Jack Herrick
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Jack Herrick | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Known for | Owning wikiHow |
Website | wikiHow.com |
Jack Herrick is an American entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast. His entrepreneurial projects include wikiHow, eHow, Luminescent Technologies, and BigTray.
Early life and education[]
Herrick attended Crystal Springs Uplands School and is a 1991 graduate of Stanford University, where he studied history. He was an associate at McKinsey and Company and later studied at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.[1][better source needed]
Career[]
In January 2005, Herrick started wikiHow with the goal of creating "the how-to guide for everything"[2][3] because "providing people with a practical education is one of the most empowering things you can offer a person."[4] As of December 2009, wikiHow was read by 20 million visitors per month.[5] At wikiHow, Herrick was noted for introducing opt-out advertising,[6][7] co-developing the Universal Edit Button,[8] building a collaborative online environment,[9] and combining business with social good.[10] Herrick founded and funded wikiHow himself from the beginning, making it one of the most popular sites on the Internet.[11]
Prior to starting wikiHow, Herrick ran eHow, a popular how-to website now owned by Demand Media. He bought eHow together with Josh Hannah in 2004. Between 2004 and 2006, it became the largest pure-play how-to site on the web, growing 30 times in traffic and revenue. Herrick sold eHow in 2006 to Demand Media[11] after concluding the wiki method of content creation would ultimately produce higher quality work. He described the difference between eHow and wikiHow as "eating a McDonald's burger vs. a wonderful, home cooked meal."[12]
Herrick is also on the Board of Directors for StatusNet, an open source microblogging company, and the Board of Advisors for Mixer Labs, a startup acquired by Twitter. Prior to focusing on building how-to manuals, Herrick was a co-founder of Luminescent Technologies, a computational semiconductor lithography company, and BigTray, an online marketplace for restaurant supplies. In 2002, Herrick co-founded Luminescent together with Dan Abrams, El Yablonoitch and Stan Osher. The company has received more than $25 Million in venture capital.[11]
References[]
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackherrick/
- ^ Levine, Robert (4 September 2006). "New York Times: New Web Sites Seeking Profit in Wiki Model". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239980
- ^ "WikiNews: Jack Herrick, wikiHow founder interviewed". Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ "TechCrunch: WikiHow Gets Pretty, And Hits 20 Million Monthly Visitors". Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ Taylor, Marisa (30 January 2009). "Wall Street Journal: Turning the Ads Off". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ "WebProNews: Can Your Business Benefit By Letting Users Hide Ads?". Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ "WebMonkey: Wikis Rally Around Universal Edit Button". Archived from the original on 21 February 2009. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ "San Jose Mercury News: WikiHow tries to help". Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ "SocialBrite: Incentives for Doing Good". Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Jack Herrick - Founder and CEO @ wikiHow - Crunchbase Person Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
- ^ "ReadWriteWeb: wikiHow vs. eHow: Is the Wiki Way Better Than Content Farms". Archived from the original on 13 February 2010. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- Living people
- People from Palo Alto, California
- American Internet celebrities
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- McKinsey & Company people
- 21st-century American businesspeople
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