David Tabizel
Encyclopedia
David Tabizel is an internet
and media entrepreneur
, who was the co-founder of a number of successful technology startups such as 365 Corporation (Football 365, Rugby 365 etc), Demon Internet
, Autonomy
, Rage Software, Durlacher (now Panmure Gordon
) and others.
He was also involved in the forming and founding of Metrodome Film in the UK and in Ginger Media's purchase of Virgin Radio
in the late 1990s. He also purchased Laughing Stock, Europe's leading comedy record label in the mid-1990s, a company whose artists included Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Rowan Atkinson and Arnold Brown.
Tabizel is credited with writing one of the first books on the Internet in 1991 and also wrote an influential work anticipating the Internet boom of the 1990s in "The Internet an Investment Perspective" (Financial Publications Ltd 1994). Tabizel wrote an exhaustive study of the video games industry in 1993. Three of the companies co-formed by Tabizel, Durlacher, 365 Corporation and Autonomy each achieved stock market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion. Tabizel led the research and corporate finance efforts at Durlacher, creating a technology based research driven investment bank with a peak stock market value of approximately $4 billion during the peak of the dotcom boom in 2000.
He is the founder of VideoJug
, the instructional video educational website, which had produced approximately 45,000 original how-to films by June 2008.
Although low-profile, he did give a rare in depth interview in 1995 to the Independent Newspaper and has also given occasional interviews to the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Express, Sunday Times and Newsweek. He is also known to invest and participate in number of media enterprises, particularly those involving Internet and/or comedy.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
and media entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, who was the co-founder of a number of successful technology startups such as 365 Corporation (Football 365, Rugby 365 etc), Demon Internet
Demon Internet
Demon Internet is a British Internet Service Provider. It was one of the UK's earliest ISPs, especially targeting the "dialup" audience. It started on 1 June 1992 from an idea posted on CIX by Cliff Stanford of Demon Systems Ltd. The branch in the Netherlands started in 1996, and was sold to KPN...
, Autonomy
Autonomy
Autonomy is a concept found in moral, political and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts, it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision...
, Rage Software, Durlacher (now Panmure Gordon
Panmure Gordon
Panmure Gordon & Co. is a British corporate and institutional stockbroker and investment bank. The firm operates in three businesses: investment banking, research and institutional sales and trading...
) and others.
He was also involved in the forming and founding of Metrodome Film in the UK and in Ginger Media's purchase of Virgin Radio
Virgin Radio
Absolute Radio is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations. The station rebranded to its current name at 7.45am on 29 September 2008.The station is based in London and plays popular rock music...
in the late 1990s. He also purchased Laughing Stock, Europe's leading comedy record label in the mid-1990s, a company whose artists included Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, Rowan Atkinson and Arnold Brown.
Tabizel is credited with writing one of the first books on the Internet in 1991 and also wrote an influential work anticipating the Internet boom of the 1990s in "The Internet an Investment Perspective" (Financial Publications Ltd 1994). Tabizel wrote an exhaustive study of the video games industry in 1993. Three of the companies co-formed by Tabizel, Durlacher, 365 Corporation and Autonomy each achieved stock market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion. Tabizel led the research and corporate finance efforts at Durlacher, creating a technology based research driven investment bank with a peak stock market value of approximately $4 billion during the peak of the dotcom boom in 2000.
He is the founder of VideoJug
VideoJug
Videojug is an instructional video website, It launched as a beta online in 2006. The website provides both professionally made videos produced internally, as well as some editorially selected quality videos produced by amateurs....
, the instructional video educational website, which had produced approximately 45,000 original how-to films by June 2008.
Although low-profile, he did give a rare in depth interview in 1995 to the Independent Newspaper and has also given occasional interviews to the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Express, Sunday Times and Newsweek. He is also known to invest and participate in number of media enterprises, particularly those involving Internet and/or comedy.