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Hello, I work for Roku, and I would like to expand this article. The current Career section is incomplete. Please rewrite it as follows to include a more thorough account of Wood's career:
Wood was interested in coding at a young age. As a teen he published Lunar Lander in Ahoy Magazine. [1]
While in college, Wood started SunRize Industries which developed software and hardware for the Commodore Amiga. After graduating from college, he founded SunRize version 2. [2] In 1995, Wood launched a third company, iBand, which was bought by Macromedia for $36 million. Wood became the vice president of Internet authoring at Macromedia. [3]
Wood left Macromedia in September 1997 to start ReplayTV, the first digital video recorder. [4] Designed to prevent viewers from missing their favorite TV shows, Wood was inspired to invent the DVR after being continually frustrated at missing episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A top competitor of TiVo [5], ReplayTV won Best of Show in its category at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1999. [6] Features introduced by ReplayTV included commercial skipping and pausing live television. [7] Wood was president and CEO of ReplayTV, which he sold in 2002 to SONICblue for $42 million. [8]
Wood founded Roku in October 2002 and has been the CEO and chairman ever since. [9] Roku means ‘six’ in Japanese, as it is the sixth company founded by Wood. [10] In 2007, Wood worked with Reed Hastings as vice president of internet president of internet TV at Netflix. He brought Project Griffin, Netflix’s streaming player, to production. [11] Roku led to the formation of BrightSign, a company which applies commercial applications of Roku technology. [12] As of November 2017, Wood owned 27.3% of Roku. [13] He holds more than 50 patents to development in DVR and media streaming technology. [14] [15]
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Thank you for your help. YZ for Roku ( talk) 16:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
In order to further update this page, I propose a philanthropy section should to address some of the more significant donations that Wood has made.
Wood and his wife, Susan, invested $48.2 million to create WoodNext Philanthropies. They pay specific attention to Texas based causes to provide economic opportunity and the alleviation of poverty. [1]. In 2022, Wood made $71 million in charitable commitments, and was recognized on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of America’s 50 biggest donors [2] He donated $14.3 million to the University of Pittsburgh in 2023 for the study of heart disease and dementia, [3] and $1.25 million to establish the BrightEdge Entrepreneurship Fellows Program through the the American Cancer Society. [4]
Thanks for your assistance in updating the page, YZ for Roku ( talk) 23:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
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Tagging Vazival, who was so helpful with the last update. YZ for Roku ( talk) 23:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I work for Roku, and I would like to expand this article. The current Career section is incomplete. Please rewrite it as follows to include a more thorough account of Wood's career:
Wood was interested in coding at a young age. As a teen he published Lunar Lander in Ahoy Magazine. [1]
While in college, Wood started SunRize Industries which developed software and hardware for the Commodore Amiga. After graduating from college, he founded SunRize version 2. [2] In 1995, Wood launched a third company, iBand, which was bought by Macromedia for $36 million. Wood became the vice president of Internet authoring at Macromedia. [3]
Wood left Macromedia in September 1997 to start ReplayTV, the first digital video recorder. [4] Designed to prevent viewers from missing their favorite TV shows, Wood was inspired to invent the DVR after being continually frustrated at missing episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A top competitor of TiVo [5], ReplayTV won Best of Show in its category at the Consumer Electronics Show in 1999. [6] Features introduced by ReplayTV included commercial skipping and pausing live television. [7] Wood was president and CEO of ReplayTV, which he sold in 2002 to SONICblue for $42 million. [8]
Wood founded Roku in October 2002 and has been the CEO and chairman ever since. [9] Roku means ‘six’ in Japanese, as it is the sixth company founded by Wood. [10] In 2007, Wood worked with Reed Hastings as vice president of internet president of internet TV at Netflix. He brought Project Griffin, Netflix’s streaming player, to production. [11] Roku led to the formation of BrightSign, a company which applies commercial applications of Roku technology. [12] As of November 2017, Wood owned 27.3% of Roku. [13] He holds more than 50 patents to development in DVR and media streaming technology. [14] [15]
References
Thank you for your help. YZ for Roku ( talk) 16:13, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
References
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
In order to further update this page, I propose a philanthropy section should to address some of the more significant donations that Wood has made.
Wood and his wife, Susan, invested $48.2 million to create WoodNext Philanthropies. They pay specific attention to Texas based causes to provide economic opportunity and the alleviation of poverty. [1]. In 2022, Wood made $71 million in charitable commitments, and was recognized on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s list of America’s 50 biggest donors [2] He donated $14.3 million to the University of Pittsburgh in 2023 for the study of heart disease and dementia, [3] and $1.25 million to establish the BrightEdge Entrepreneurship Fellows Program through the the American Cancer Society. [4]
Thanks for your assistance in updating the page, YZ for Roku ( talk) 23:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
References
Tagging Vazival, who was so helpful with the last update. YZ for Roku ( talk) 23:43, 17 March 2024 (UTC)