American businessman
Charlie Crystle
Known for Founder of Chili!Soft, GiftWorks
Charlie Crystle is an entrepreneur 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 was incorporated into Sun Microsystems's Sun Java System Web Server .[3] [4]
Crystle 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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^ a b "An Interview with Charlie Crystle" . PoliticsPA . Archived from the original on April 2, 2004.
^ Gartner, John (August 19, 2003). "Software Exec Eyes Senate Seat" . Wired . Archived from the original on October 22, 2009.
^ "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.
^ Neri, Al (August 2003). "District historically Republican" . The Insider . Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2009 .
^ Neri, Al (August 2003). "Internet entrepreneur enters Democratic primary for U.S. Senate" . The Insider . Archived from the original on October 12, 2007.