Dirk Ahlborn

Dirk Ahlborn
FRS
OccupationsEntrepreneur, investor
Notable workBuilding Hyperloop, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)
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Dirk Ahlborn[1][2] is an entrepreneur, investor, and an American businessman. He is from Berlin and currently works in California;[3] he holds a U.S. citizenship and is the founder and Chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and CEO of Jumpstarter, Inc.[4][5]

Career

Early career

In 1993, his career started as an investment specialist in Berlin, Germany.[6]

When he was 19 years old, he quit his job in the bank.[3]

In the 1990s, after moving to Italy,[6] Ahlborn founded several companies in the alternative energy and interior design sphere.[7] Ahlborn left Europe and joined the Girvan Institute of Technology, a non-profit incubator, and co-working space. The institute, located in Southern California, was created to assist NASA's Ames Research Center. While working on his kitchenware company, he started thinking about ways to apply the co-working notions elsewhere.[8]

JumpStarter, Inc

He co-founded and became CEO of Jumpstarter in 2013, the company that developed the crowdsourcing platform JumpStartFund in El Segundo, California.[7]

References

  1. ^ www.forbes.com (May 28, 2015). "Perhaps We Should Call Elon Musk's Hyperloop, Dirk Ahlborn's Hyperloop Instead". Forbes.
  2. ^ Love, Dylan (July 10, 2018). "The CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies describes his vision for the future of travel". Business Insider India.
  3. ^ a b "Transportation might be changing more than ever". Bosch Global. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  4. ^ www.bosch.com (July 10, 2018). "Transportation might be changing more than ever" : Dirk Ahlborn, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies". Robert Bosch GmbH.
  5. ^ www.cnbc.com (February 23, 2018). "Hyperloop's first track location will be announced in 2018". CNBC LLC. A Division of NBCUniversal.
  6. ^ a b "Oration Speakers - Dirk-Ahlborn- Keynote Speaker". ORATION SPEAKER BUREAU. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Dirk Ahlborn – The Information and Analytical System of the Roscongress Foundation". roscongress.org. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  8. ^ "The future of transportation? A chat with Hyperloop's CEO". Tech.eu. October 16, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2019.

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