Joi Ito
Entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Joi Ito is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist who formerly directed the MIT Media Lab. He wrote Whiplash.
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About Joi Ito
Joichi "Joi" Ito was born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1966. He is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and he now serves as president of Chiba Institute of Technology. He founded PSINet Japan and Infoseek Japan, and he is chief architect and a board member of Digital Garage. He also founded the early-stage fund Neoteny and is a managing partner there. In the past he directed the MIT Media Lab and wrote a monthly column for Wired. Ito has sat on the boards of many organizations, among them Creative Commons, the Mozilla Foundation and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. His book in our catalog is Whiplash.