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Richard Yoo is an American entrepreneur, the co-founder and former CEO of the web hosting company Rackspace, and the founder and former CEO of web hosting company ServerBeach. Richard Yoo was born in Houston, Texas.
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Born in Houston, Texas, Yoo graduated from Alief Hastings High School in Houston and attended Trinity University as a pre-med student in San Antonio, Texas.[1] Although he did not graduate from Trinity, he operates as an advisor to the university's computer science department.[2]
Cymitar Network Systems was Yoo's first start-up. The small Internet service provider was launched in 1996 and was run out of his garage apartment while attending college.[3][4] Yoo co-founded Rackspace in 1998[5][6][7] and initially operated as its CEO.[8]
In 2003, Yoo was recognized with San Antonio Business Journal’s Annual 40 Under 40 Award.[9] The following year, he founded ServerBeach.[10][11]
Yoo attended a TED conference in California in 2005.[12]
Yoo is an advisor for Inventables in Chicago, Illinois[13] and is a mentor for I/O Ventures in San Francisco, California.[14] Additionally, he operates as a judge in the Rice University Business Plan Competition (RBPC),[15] was a Chair for the Accessibility Internet Rally for Houston,[16] and is an advisory board member of the Children's Museum of Houston.[17]
Yoo spoke at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference.[18]
Yoo invested in Perceptual Networks located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[19]
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