| Bob Rosenschein | |
| Birth Name: | Robert Rosenschein |
| Birth Date: | 5 June 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Nationality: | Israeli |
| Known For: | Founder of Answers.com |
| Occupation: | Businessman |
Robert S. "Bob" Rosenschein is an American-Israeli internet entrepreneur. He was founder, Chairman and CEO of Answers.com, formerly GuruNet,[1] until May 2011, when it was bought by Summit Partner's AFCV Holdings for $127 million. His latest startup was Curiyo.[2]
Rosenschein was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents Martin Rosenschein [3] and Yolanda Bleier.[4] He graduated with a BSc in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. In his early career Rosenschein worked for Data General, American Management Systems, the World Bank, and Ashton-Tate. He moved to Israel in 1983, where he worked as a software consultant.[5]
In 1988 Rosenschein and his brother, Prof. Jeffrey Rosenschein, founded Kivun, later Accent Software. Its initial product was Dagesh, the first Hebrew/English word processor for Windows. From 1991 to 1992, the company consulted to Microsoft, helping design and develop Hebrew and Arabic versions of Windows 3.1. The company went on to develop multi-lingual software tools under the Accent brand.[6] For the Hebrew Windows and Dagesh projects, Rosenschein was awarded the Prime Minister of Israel's Award for Software Achievement in 1997.
In 1999, Rosenschein founded GuruNet with Morton Meyerson and Mark Tebbe, which created a 1-click popup Internet-based information utility.[7] The product later became Answers.com, incorporating both editorial reference and user-generated Q&A information. The company was listed on NASDAQ as Answers Corporation from October 13, 2004 until April 14, 2011, when it was purchased and taken private by AFCV Holdings.
In 2009, Rosenschein was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award Finalist in the Metropolitan New York region.
Rosenschein founded and ran Curiyo from 2013-2016.[8] [9]