Investing In Technology, Jerry Murdock Managing Director Insight Venture Partners

Jerry Murdock is the Managing Director and the co-founder of Insight Venture Partners, a growth-oriented, financially flexible, and entrepreneur-focused investor in expansion and late stage software, internet, and data-enabled businesses.   Jerry Murdock  plays a significant role on the investment team, and has done so since Insight’s inception in 1995.  He has played a leading role in defining the company’s investment strategy and has been primarily responsible for the development of many of the firm’s portfolio investments; he is a strategist that knows about phenomenally-thriving Technology Investing.

Prior to Insight, Jerry Murdock’s credentials were already lengthy and impressive, as founder and director (from 1988 to 1995) of the Aspen Technology Group a firm focused on providing strategic consultancy services to clients including Andersen Consulting, EDS, TRW Corporation and numerous high technology companies and private equity investment firms.  Mr. Murdock is also a member of the Board of Trustees of both The Santa Fe Institute and The Aspen Institute, and a co-founder of the Institute’s Roundtable on Information Technologies; he has also worn several directorial hats, serving as director of Fuze Box, Inc., Dorado Software, DriveCam and Beatport, Quest Software and See Beyond Technology Corp, just to name a few.  Jerry Murdock graduated with a degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and subsequently worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies where he was a contributor to the export competitiveness project.  Mr. Murdock’s work was published in The Export Competitive Series: Comparative Analysis of Export Policy, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Japan.

Taxi Anyone? Let's Thank Amos Tamam

Technology is astounding,  constantly changing, and it’s just plain wonderful!  Yet most people take it for granted, in their everyday life – with the flip of a switch lights come on, the turn of a knob and water comes out.   Most don’t spend their time wondering how or who may have been responsible for the convenience they readily enjoy.  It’s all taken for granted.

The convenience of our convenient world is made possible through the innovative efforts of pioneers such as: Zenith engineer, Dr. Robert Adler who harnessed ultrasonics to create the first truly practical wireless remote in 1956 & subsequently the couch potato was introduced shortly after.

As for the indispensable “can’t move a muscle without it” cell phone – well we have Dr. Martin Cooper to thank for that clingy device. Cooper invented the technology responsible for the development of the modern cell phone in 1973 while working as the Director of Research and Development for Motorola.

Former Engineer, Amos Tamam who invented the system of allowing cabs to be able to take credit cards for cab fare.  No longer do travelers have to be concerned about not having enough currency to pay for being transported from point A to point B by a whistle-if-you-want-one Taxi.

Amos Tamam was a classic American success story, he arrived in the United States from Israel in the early 1980’s with nothing but his electrical engineer training; he got into the cab business and eventually with diligence and determination made his way up the corporate ladder, from servicing cabs to ultimately becoming CEO of Veriphone Transportation Systems Inc.

Tamam’s system documents and reconciles driving records for taxi fleets.  A summary of credit card transactions include the fare, tolls and tips, the time and date of travel and miles driven.  The system easily enables cabbies to generate a report of the day's total fares and to reconcile credit card charges; allowing for more accurate record keeping capabilities to quickly and easily collect their earnings.

Finally, advances like this by Amos Tamam make a huge impact on so many levels, and are inspirational to novice innovators looking to make a change for the better as well as for our daily convenience.

Amos Tamam Takes Cabs from Paper to Plastic

It’s happened countless times to dozens of travelers, jumping in a cab after a tiresome flight, daydreaming about the comforts of a hot shower followed by a cozy bed, only to discover they’re without enough cash to pay the fare.  Ordinarily the cabbie would be securing the locks and detouring to the nearest police station, but that’s no longer necessary thanks to Amos Tamam, a former electrical engineer who invented the system of allowing cabs to be able to take credit cards for cab fare.
Amos Tamam was a classic American success story, he arrived in the United States from Israel in the early 1980’s with nothing but his electrical engineer training; he got into the cab business and eventually with diligence and determination made his way up the corporate ladder, from servicing cabs to ultimately becoming CEO of Veriphone Transportation Systems Inc.
Advances like this by Amos Tamam make a huge impact on so many levels, and are inspirational to novice innovators looking to make a change for the better as well as for our daily convenience.

From Paper       to       Plastic