Jack Herrick

Founder at wikiHow

Jack Herrick began their career in 1998 as an Associate at McKinsey & Company. In 1999, they co-founded and served as CEO of BigTray, a Sequoia funded e-commerce company in the restaurant supply industry which was later acquired by TriMark. In 2002, they co-founded Luminescent Technologies, a semiconductor technology company acquired by KLA-Tencor. In 2004, they became the owner and co-CEO of eHow, helping it become the most popular how-to site on the web before selling it to Demand Media in 2006. Finally, in 2005, they founded wikiHow, the world's most popular how-to website, which teaches over 100 million people a month how to do anything in 17 different languages. Jack has also been an angel investor since 2000.

Jack Herrick attended Stanford University from 1987 to 1991, where they studied History. Jack then attended Dartmouth College from 1995 to 1997, and The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth from 1995 to 1997.

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  • Founder

    January, 2005 - present

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