Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996. Gross is a lifelong entrepreneur, starting his first solar business in high school. After graduating from the California Institute of Technology, Gross started GNP Development, Inc., which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP.

In 1991, Gross started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that was eventually sold to Havas/Vivendi. Gross serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Caltech and the Art Center College of Design. Gross received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech.

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