Bob Young, founder and chief executive officer of Lulu.com, will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 17. His talk, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Koury Auditorium, is organized by the Master of Business Administration Entrepreneurship Club.
Bob Young, founder and chief executive officer of Lulu.com, will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on March 17. His talk, which will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Koury Auditorium, is organized by the Master of Business Administration Entrepreneurship Club.
Young successfully turned the software industry upside down as co-founder and former CEO of Red Hat, the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Now he is taking on publishing industry giants with Lulu.com, which he founded in 2002 to enable creators to go directly to the market.
“The theme of our event is ‘Taking on the Giants,’ and we could not think of a better representative from the entrepreneurial community to provide perspective given Mr. Young's rich background and boldness,” said Ornpaka Vudhikosit, MBA Class of 2010. “Having successfully turned the software industry upside-down with Red Hat, he is now doing it all over again with Lulu. We believe MBA students and the public in general will be very excited to hear his viewpoints and advice on how they, too, can become game changers.”
Before founding Red Hat in 1993, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. He also co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a nonprofit foundation created to bolster conversations about intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good.
Register for the free event at http://kfbsrsvp.eventbrite.com/.
Kenan-Flagler media contact: Allison Adams, (919) 962-7235, aadams@unc.edu
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu