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About Brian Hinman
- Brian L.
- Hinman (born August 22, 1961 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an entrepreneur and investor in high technology businesses, especially the computer-based communications industry. Hinman founded three successful (annual revenues greater than $500 million) high technology companies; PictureTel Corp.
- (Videoconferencing), Polycom (Conference call), and 2Wire (digital subscriber line).
- Both PictureTel Corp.
- and Polycom had Initial Public Offerings.
- Hinman and his co-founders took PictureTel public in November 1984, only three months after the company was founded, and two years before the first product was shipped.
- 2Wire was acquired by set-top box maker Pace in July, 2010.
- Technologies where Hinman has been granted patents include video compression and conference calls.
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