Author: <a href="https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/author/skydayton/" target="_blank">Sky Dayton</a>

Author: Sky Dayton

Sky Dayton, the founder and chairman of EarthLink and the founder and CEO of Boingo Wireless, was introduced to computers in 1980, when he was nine years old, by his grandfather, an IBM Fellow. He graduated from the Delphian School, a private boarding high school, in 1988 and decided to forgo college to pursue his interests in technology. After two years managing the computer graphics departments of two advertising firms, he co-founded the Cafe Mocha coffee house in West Hollywood, California. In 1992, while still managing the coffee house, he co-founded Dayton Walker Design, a computer graphics boutique catering to the entertainment industry. In 1994, he founded EarthLink, which is now the largest independent Internet service provider in the U.S., with five million customers, over $1 billion in annual revenue and thousands of employees. He launched Boingo Wireless in December 2001. Mr. Dayton and his wife, Arwen, live in Los Angeles.

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