Jesse Lipson

American entrepreneur

Jesse Lipson (born 1977) is an American entrepreneur. He founded the enterprise file sharing service ShareFile, which he sold to Citrix Systems in 2011.2

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Born 1977.1

About

He was the corporate vice president and general manager of Citrix Cloud Services until 2017. He is now working on a new project, Levitate, through his holding company RealMagic.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedDuke University3

Lipson was born in Iowa City, Iowa in 1977. He grew up in Maryland and began a business selling card tricks to magic stores when he was 14.

He attended Duke University where he majored in philosophy. During college, he started several more ventures, including EasyCentral, a password and form manager. Following his graduation from Duke in 2000, Lipson worked for an internet start-up called FullSeven that developed branding for company e-mails during the first dot com boom. He acquired web design skills in the position, which he then parlayed into his own web development business called novelProjects. The company eventually split into three businesses.

In 2001, Lipson inherited his father's pharmaceutical market research company, Rapidata.net. Within two years he helped grow the company's revenue by 500%. The company was sold to Greenfield Online in 2005 and Lipson used the profits to help fund ShareFile.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.6

Personal life

  • Born1977, Iowa City7
  • CitizenshipUnited States8

Lipson lives in Raleigh, NC and is married to entrepreneur Brooks Bell.

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