Career
Minor ran CNET for 8 years during which time it became one of the Internet's first companies to achieve profitability. From 1999 to 2001, CNET was a member of the NASDAQ-100 index. CNET was purchased by CBS for $1.7 billion in 2008 and is now CBS Interactive. Minor also developed 2 other spin-off companies which independent of CNET became public entities: Vignette Software and Snap/NBCi. Minor is currently investing in new companies in a broad range of fields via Minor Ventures. One such example is the service Google Voice, which was developed by Minor Ventures and then sold to Google.
Minor co-founded and was the largest financial investor and second largest shareholder in salesforce.com, one of the most successful technology companies of the decade and a pioneer in "cloud computing". Starting in 2000, Salesforce.com had achieved a market capitalization in excess of $15 billion.
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