David Bohnett
David C. Bohnett | |
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Born | April 2, 1956 | (age 68)
Alma mater | University of Southern California Ross School of Business (MBA) |
Occupation(s) | Philanthropist Technology entrepreneur Technology investor |
Known for | David Bohnett Foundation GeoCities Baroda Ventures |
David C. Bohnett (born April 2, 1956) is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation, a non-profit, grant-making organization devoted to improving society through social activism. Bohnett founded the pioneering social networking site GeoCities in 1994; the highly successful site went public via an IPO in 1998, and was acquired by Yahoo! in 1999. Since then he has invested in technology start-ups via Baroda Ventures, a Los Angeles–based venture capital firm he started in 1998.
Early life, education, and early career
Bohnett was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1956, and grew up in Hinsdale, an affluent Chicago suburb, with Republican parents.[1] His father was a business executive and his mother was a preschool teacher.[2][1] His sister Wendy Bohnett Campbell is a past president of the board of the Dayton Philharmonic,[3] and his brother William is a retired corporate attorney and was on the national board of the Smithsonian Institution from 2009 to 2018.[4][5][6][7] Bohnett was interested in business at an early age, selling Amway products and delivering newspapers. In high school he became fascinated by computers, and chose to attend college at the University of Southern California – where he received a BS in business administration – because it was one of the few universities at the time with a computer science program.[1] He put himself through college by waiting tables, guiding tours at Universal Studios, and other service jobs.[8][9]
Internet career
GeoCities
In 1994 Bohnett's business and software expertise, and his interest in giving people a voice and a chance to meet people of similar interests, led him to develop GeoCities.com, with John Rezner as co-founder and chief technical officer.[10][11][12] GeoCities was one of the first web hosting companies and one of the first social networking sites on the internet, an early forerunner of MySpace and Facebook.[10][13][14][15] It allowed users to engage in a variety of innovative activities – create their own free webpages, organized into communities of interest; connect with others online; express their passions, creativity, and individuality; and engage in e-commerce.[16][10][11][17][18] The site grew very rapidly, receiving millions of users who set up webpages;[10][19] at its peak it ultimately reached 38 million pages, created by individual users.[19] GeoCities was the first large internet venture built on user-generated content,[20] and in 2008 TechRadar cited it as #2 in its list of "20 websites that changed the world".[21] By 1997 it was the fifth most popular site on the internet, with over one million users.[11][17] The company went public in 1998, nearly doubling its initial share price in its first day of trading;[11][17] Bohnett used the increased funding to add various features including a search engine, numerous tools and templates which made page creation easy and which completely bypassed any need for HTML coding, and social tools which made it easy to interact.[19] GeoCities also hosted business sites, sites for world news, and shopping sites.[19] By December 1998 it was the third most visited internet site, and had 41 theme-based interest categories called "neighborhoods", whose topics ranged to areas as varied as fan fiction, fine dining, arts and literature, campus life, computers and technology, investing and finance, individual sports and recreational activities, education and philosophy, politics, family, kids' interests, chat and romance, the environment, travel, home life, cooking, health, fan pages, entertainment genres, women, and multiple international-interest pages.[22][19] Yahoo! Inc. purchased GeoCities during the dotcom boom in 1999 for $3.57 billion, and Bohnett netted about $300 million.[23]
Baroda Ventures
By 1998 Bohnett's success with GeoCities allowed him to begin investing in other technology companies, and he founded Baroda Ventures, a Los Angeles–based venture capital firm which makes early-stage investments in tech-related ventures.[18] Baroda's investments focus mainly on consumer internet, e-commerce, mobile, SaaS, and digital media industries, with a particular interest in companies based in Los Angeles.[24] Some of Baroda's investments have included SteelHouse, Retention Science, ID90T, Surf Air, DogVacay, and Gamesville.[25][18]
Philanthropic activities
David Bohnett Foundation
