Scott Drassinower is the President of Cloud 9 Internet, Inc. He started Cloud 9 in 1993 after being frustrated by the lack of internet access in his hometown outside of New York City. Pressed for time as a high school student and working out of a cramped office in his father's medical practice, he had incentive to quickly grow the company. Throughout the 1990s, Cloud 9 expanded to provide service to businesses, non-profits, and government agencies in the New York metropolitan area. Drassinower realized that information technology and entrepreneurship are two subjects that can be learned well in the real world, and decided to begin a course of study that is best suited for the classroom: a liberal arts education.
After graduating from Cornell in 2002 with a degree in comparative literature, he continued to build Cloud 9 as it entered its second decade. The company's new focus is information technology consulting for small and medium businesses, with an emphasis on managed services hosted in its own data center.
Originally, I started the company when I was in high school. The main reason was there was not anyone providing access to the internet in West Chester County, outside New York City, where I grew up. So it was a little cumbersome to get online. This was still pre-Web. There were no broadband serv...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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