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April 3, 2000
Internet pioneer John Little '80 to speak
Who: John Little '80, the founder and CEO of Portal Software, Inc.
What: Lecture on "All I Needed to Know in Business I Learned at Princeton, or After Fifteen Years, I'm an Overnight Success." The lecture is free and open to the public.
When: April 5 at 7 p.m.
Where: McCosh 10 on the Princeton campus
Why: This is the part of the G.S. Beckwith Gilbert '63 lecture series, established to bring innovative leaders in business and government to campus to discuss their companies and careers.
John Little founded Portal, based in Cupertino, Calif., in 1985. He believed that a global network would spark a change in the way business is conducted, requiring new applications, services and methods of revenue generation. Over the next decade, Portal evolved as one of the country's first Internet service providers. The company introduced Infranet® software, a customer management and billing program designed specifically for the needs of the Internet and emerging communications-service providers.Before founding Portal, Little was a consultant to marketing and engineering firms focusing on online service and information retrieval. His major consulting projects included videotext trials for the Knight Ridder publishing company, electronic publishing trials for AT&T, a document processing system for Raytheon, and core technology for Dow Jones News Retrieval.
Little's achievements prompted Forbes magazine to put him on the cover of a recent issue.