Robert Young

Robert Young is an entrepreneur, market disruptor, and dealmaker. His career as a disruptor began when he played an instrumental role in launching the first nationwide consumer ISP, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp... negotiating the first M&A deal between an Internet company and a traditional media giant. Robert then proceeded to disrupt Madison Ave by launching the first company to be based solely on Internet advertising... where he also invented "Pay-Per-Click" advertising, organized the industry's first Internet ad sales force, and invented "free e-mail." Robert also ran one of the largest online social networking communities on the web. Robert is currently Executive Chairman of Publish2, and a board member of SocialVibe.  Robert is also a widely-read blogger who has written for GigaOM, ZDnet, and can now be found at Publishing 2.0 . E-mail Robert at ryoung800 (at) gmail (dot) com.