Introduction

I am Bill Gross and I started Idealab 25 years ago.

It's been a long entrepreneurial journey for me. I have been an entrepreneur all my life. I
was selling candy at the bus stop when I was in junior high school, I was making solar
devices in high school in a mail-order business, I made loudspeakers in college to pay my
way through. After college, I started software companies.

And finally, I had so much fun being an entrepreneur, and I had so many ideas ..rather than
being a serial entrepreneur I wanted to become a “parallel” entrepreneur. So I started
Idealab to do exactly that.

Under one roof we could house multiple companies and I could have ideas in many, many
different areas.