGate. 2011-09-26 [2015-10-24]. Rossmann was an Apple evangelist under Steve Jobs during the development of the first Macintosh computer. 
  15. ^ Guglielmo, Connie. In Photos: Apple Alumni: Where Are They Now? - Joanna Hoffmann. Forbes. 2012-10-08 [2015-10-24]. (原始内容存档于October 8, 2012). She is married to Alain Rossmann, another former member of the Mac team and longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur 
  16. ^ Terdiman, Daniel. Recollections of the Mac's creators. CNET. 2009-01-22 [2015-09-07]. (原始内容存档于2015-01-23). 
  17. ^ Radius Completes IPO. InfoWorld: 40. 1990-08-27 [2015-10-24]. 
  18. ^ C-Cube Microsystems, Inc. History. [2025-03-11]. 
  19. ^ Flynn, Laurie J. TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING: DEALS; LSI LOGIC TO BUY C-CUBE MICROSYSTEMS. The New York Times. 2001-03-27 [2015-10-24]. 
  20. ^ 1993 Discover Awards: Winner: Personal Communicator: Celeste Baranski & Alain Rossmann, EO. Discover Magazine. 1993-10-01 [2015-04-10]. 
  21. ^ CNet Investor.com. Stock Wealth of CEOs. Los Angeles Times. 2000-07-24 [2015-10-24]. Alain Rossmann Phone.com +81,547,200 630,631,477 
  22. ^ Martin, Scott. Klip reels in $8 million. USA Today. 2011-11-20 [2015-10-24]. In the dot-com boom, he served as CEO of mobile browser start-up OpenWave, formerly Phone.com, which launched one of the sizzling-hot IPOs of the era. 
  23. ^ Stone, Brad. Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood - New York Times. The New York Times. 2007-04-29 [2015-10-24]. 'This shift can look very slow in the beginning and very sudden at some moment in the future,' says Alain Rossmann, a Silicon Valley veteran and the chairman of Vudu.