Tony Wright
Founder & CEO, RescueTime

Tony Wright is the co-founder and CEO of RescueTime. He founded the company in September of 2007 with a vision to allow individuals and businesses to understand how they spend their time and to help them spend it more effectively. Tony recently completed a 3 month stint at YCombinator (a startup incubation program) and has led the company to 7% week over week growth with an offering for both businesses and individuals. Prior to RescueTime, Tony founded a web startup in the recruiting space, which was acquired by Jobster.com in 2006. Tony served as Director of Product Development at Jobster for 1 year. Tony holds a B.S. in Psychology from Washington College.

Sessions

10:00am Wednesday, 11/05/2008

TechHunch Thrifty: Web 2.0 Companies Started on a Hunch and a Prayer

Workshop
Location: Ralston

Guy Kawasaki (Alltop), Rashmi Sinha (SlideShare, Inc.), Jason Yan (Disqus), Tony Wright (RescueTime), Kevin Hale (Infinity Box Inc.), Garry Tan (Posterous.com), Jeff Vyduna (Poll Everywhere), Kelly Bennett (MightyQuiz), Drew Houston (Dropbox), Ryo Koyama (Yoics)

Watch the demos of ten companies that started in the worst of times with less than $50,000. This is the New, New, New Economy where $50,000, MySQL, Rails, PHP, WordPress, Twitter, and passion go a long, long way. Read more.

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