Joe Kraus

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Kim Polese and Joe Kraus at the Web 2.0 Conference (2005)
Kim Polese and Joe Kraus at the Web 2.0 Conference (2005)

Joe Kraus is a founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time partner Graham Spencer. A long time entrepreneur, Joe has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. Upon graduation from Stanford University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in political science, he joined with five engineering friends to found the Internet company Excite, which would declare bankruptcy in 2001 [1]. The original president of Excite, Joe was deeply involved in product strategy, direction and vision as the company grew. He also held senior operational roles in business development, international development and content.

After leaving Excite@Home in 2000, Joe was a co-founder of Digitalconsumer.org, a non-profit grassroots consumer organization with more than 50,000 members dedicated to protecting consumers' fair-use rights to digital media. Joe, along with other co-founder Graham Spencer, continues to work on these important issues. In 2006, Joe joined the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to his non-profit focus, he has also spent many years as an angel investor, working with numerous early-stage technology companies.

Joe was CEO of JotSpot, which was purchased by Google in 2006.

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