venture capitalist Jim Barksdale

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Venture capitalist Jim Barksdale is a former Netscape CEO and prominent technology investor known for his influential role in the early internet industry.

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venture capitalist Jim Barksdale canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf business executive
chief executive officer
human
technology investor
venture capitalist
almaMater University of Mississippi NERFINISHED
awardReceived National Technology Medal (United States) recipient (as part of Netscape leadership, contextually associated)
birthDate 1943-01-20
birthPlace Jackson, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED
boardMemberOf Netscape Communications Corporation NERFINISHED
citizenship United States of America
educatedAt University of Mississippi NERFINISHED
employer AT&T NERFINISHED
AT&T Wireless NERFINISHED
Federal Express NERFINISHED
McCaw Cellular Communications NERFINISHED
Netscape Communications Corporation NERFINISHED
familyName Barksdale NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork information technology
internet industry
venture capital
founded The Barksdale Group NERFINISHED
fullName James Love Barksdale NERFINISHED
genreOfInvestment early-stage technology companies
givenName James
hasFoundedPhilanthropicOrganization Barksdale Reading Institute NERFINISHED
Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College (endowment support) NERFINISHED
hasPhilanthropicFocus education
literacy
public policy
influenced development of commercial web browsers
growth of the early internet economy
knownFor leadership in the early commercial internet industry
serving as CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation
technology investments
memberOf Democratic Party
surface form: Democratic Party (United States)
notableAchievement guided Netscape through its initial public offering
helped popularize the commercial World Wide Web
notableWork leading Netscape during the browser wars of the 1990s
occupation business executive
philanthropist
technology investor
venture capitalist
positionHeld Chief Executive Officer of Netscape Communications Corporation
Chief Operating Officer of Federal Express
residence Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED
spouse Sally Barksdale NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: venture capitalist Jim Barksdale
Description of subject: Venture capitalist Jim Barksdale is a former Netscape CEO and prominent technology investor known for his influential role in the early internet industry.

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The Barksdale Group hasFounderRole venture capitalist Jim Barksdale