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Over the past 25 years, Sky Dayton has founded and built companies that have helped to propel the Internet into our everyday lives.

Sky founded EarthLink in 1994 at the age of 23 after becoming frustrated with how hard it was to connect to the Internet. EarthLink grew to serve millions of consumers and helped usher in the Internet revolution.

Sky has founded, co-founded, or helped build companies with an aggregate market value of over $20 billion. Since 1999, these include JAMDAT Mobile (which went public and was purchased by Electronic Arts in 2005), LowerMyBills (purchased by Experian in 2005), Neopets (purchased by Viacom in 2005), Business.com (purchased by RH Donnelly in 2007), Helio (purchased by Virgin Mobile USA in 2008), Boingo Wireless, which Sky founded in 2001 and went public in 2011, Ring (purchased by Amazon in 2018), Swarm, a start-up launching a global network of low-cost communications satellites (purchased by SpaceX in 2021), and Joby Aviation, which is building a revolutionary electric vertical take-off and land (eVTOL) electric aircraft, which also went public in 2021.

Today, Sky is an active investor and board member at several companies. These include Age of Learning, the leading online education provider for children; Diffbot, an AI start-up; Artsy, the biggest online marketplace for fine art; CloudKitchens/City Storage Systems, a real estate company Sky co-founded; and Loft Dynamics, a virtual reality start-up changing the way aircraft pilots are trained. He is also a venture partner at Craft Ventures.

Prior to EarthLink, Sky co-founded a computer graphics boutique catering to the entertainment industry, and a popular coffeehouse in West Hollywood, Calif. He graduated from the Delphian School in Oregon in 1988 and chose to forgo college to pursue his interests in business and technology.

Sky was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Southern California, served on the board of the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, and currently serves on the Parent’s Advisory Board at Stanford University.

An avid surfer, poker player and jet-rated pilot, Sky resides in the Northwest United States with his wife, bestselling novelist Arwen Elys Dayton, and their three children.