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词条 Alex Mashinsky
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. References

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| birth_place = Ukraine
| residence = New York City, New York, US
| occupation = Entrepreneur, CEO
| employer = Celsius
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Alex Mashinsky is an entrepreneur who has founded several notable technology firms in the United States. He founded Arbinet in 1996 as a commodity exchange for telecommunication companies to trade unused long-distance minutes. Mashinsky's other company, VoiceSmart, was one of the first firms to offer telecommunications switches to handle ordinary voice as well as Voice over IP call routing.

Mashinsky later founded GroundLink in 2004 as a service to book on-demand limousine and car services from a computer or smartphone. He was also the founder of Q-Wireless, which later became part of Transit Wireless. From 2014 to 2015, Mashinsky served as CEO of Novatel. He currently serves as CEO of the Celsius Network which is an Ethereum-based lending platform operated by use of blockchain technologies.

Early life

Mashinsky was born in Ukraine and grew up in Israel.[1][2] From an early age, he was a tinkerer, like his father, and would tap into and use public phone lines in Israel.[2] Mashinsky attended a few different universities where he majored in electrical engineering but did not graduate. He later served in the Israeli Army.[2] At the end of the 1980s, he left Israel and moved to the United States.[3][1]

Career

After relocating to New York City, Mashinsky ran a business trading contracts for delivery of chemicals such as urea, gold, and sodium cyanide. However, after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the business slowed as exports of sodium cyanide from China fizzled. Mashinsky then worked at A+ Systems, a computer-based voicemail software company for phone carriers.[2]

He was also an early developer of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP).[4][5] In the early 1990s, he founded VoiceSmart, one of the first companies to offer computer-based VOIP phone service.[3] By 1993, Mashinsky had realized the potential for a commodity market for international telephone capacity.[6] So, in 1996, Mashinsky founded Arbinet, a marketplace for VOIP telephone service.[3][1] The platform was one of the first to allow telecommunication companies to trade minutes.[7] In November 1997, Arbinet began offering a similar service for data connectivity, allowing the more than 400 T1 lines connected to its New York hub to exchange their unused bandwidth.[8]

In 2005, he sold his stake in Arbinet and used part of the profits from the sale to start GroundLink.[1] The company allowed people to book limousine and car service from a smartphone or computer.[9] Mashinsky was inspired to start the company after a car he had reserved failed to pick up him and a business associate he was trying to impress from the airport.[1] In 2010, Mashinsky organized a joint venture between GroundLink and several limousine and car service companies. These companies with LimoRes Car & Limo Service, a company Mashinsky also founded, installed free Wi-Fi service funded solely by sales of advertising.[10] He also partnered with Gogo Inflight Internet to offer the free service on US flights.[11]

Mashinsky's company Q-Wireless is one of the four companies that made up Transit Wireless, a joint venture to install wireless cellphone and free Wi-Fi internet service in the New York City Subway system.[12] It took Mashinsky three years to convince Metropolitan Transportation Authority to initiate a survey to determine if there was a demand for cell phone service inside the subway system and two more years for the authority to request a proposal.[5] By 2010,[12] his company had received a contract to install the service at 277 below-ground subway stations in New York City.[5]

In April 2014, Mashinsky was named to the board of directors of Novatel which is a provider of Wi-Fi hotspot products.[13] He was appointed CEO in June of that year.[14][15] In October 2015, Mashinsky left his position at Novatel after a year and a half as CEO of the company.[16]

Mashinsky, along with S. Daniel Leon and David Brill founded Celsius, a borrowing and lending platform based on the blockchain technology Ethereum.[17][18] In October 2017, they announced that they would have an initial coin offering in January 2018. Mashinsky serves as CEO of Celsius.[18]