Immediately after selling his popular internet social-network company GeoCities to Yahoo! in 1999, Bohnett turned his attention to activism. He created the David Bohnett Foundation, "a nonprofit grant-making organization focused on providing resources for organizations pursuing societal change and social justice through activism", with an initial endowment of $32 million.[26] According to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, he "invests where he can actually improve lives, empower individuals and build viable communities in meaningful ways".[27] To serve as executive director and strategist for his foundation he hired Michael Fleming, who had been a media leader for the American Civil Liberties Union.[28][1][29] The David Bohnett Foundation is devoted to improving society through community-building and social activism, and it provides funding, state-of-the-art technology, and technical support to relevant innovative organizations and institutions.[30][31] As of 2024, the foundation had donated over $130 million.[31][32] Its current primary funding areas are:
- The Fund for Los Angeles, which supports a broad spectrum of arts, educational, and civic programs in Los Angeles[33]
- AIDS services and research
- Voting rights and voter registration
- Gun violence prevention
- Animal research and animal rights
Additional philanthropy and directorships
Bohnett has been a trustee of amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) since 2006,[34][35] and was honored with an amfAR Award of Courage in 2006.[36] He donated $1 million to amfAR's 2014/2015 Countdown for a Cure drive for an end to AIDS by 2020.[37] In addition to his personal and foundation philanthropy, Bohnett was the chairman of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association from 2008 to 2013,[38][39] and he was instrumental in recruiting Gustavo Dudamel to become the orchestra's music director.[40][41][42] He was vice chairman of the LA Phil from 2013 to late 2015, and is currently on the orchestra's board of directors.[16][43][44][45] His enthusiasm for involvement with the LA Phil was sparked by the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003, and he began major donations, totaling $3.5 million by July 2014, which helped the orchestra reach underserved communities and broaden and diversify its programming and activities.[42] His chairmanship of the LA Phil brought music education, musical resources, and free instruments to LA's least-privileged areas.[42] He has been a champion of the LA Phil's Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) since its inception.[46][47] In December 2014, Bohnett donated $20 million to the LA Philharmonic.[48][49] $10 million of that endowed the David C. Bohnett Presidential Chair, ensuring that the orchestra will always have the funds to recruit and pay a first-rate president and chief executive officer. The other $10 million created the David C. Bohnett Presidential Fund for Discovery and Innovation, to make the LA Phil a "model" 21st-century orchestra through innovative programming; new audience development, including via digital routes; and social responsibility.[50][51] In 2015, the Bohnett bequest co-funded a first-of-its-kind virtual reality (VR) mobile four-minute concert performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, housed in a van and featuring an immersive experience of Dudamel conducting the symphony, which toured for two months to communities and young people who do not usually come to the Walt Disney Concert Hall;[52][53][54][55][56] the VAN Beethoven experience was also made available as a free app called Orchestra VR in the Oculus Rift and Samsung VR app stores.[57] He is a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),[58][59] and made a major gift to LACMA to name its Ahmanson Building atrium the David Bohnett Foundation Atrium.[60] From 2001 through 2014, the Bohnett Foundation donated $8.8 million to LACMA.[42] He is the former board chairman (2015–2017),[16][10][45][61] and the current chairman of the executive committee,[62][63][64] of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. In 2012 he was appointed by President Barack Obama as a trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,[25][42][65] and in 2015 the David Bohnett Foundation donated $5 million to the Kennedy Center for its Expansion Project.[66] He is also a founding supporter of the Southampton Arts Center.[67][68] He is on the board of trustees of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.[69] He co-funded and co-sponsored the drive to continue the manufacture of peel-apart instant film. The initiative, headed by photographer Florian Kaps and the group New55, is relaunching 4×5-inch color peel-apart film and will manufacture other types of packfilm.[70] Bohnett was on the board of trustees of the Brookings Institution.[71] He was on the board of directors of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council,[72] and is currently on the board of trustees of the University of Southern California.[73][74] His directorship involvements also include having been a board member of the California Community Foundation.