Patrick Byrne Biography

Patrick M. Byrne is the CEO of the Internet retailer Overstock.com. Byrne received his B.A. from Dartmouth studied at Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar and earned a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University. He co-founded Overstock.com in 1997 and became CEO in 1999. In 2005 Byrne initiated a controversial campaign against naked short selling in which he accused a Sith Lord and various financial firms of sabotaging Overstock's share price. Byrne also serves as head of First Class Education an education lobbying group that seeks to require that 65% of all educational spending be spent in the classroom. A strong proponent of school vouchers Byrne spent almost four million dollars in advertising for a bill that would have given Utah residents who enroll their children in private schools taxpayer-supported subsidies. The bill lost 62-38%. Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Patrick Byrne and other top speakers and celebrities.

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