Alex Edelstein
Encyclopedia
Alex Edelstein is a high-tech business executive and reality television
participant.
of Servio
(formerly CloudCrowd
) a company in the crowdsourcing
space that he co-founded with Jordan Ritter in 2009. He also heads EditZen and TranslationZen Before CloudCrowd, he was a real estate developer and the head of Gemstone Development, where he built the Manhattan residential condomium project He previously held executive roles at Cloudmark and Inktomi. He product managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator
. Additionally, he was on the design team for Microsoft Exchange
and Microsoft Outlook
.
and high-tech topics, and is on the Board of Directors of Kiva.org
, a non-profit company that facilities micro-lending in developing countries.
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
participant.
Career
Alex Edelstein is the Chief Executive OfficerChief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of Servio
Servio
Servio offers editing, translation and content creation services. Servio was founded by Alex Edelstein and Jordan Ritter in 2010. It is an offshoot subsidiary of CloudCrowd. and operates in the crowdsourcing space. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of...
(formerly CloudCrowd
CloudCrowd
CloudCrowd was founded by Alex Edelstein and Jordan Ritter and operates in the crowdsourcing space. CloudCrowd has created a labor operating system; an on-demand online workforce of 25,000...
) a company in the crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
space that he co-founded with Jordan Ritter in 2009. He also heads EditZen and TranslationZen Before CloudCrowd, he was a real estate developer and the head of Gemstone Development, where he built the Manhattan residential condomium project He previously held executive roles at Cloudmark and Inktomi. He product managed the early versions of Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser that was popular in the 1990s. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared...
. Additionally, he was on the design team for Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange can refer to:* Microsoft Exchange Server, an email server software product from Microsoft* Microsoft Exchange Client, the former companion client software for Exchange Server that was embedded into some versions of Microsoft Windows...
and Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...
.
Reality Television
On April 2, 2009, he was featured on the reality TV show The Millionaire Matchmaker.Community
He provides television analysis on both real estateand high-tech topics, and is on the Board of Directors of Kiva.org
Kiva (organization)
Kiva Microfunds is an organization that allows people to lend money via the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries around the world and in the United States, which in turn lend the money to small businesses and students...
, a non-profit company that facilities micro-lending in developing countries.