- REDIRECTMichael Birch (businessman)
{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}} Xochi Birch is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur in San Francisco. Xochi is married to Michael Birch, with whom she co-founded over half a dozen startups in the past 15 years. Together with Michael's brother Paul Birch they founded BirthdayAlarm.com and with Morgan Sowden they founded Ringo.com (which was sold to tickle.com in 2003).[1] Xochi and Michael later founded the online social networking website Bebo[2] in January 2005, with a major launch in July 2005. In 2007, Bebo had over 45 million registered users and was the sixth most popular site in the UK, bigger than AOL, Amazon.co.uk and bbc.co.uk.[3]
Xochi and Michael Birch sold Bebo to AOL in March 2008 for $850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal.[4] Since then, the two have started five separate companies they run in parallel.[5] Their current project is The Battery, an exclusive but not elite members club[6] in San Francisco, with their vision stated as “to create a culture where inspiration is embraced, diverse communities come together and egos are checked at the door.”[7]
Xochi and Michael are supporters of the non-profit organization charity:water, having given over $4 million to their organization.[8]
References [link]
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- ↑ How to make 80 million friends and influence people at https://observer.guardian.co.uk (accessed October 12, 2007)
- ↑ FT.com / In depth - AOL to ‘supercharge’ Bebo revenues
- ↑ BBC interview with Michael and Xochi Birch on starting Bebo
- ↑ Bebo Founders Go Analog With Exclusive Battery Club in San Francisco
- ↑ The Battery San Francisco
- ↑ {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Xochi_Birch
Birch
Birch is a thinleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula (/ˈbɛtjʊlə/), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams, and is closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The genus Betula contains 30 to 60 known taxa of which 11 are on the IUCN 2011 Green List of Threatened Species. They are a typically rather short-lived pioneer species widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in northern temperate and boreal climates.
Description
Birch species are generally small to medium-sized trees or shrubs, mostly of temperate climates. The simple leaves are alternate, singly or doubly serrate, feather-veined, petiolate and stipulate. They often appear in pairs, but these pairs are really borne on spur-like, two-leaved, lateral branchlets. The fruit is a small samara, although the wings may be obscure in some species. They differ from the alders (Alnus, other genus in the family) in that the female catkins are not woody and disintegrate at maturity, falling apart to release the seeds, unlike the woody, cone-like female alder catkins.
Birch (surname)
Birch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
William Hamilton Page
William Hamilton Page (1829–1909) was a type designer and owner of William Page & Company, a leading manufacturer of wood type for letterpress printing.
Life and career
Page worked as a printer for several newspapers before learning the trade of wood type manufacturing from John Cooley in South Windham, Connecticut. In 1856 he and James Bassett purchased the assets of the defunct H. &. J. Bill & Company and went into partnership as Page & Bassett. In 1859 he withdrew from this partnership and became partners with Samuel Mowry, forming William Page & Company, near Norwich, Connecticut. This firm quickly became the largest and most efficient manufacturer of wooden type in the United States. It was only in the 1880s that a serious rival, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company owned by J.E. Hamilton, emerged. When Page retired in 1891, he sold out to Hamilton for stock in that company, and Page's equipment and stock were consolidated with that of Hamilton in Two Rivers, Wisconsin.
