Charlie Crystle

Charlie Crystle
Residence Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Known for Founder of Chili!Soft

Charlie Crystle is a Pennsylvania entrepreneur and philanthropist from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

He founded the software company Chili!Soft in 1996 and raised startup capital from venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetsen of Palo Alto, CA.[1] Chili!Soft was purchased by Cobalt Networks for when Crystle was 32 years old.[2] He used the proceeds to fund several non-profit organizations and projects.[2] The software is now incorporated into Sun Microsystems's Sun Java System Web Server.[3] He has been described as a "software wunderkind."[4]

He entered the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in an attempt to unseat Arlen Specter.[5] Interest in his candidacy the race was stoked when he told the Associated Press that he would consider spending $1 million of his own money on the race.[6]

References

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  2. 1 2 "An Interview with Charlie Crystle". PoliticsPA. Archived from the original on 2004-04-02.
  3. ↑ Gartner, John (August 19, 2003). "Software Exec Eyes Senate Seat". Wired. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Charlie Crystle and the long climb back. The life of a software wunderkind: Seeing a niche, building the product. And then comes the hard part". Intelligencer Journal. March 20, 2005.
  5. ↑ Neri, Al (August 2003). "District historically Republican". The Insider.
  6. ↑ Neri, Al (August 2003). "Internet entrepreneur enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate". The Insider. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.


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