The record

• 1964–77Rowland Hall St. Marks, kindergarten through high-school graduation — every year but one, spent at Graland in Denver.
• 1978Did the Ulpan program at Kibbutz Mishmar Ha’Emeq in Israel and lived in Switzerland.
• 1979–82Studied applied math at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Engineering; also a computer science teaching assistant.
• 1982–85Stanford Computer Science: MS in digital typography, working with Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow. Wrote The Euler Project, documenting my collaboration with Hermann Zapf on a new digital typeface for mathematics.
• 1986Worked at Pixar in the first year of the company’s existence.
• 1987Started Aesthetics Technology, painting Macintosh computers different colors.
• 1989–91Designed several fonts for Adobe and Linotype: Tekton, Graphite, Eaglefeather, and Zapfino.
• 1991Published What is Worth Doing? — a book on population, global warming, and diet that was 100 percent wrong.
• 1992Tried to start Famous Faces, putting famous people’s handwriting into documents as fonts. Developed the entire system and a dozen handwriting fonts, but the market crashed as we entered.
• 1994Built one of the first personal sites on the web.
• 1995Started Studio Verso, building websites for clients around the US.
• 1996Wrote Creating Killer Web Sites, the first bestseller on web design. Translated into 17 languages, it remains Amazon’s longest-running #1 bestseller ever.
• 1999Sold Studio Verso to KPMG.
• 2000Harvard Business School continuing education: Making Corporate Boards More Effective.
• 2009Published Pull, on the coming world of personal data.
• 2016Ran for dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
• 2017Raised more than $20 million for the Pillar Project.
• NowMore than 200 keynotes, from Napa Valley to Sapporo to Tel Aviv.