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'''Raymond King''' has founded four companies, and enjoys the technical and business challenges of birthing totally new ideas. He started his first company, The Computer Workshop, with a friend while still in high school. It was featured on EyeWitness news and the New York Times.  As a sophomore at [http://www.mit.edi M.I.T.], Ray created a project management software package for his father's architectural firm. This project became Ray's second company, [http://www.sema4.com/ Semaphore, Inc.] By 1990, it was rated No. 1 in its space by ARCHITECTURE Magazine. Ten years later, Semaphore had more than 2,500 clients and 100 employees. After Semaphore was acquired by [http://www.deltek.com Deltek Systems, Inc.] in 2000, Ray moved from New York City to Portland, Oregon, to co-found [[SnapNames|SnapNames.com]]. The company invented several new ways for people to acquire domain names, and grew to more than  $49 million in annual revenue by the time it was acquired by Oversee.net in 2007.  Ray's current venture, AboutUs.org, is the world's largest editable index of the Web. The site offers both paid and free services for small business owners looking to drive more traffic to their websites. [[AboutUs|AboutUs.org]] serves three million unique visitors per month, and employs 13 people at its Portland office.
 
'''Raymond King''' has founded four companies, and enjoys the technical and business challenges of birthing totally new ideas. He started his first company, The Computer Workshop, with a friend while still in high school. It was featured on EyeWitness news and the New York Times.  As a sophomore at [http://www.mit.edi M.I.T.], Ray created a project management software package for his father's architectural firm. This project became Ray's second company, [http://www.sema4.com/ Semaphore, Inc.] By 1990, it was rated No. 1 in its space by ARCHITECTURE Magazine. Ten years later, Semaphore had more than 2,500 clients and 100 employees. After Semaphore was acquired by [http://www.deltek.com Deltek Systems, Inc.] in 2000, Ray moved from New York City to Portland, Oregon, to co-found [[SnapNames|SnapNames.com]]. The company invented several new ways for people to acquire domain names, and grew to more than  $49 million in annual revenue by the time it was acquired by Oversee.net in 2007.  Ray's current venture, AboutUs.org, is the world's largest editable index of the Web. The site offers both paid and free services for small business owners looking to drive more traffic to their websites. [[AboutUs|AboutUs.org]] serves three million unique visitors per month, and employs 13 people at its Portland office.
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== Career History ==
 
== Career History ==
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* RecentChanges.Info - Blog on the subject of wikis ([http://www.RecentChanges.info Website])
 
* RecentChanges.Info - Blog on the subject of wikis ([http://www.RecentChanges.info Website])
 
* [[WikiIndex|WikiIndex]] ([http://www.WikiIndex.com Website])
 
* [[WikiIndex|WikiIndex]] ([http://www.WikiIndex.com Website])
* [[ICANNWiki|ICANNWiki]] ([http://www.icannwiki.org Website])
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* [[ICANNWiki|ICANNWiki]] ([http://www.icannwiki.org Website]) / [[Raymond King|his user page]]
 
* [http://www.aboutus.org AboutUs, Inc. Website]
 
* [http://www.aboutus.org AboutUs, Inc. Website]
  
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