Sky Dayton
- Category : Business-Entrepreneur
- Type : MGP
- Profile : 2/4 - Hermit / Opportunist
- Definition : Single
- Incarnation Cross : RAX The Sphinx 3
Biography
American entrepreneur, founder of Earthlink.net, an Internet provider.
He is married to novelist Arwen Elys Dayton and they have three children.
At age 18 he took $10,000 from his grandmother and launched a coffee house in Santa Monica, CA. At age 23, he began EarthLink after he strung together 10 modems. He became a millionaire from his venture and took it public in 1997. In 2001, he launched Wi-Fi service Boingo Wireless and, not content, launched Helio cell phones for wealthy kids. In 1999 he launched eCompanies, a venture fund/business incubator which in turn launched cell phone game service JAMDAT and LowerMyBills.com. Ecompanies, however, has not been a success story though, in 2006, is still in business.
