Tech Legends

The writer in the fedora: A salute to tech legend Allan Maurer from Scot Wingo

Posted by WRAL TechWire | Sep 1, 2021

Allan Maurer, a cofounder of Local Tech Wire which now is WRAL TechWire, is a legend in the North Carolina entrepreneurial community, having written about startups and entrepreneurs for more than two decades. Allan currently is recovering from illness. TechWire has reached out to numerous contacts and friends about Allan’s health and asked them to provide comments about their relationship with him over the years. Among the first to respond – but with a “story,” not a comment – was Scot Wingo, the current CEO of fast-growing RTP startup Get Spiffy.

For 25 years, Fred Hutchison has worked to help build Triangle’s startup ecosystem – here’s his story

Posted by Jason Parker | Jul 26, 2021

Hutchison is ranked by PitchBook as a top 5 venture law firm in the Southeast and celebrating its 25th anniversary with a move to a new headquarters office in Raleigh along Corporate Center Drive. In an exclusive interview, founder Fred Hutchison talks about the firm, his career, and startups.

Tech Legends: Paul Jones, director of ibiblio.org and UNC web pioneer, reflects on emergence of the internet

Posted by WRAL News | Jul 7, 2020

This is the latest in WRAL TechWire’s exclusive “Tech Legends” series in which we profile men and women who have helped create the Research Triangle and North Carolina tech economies as we know them today. In their own ways, they also have been pioneers in the development of the internet – something few people knew anything about 30 years ago. Today we feature Paul Jones, professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of ibiblio.org.

Tech Legends: Kurt Taylor ‘untapps’ beer drinking for fun and profit

Posted by WRAL News | Feb 19, 2020

Kurt Taylor has built the Wilmington-based Untappd app into the world’s most popular social drinking app, and Untappd for Business into the world’s largest beer menu publishing SaaS platform.