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Lulu is creating a new model in publishing – open publishing - that empowers more creators to sell more content to more readers more profitably than ever before.  Meet Lulu

Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 660,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.

Lulu.com, founded  in  2002,  is Young’s most recent endeavour.  The success of this company has earned Young notable recognition;  he was named  one of the “Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006” and was ranked as the fourth “Top Entrepreneur for 2006,” both by Silicon.com.

In 1993,  Young  co-founded Red Hat, the  open-source  software  company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology.  Red Hat has evolved into a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft and Sun. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week’s “Top Entrepreneurs” in 1999.

Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded.  His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat’s success.  His book, “Under  the  Radar”, chronicles how Red Hat’s open source strategy successfully won industry acceptance in a  market  previously dominated by proprietary binary-only  systems.  Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books “You’ve GOT to Read This Book!” and “Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur’s Soul.”

Young graduated from the University of Toronto in 1976 prior to beginning his career in the computer finance arena.

In 2003, Young purchased  the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League and currently serves as the league’s vice chairman.

In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.