Halsey McLean Minor Sr. is an American businessman who is known for founding CNET in 1993, the first comprehensive consumer-facing technology content publisher. He is also the founder or co-founder of the technology companies such as the virtual reality startup Live Planet, VideoCoin, and Vivid Labs. Minor was born in 1964 and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia. He moved to New York City to work as an investment banker for Merrill Lynch. He was an early internet visionary who is the founder of technology companies that have created over $100 billion in cumulative value including CNET, Uphold, Live Planet, Salesforce.com, Google Voice, OpenDNS, Vignette and founder of Vivid Labs. Minor is also the founder of Minor Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to helping start-ups. Apart from being actively involved in technology and start-ups, he is an avid collector of fine arts, as well as an ardent horse-racing fan. In June 2013, Minor filed for bankruptcy listing his personal debts. He continues to have his hand in a number of companies including cryptocurrency company Uphold and Vivid Labs, a publishing and management platform that allows anyone to create, manage and sell multimedia NFTs. Personal life Halsey Minor is married to his second wife. He has seven children. Minor was divorced from his first wife in 2005, Deborah Minor. He lives in Beverly Hills, California, but spends much of his time near his family in Virginia. He discovered the identity of his biological father who was living 30 miles away from his son in Benicia, California Minor has donated money to both the Republican and Democratic political parties. Early life and education Halsey Minor was born in 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia. His father was a real estate broker, Charles Venable Minor Jr. His mother bred and trained horses. Some of his grandparents were war heroes in the Civil War and World War II respectively. His first entrepreneurial project was a "triple-decker version of checkers" that Minor created when he was 9 and tried to sell to Milton Bradley. Minor started showing an interest in computers around age 10. As a teenager, Minor started a fence-painting company. He attended the prestigious all-boys boarding school Woodberry Forest in Madison County, Virginia. Afterwards, he studied anthropology at the University of Virginia, where he joined the Delta Phi fraternity. He initially wanted to help third-world countries develop their infrastructure. While in college, Minor started a business