[75] In 2016 Bohnett donated $15 million to the USC Village at the University of Southern California. The endowment will fund the David C. Bohnett Residential College, which will focus on social justice and community service. The Bohnett College will be a student community that integrates living and learning for up to 320 students, plus faculty-in-residence and support staff. The $15 million donation also established a leadership fund at the USC's Price School of Public Policy for a two-year fellowship in public policy at the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. It will also endow a chair in social entrepreneurship at the USC Marshall School of Business.[76][77][78] Bohnett is also a co-founder of the Lake Agawam Conservation Association in Southampton, New York, dedicated to rehabilitation of Lake Agawam and promoting environmentally sensitive riparian stewardship.[79][80]
Political involvement
Bohnett has also advocated for the FCC's 2016 proposal to implement open technologies for the current set-top box technologies, which would break the corporate monopoly on cable and satellite companies' high-priced and controlled content of television programming and other video content.[81]
Honors
Bohnett's technology business success and his philanthropic efforts have garnered him numerous honors and accolades. These include, among many others:[82]
- Number 16 on Time's Top 50 Cyber Elite (1998)[8][83]
- Upside magazine's Elite 100 (1998)[84]
- Newsweek's "100 People to Watch in the Next Millennium"[65]
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Southern California (1999)[65][85][86]
- Los Angeles Business Journal's Technology Leader of the Year (2000)[87]
- ACLU Citizen Advocate Award (2002)[88][89]
- amfAR Award of Courage (2006)[34][36][90]
- Los Angeles City of Angels Award (2008)[91]
- GLSEN's Lifetime Achievement Award (2009)[92][93]
- Honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Whittier College (2012)[94][95]
- American Jewish Committee Los Angeles' Ira E. Yellin Community Leadership Award (2014)[96][43][97]
- Brady Bear Award from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence (2016)[98][99]
- Los Angeles Business Journal's LA 500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles (2017)[100][101]
- Honorary doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Southern California (2022)[102]
Earlier in his career, he was invited to the White House by President Bill Clinton as part of his administration's efforts to encourage the development of electronic commerce over the Internet.[65] He was named a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles for the 1999 to 2000 academic year.[65]
Personal life
Bohnett lives in Los Angeles, and maintains residences in Manhattan and Southampton, New York, and Gstaad, Switzerland.[103][80][104] In the Hamptons he is on the advisory council of the non-profit i-Hamptons, a networking organization and hub for entrepreneurs,[105][106][107] and is on the advisory board of its project The Spur, a private co-working space and innovation lab with two locations in the Hamptons.[108][109] An accomplished bridge player, Bohnett achieved Life Master status in 2008 at a national bridge tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada.[110] He is an active outdoor enthusiast, having competed in numerous 5K and 10K races, and the 2008 Breath of Life Ventura Triathlon.[111][112]
Art collection and donations
Bohnett is an avid art collector, specializing in modern and contemporary art.[41] His large collection includes works by David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Keith Haring, Donald Judd, Ed Ruscha, Mark DiSuvero, George Rickey, Sam Francis, Agnes Martin, Catherine Opie, Tatsuo Miyajima, Robbie Conal, Lawrence Weiner, and John Chamberlain.[2][113][114][115] In 2002, he donated Jonathan Borofsky's 1991 sculpture Walking Man to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.[116] In 2007, he donated two original Winsor McKay production animation drawings of Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) to the Fales Library at New York University,[117][118] and a Japanese calligraphy box and letter box to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).[119] In 2008 he was one of a consortium of six donors who funded LACMA's acquisition of 46 rare and historic masterworks of the Pacific Islands,[120][121][122] and together with Tom Gregory funded LACMA's acquisition of James Turrell's 1966 free-standing work Afrum (White).[123]
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External links
- Official Bio
- David Bohnett Foundation
- Baroda Ventures
- David Bohnett[dead link ] – Profile at Bloomberg Businessweek
- David Bohnett at IMDb
- One-hour audio interview with Bohnett on his life and career (2015)
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