References

1. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite news|url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/gallery/20100501/FEATURES/501009995/3|title=GroundLink - Top Entrepreneurs 2010|last=Garmhausen|first=Steve|date=2010|work=Crain's New York Business|access-date=2018-03-30}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{Cite news|url=http://thestandard.com:80/article/display/0,1151,3219,00.html|title=Bandwidth Merchant?|last=Guth|first=Rob|date=January 25, 1999|work=The Industry Standard|access-date=March 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000818233151/http://thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,3219,00.html|archive-date=2000-08-18|dead-url=yes|df=}}
3. ^1 2 {{Cite journal|last=Light|first=Jay O.|last2=Green|first2=Daniel J.|date=2000-07-21|title=Arbinet Communications, Inc. (A)|url=https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=27338|journal=Harvard Business School|language=en-us|edition=January 2001|issue=Case 201-006|pages=4–5}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/a-verbal-cryptobrawl-breaks-out-at-milken-over-bitcoin-s-future|title=A Verbal Cryptobrawl Breaks Out at Milken Over Bitcoin's Future|last=Leising|first=Matthew|date=2018-05-02|work=Bloomberg|access-date=2018-05-04|language=en}}
5. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2012/03/transit_wireless_founder_advis.html|title=Transit Wireless founder advises entrepreneurs at NJ Tech Meetup to take personality test|last=Surden|first=Esther|date=March 26, 2012|work=The Jersey Journal|access-date=April 9, 2018|language=en-US}}
6. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.economist.com/node/599143|title=Down with distance|date=September 11, 1997|website=The Economist|language=en|access-date=2018-04-09}}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/11/business/jumping-off-the-bandwidth-wagon.html|title=Jumping Off the Bandwidth Wagon|last=Schiesel|first=Seth|date=1999-07-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
8. ^{{Cite news|url=http://business2.com:80/articles/mag/0,1640,12954,00.html|title=Fast Times on the Minute Exchange|last=McDonald|first=Glenn|date=April 1999|work=Business 2.0|access-date=April 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030611100038/http://business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,12954,00.html|archive-date=2003-06-11|dead-url=yes|df=}}
9. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100926/SMALLBIZ/309269970|title=Ground-transport firm flying high|last=Zimmerman|first=Eilene|date=September 26, 2010|work=Crain's New York Business|access-date=2018-04-09}}
10. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704499604575407773797744474|title=Coming Soon to City, Wi-Fi on the Go|last=Grossman|first=Andrew|date=2010-08-04|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/10/free-wifi-gogo-groundlink/|title=Gogo and Groundlink's Partnership, Free Inflight Internet Deal – TechCrunch|last=Kolodny|first=Lora|date=August 10, 2010|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-09}}
12. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/subway-tunnels-not-stations-set-wi-fi-cell-signals-article-1.468634|title=Subway tunnels set to get Wi-Fi, cell signals|last=Donohue|first=Pete|date=July 30, 2010|work=NY Daily News|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en}}
13. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sdut-Novatel-Wireless-shareholders-settlement-proxy-2014apr29-story.html|title=Novatel Wireless settles shareholder spat|last=Freeman|first=Mike|date=April 29, 2014|work=The San Diego Union-Tribune|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-US}}
14. ^{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdbj.com/news/2014/dec/04/return-roots/|title=Return to Roots|last=Graves|first=Brad|date=December 4, 2014|work=San Diego Business Journal|access-date=2018-04-09}}
15. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sdut-Novatel-Wireless-activist-shareholders-Mashinsky-2014jun13-story.html|title=Shareholders push out Novatel CEO|last=Freeman|first=Mike|date=June 13, 2014|work=The San Diego Union-Tribune|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-US}}
16. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/sdut-novatel-wireless-mifi-mashinsky-swenson-falcone-2015oct29-story.html|title=Novatel Wireless fires CEO, names replacement|last=Freeman|first=Mike|date=October 29, 2015|work=The San Diego Union-Tribune|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-US}}
17. ^{{Cite news|url=https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/10/celsius-is-using-blockchain-technology-to-disrupt-the-1-1-trillion-consumer-credit-industry/|title=Celsius aims to disrupt the consumer credit industry using blockchain|last=Rogers|first=Stewart|date=2017-10-10|work=VentureBeat|access-date=2018-04-09|language=en-US}}
18. ^1 {{Cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/how-cryptocurrency-loans-are-reinventing-credit-2604266|title=How Cryptocurrency Loans Are Reinventing Credit|last=Cuen|first=Leigh|date=2017-10-20|work=International Business Times|access-date=2018-04-09}}
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