A bright idea - Meet Sunil Paul (Founder & CEO) Bright Light Technologies.
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Sunil Paul, CEO
Sunil Paul was inspired to develop a better solution to the spam problem when he and his wife began receiving dozens of spam messages a day on their email accounts. In October 1997, he founded Bright Light Technologies to put email users back in control of their email accounts and was quickly joined by four other co-founders.
Sunil previously built the first company to create a web-based push service, FreeLoader, Inc. In six months, he and a co-founder built FreeLoader from an idea into a company with a name-brand product, 40 employees, dozens of distribution partners, and over $3 million in venture financing. In 1996, Freeloader was acquired by Individual, Inc. for $38 million, making it the best and second-best performing investments in the VC portfolios of Euclid and Softbank, respectively.
Prior to FreeLoader, Sunil was AOL's first Internet Product Manager, where he successfully built out most of AOL's Internet capabilities. Before AOL, Sunil was a policy analyst at the U.S. Congress' Office of Technology Assessment, where he specialized in information technology and telecommunications, including the then-emerging Internet. Prior to that, Sunil spent three years working on NASA's Space Station Information System. He has a B.E. in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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