Years active 1992 - Present Name David Paolo | Website gogocast.com | |
Born March 3, 1968 (age 56) f ( 1968-03-03 ) Providence Residence Hope Village Historic District | ||
David R. Paolo (born March 3, 1968) is a Rhode Island-based entrepreneur and business man. He is most known for founding and leading Log On America, one of the first Internet companies, through the 90's.
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Paolo is a majority shareholder of GoGo Media Networks, an on-demand, out-of-home digital media company, and serves as its President and CEO.
Early life and education
Paolo was born in Providence and raised in Johnston, Rhode Island. He graduated from Lasalle Academy in 1986 and attended Roger Williams University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in business.
Career
After completing his education at LaSalle, Paolo worked at family run companies until 1992, when he founded Log On America. Paolo made a deal with WJAR Channel 10 in Providence and became the first company in the world to stream a television station on the Internet. It was an all text channel. Paolo took feeds from WJAR Channel 10 and put them on the Internet. Paolo also brokered a deal with Gannett Publishing to bring the USA Today online which was delivered nationally over an X.25 network. In 1995, Paolo started delivering high speed Internet access to corporations and institutes.
In 1994, Paolo was appointed as Ambassador for the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce. A year later, he was invited to a NYNEX advisory board meeting, where he told people about his work. He was later asked to join the advisory as the chairman and served there till 1998.
Towards the end of 1996, Log On America was acquired by Global Telemedia, while Paolo still served as the CEO. In 1998, he bought back the company feeling the company was not able to grow as a subsidiary. The same year, he raised $1.5 million in pre-IPO private equity and then filed a registration statement in January 1998 and the company went public in April 1999.
Its offering during the dot com boom was hailed as the fifth best performing IPO in the history of the stock market knocking Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com from that position. The company raised $25 million through the IPO.
Paolo was selected as a finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2000.
Paolo joined SkyPath Networks in 2001 as non-executive chairman and served there till 2006. He later became the Chairman and CEO at iPower Applications and held the position till 2008, when he was introduced to the founding team of GoGo Cast and decided to join the company. In 2011, Paolo became the managing director of Brickhouse Holdings, LLC, a technology fund, while remaining in his role as the CEO of GoGo Cast. As of 2015, he serves as the President and CEO of GoGo Media Networks.