TED Community » Eric Greenspan

About Me

I like doing stuff and making something out of nothing. I've started three companies from the "third bedroom" or "garage" on a credit card. I've been married three times, two kids from two different moms. It's a challenge everyday, but I love my sons and I love what I do. My passion for creating runs deep and I like to build extreme companies. 2012 will be my third consecutive TEDActive. I'm also a TEDxer and co-produced TEDxAmericanRiviera "Imagine that..." on 10/10/10 in Santa Barbara at the Bacara Resort and Spa. The 11/11/11 event "The spark within..." will be held at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California. I also stay very active in local school functions, sponsorship of local youth sports teams and I have a hard time saying no.

I've been profiled by numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Mobile Enterprise Magazine, the Orange County Register, PC/Magazine, Windows2000 Magazine, the Montecito Journal, the Santa Barbara News Press, Pacific Coast Business Times and others. I was named a Who’s Who in Technology and made the 40 Under 40 list in the Pacific Coast Business Times and I have made semi and finalist in the Entrepreneur of the Year categories for Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouse Entretech and the Technology Council of Southern California but I've never won it! I'm a former board member of the Technology Council of Southern California and the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation. I'm also a regular speaker at USC’s, Marshall School of Business presenting the USC/Make It Work, Inc. Case Study to MBA candidates and UCLA’s Anderson School, Entrepreneurship Institute. I love to talk, so this works for me.

I have two amazing sons, Jacob (15) and Jackson (2). We live in beautiful Montecito, California (part of Santa Barbara). I golf, wakeboard, cook, eat, travel and live life to its fullest.