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Jon Fisher, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, writer and owner of ViciNFT, CEO and co-founder of CrowdOptic. Co-inventor and co-founding CEO, Fisher built three companies including Bharosa, which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager and sold to Oracle Corporation for reported $50 million in 2007.  

Fisher was born in Stanford, California.  His father is a nuclear physicist at Stanford. Fisher attended Vassar College before graduating from the University of San Francisco.  In 1994, Fisher cofounded and was chief executive officer of AutoReach, now AutoNation company.  Former Oracle President and recent Hewlett Pachard chairman, Ray Lane was Fisher’s first angel investor.  In 1998, Fisher was the co-founder and CEO of the business software company, NetClerk, Inc., now part of Roper Technologies. The company created the online construction permit.  

In 2004, Fisher cofounded and was cheif executive officer of Bharosa, which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2007. Fisher co-founded CrowdOptic in 2011 with Jeff Broderick, Doug Van Blaricom, and Alex Malinovsky and became CEO.  

Fisher is an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco.  He wrote the book, Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-up Entrepreneurial Myths, which was published by SelectBooks in 2008.  
 
Fisher’s 2018 commencement speech at the University of San Francisco was viewed more than ten million times.  Drawing on this, his second book, I Took the Only Path to See You, published in 2021 by Wiley Publishers.  
 
Jon Fisher’s is named on over 100 patents globally.