Esther Dyson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Esther Dyson
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1951(1951-07-14)
Age	73
Birthplace	Zürich
Country	Switzerland
Birth City	Canton of Zürich
Horoscope	Cancer

Esther Dyson Biography

Esther Dyson is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 14, 1951 in Zürich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951) is born in Switzerland. She is an American investor journalist writer, author, businesswoman commentator , and charitable donor. She is an eminent angel investor who invests in health care open government and digital technology, biotechnology and outer space. Dyson’s professional focus is on health. She will continue to fund startups that focus on health and technology.

In the early part of 2007 Dyson states that she is “spending more and more time on private aviation and commercial space startups” and in the field of genetics and health. Dyson is a founder member of the Space Angels Network and has invested in XCOR, Constellation Services (transformed into Nanoracks, www.nanoracks.com, Zero-G (now part of Space Adventures), Icon Aircraft, Space Adventures, and Mars One. Between 2005 and 2007, she was the host for in the Flight School conference in Aspen. She is currently on board of directors for 23andMe and was one of the ten initial volunteers for the Personal Genome Project.

She sits on the boards of Medesk, 23andMe, Eventful.com, Luxoft, Meetup Inc., Pressreader.com (formerly NewspaperDirect), PA Consulting, Personal Inc, TerraLink Technologies, Voxiva (the company behind text4baby.org in the US and Russia), WPP Group, XCOR Aerospace and Yandex (Russia – YNDX).

Dyson is a member of several non-profit and advisory groups. Between 1998 and 2000, she served as the first chairman of ICANN which is which is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In 2004 she was on the “reform” committee, dedicated to defining the role of people in ICANN’s decision-making process and management structures. She was against the expansion of ICANN’s general top-level domains (gTLDs). She has closely followed the post-Soviet transition in Eastern Europe, from 2002 until 2012, she was a part of the Bulgarian President’s IT Advisory Council, along with Vint Cerf, George Sadowsky and Veni Markovski, to name a few. She was trustee of and has helped to fund new organizations like Glasses for Humanity, Bridges.org as well as The National Endowment for Democracy, and the Eurasia Foundation. She is on The Board of Directors for The After-School Corporation, a non-profit organization that aims to expand the opportunities for education to all children. She is also a part on the board of Sunlight Foundation, StopBadware, The Long Now Foundation.

Esther Dyson Net Worth

Esther Dyson is one of the richest Journalist from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Esther Dyson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Esther Dyson’s father is English-born American-naturalized scientist Freeman Dyson, and her mother was a mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson. Both were of Swiss parents One brother of them is the digital technological historian George Dyson. After having graduated from Harvard with an economics degree and then was employed by Forbes to work as an fact-checker, and quickly became a reporter. In 1977 she was hired by New Court Securities following Federal Express and other startups. After a brief stint at Oppenheimer Holdings covering software companies before moving to Rosen Research in 1982. In 1983, after she purchased the company from her boss Ben Rosen, Dyson renamed the business EDventure Holdings and his Rosen Electronic Letter newsletter, Release 1.0. Dyson transferred EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004, but she quit CNET in January of 2007.

in 1997 “46 year old Dyson” wrote “it so happens that I have never voted.”

On October 7, 2008, Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi’s trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009.

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Facts & Trivia

Esther Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Esther Dyson celebrates birthday on July 14 of every year.

Top Facts about Esther Dyson

1. Esther Dyson was born on July 14, 1951.
2. She is a Swiss-born American investor, journalist, author, commentator and philanthropist.
3. Her father was physicist Freeman Dyson and her mother was mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson.
4. She was educated at Harvard University and wrote for The Harvard Crimson.
5. She is an angel investor focused on health care, open government, digital technology, biotechnology, and outer space.
6. In 1983, she bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen and renamed it EDventure Holdings.
7. In 1997, Dyson wrote she had never voted.
8. She is a board member and active investor in a variety of start-ups.
9. She was the founding chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
10. She has served as a trustee of, and helped fund, various organizations, such as Glasses for Humanity, Bridges.org and The Commons Project.
11. She was one of the first ten volunteers for George Church’s Personal Genome Project.
12. She has served as a judge for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s NYC BigApps competition in New York.
13. She trained to be a back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi’s trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009.
14. She opposed ICANN’s 2012 expansion of generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
15. Her email signature block reads ‘Always make new mistakes’.