ICQ founder has a new message
‘High-tech start-ups are forever knocking on the doors of potential customers. For salespeople at Dotomi Inc., an online advertising company in downtown Boston, one of the surest — if improbable — door-openers is their chief technology officer.
”When you walk into an advertising agency with Yair, it’s like you’re walking in with a rock star,” said John Federman, president and chief executive. ”They all want to meet him.”
Yair (pronounced yah-yere) is Yair Goldfinger, a rail-thin 33-year-old Israeli with a shy manner and hair that falls to his shoulders. Goldfinger is known in high-tech circles as a founding father of instant messaging, the Internet chat technology that has become ubiquitous in offices and homes. If you spend your days bantering with co-workers via IM, you can thank Goldfinger. And if your kids are up half the night IM-ing their friends, he’s the guy to blame.’
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