Sky Dayton - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

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Sky Dayton Biography

Sky Dayton is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on August 8, 1971 in New York, United States. He was CEO of Helio the company that makes telecoms from 2005 until it was purchased in 2008 by He was the CEO of Helio, a telecom company, from 2005 until its acquisition by Richard Branson‘s Virgin Mobile in 2008.’s Virgin Mobile in 2008.

Dayton started his first business in 1990 at age 19. He and a friend raised money from family and friends to open Mocha Gallery (later Cafe Mocha), an art gallery and coffee house in Los Angeles. While managing Cafe Mocha, Dayton and friend Adam Wicks Walker opened Dayton/Walker Design in 1992, a Studio City advertising and design firm, serving entertainment clients including Fox Television, Disney, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, and Warner Brothers.

In 1993, after initially having great difficulties getting his Macintosh computer to access the Internet, Dayton said that he realized that the Internet was likely to become the next mass communications medium. In an article in Vanity Fair, Dayton described his earliest interest in the Internet and its business potential:

He has three children along with his wife, who is a writer Arwen Elys Dayton.

He was becoming frustrated by the inability of connecting with the Internet, which is why he created Earthlink as his own ISP at the age of 23.

Sky Dylan Dayton (born August 8, 1971) is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder of Internet service provider EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, and the founder of Boingo.

Sky Dayton Net Worth

Sky is one of the richest Entrepreneur from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sky Dayton's net worth $275 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He and his colleagues set up an upscale coffee shop within Los Angeles.

He was chosen as Entrepreneur of the Year in 1999 by the Lloyd Greif Center at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. In 1999, Dayton was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100, a list of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35, and in 2010 was a recipient of the Dream Keeper award from the I Have a Dream Foundation.

In June 1999, Dayton’s title changed again, this time to non-executive chairman of EarthLink. He formed eCompanies, an incubator and venture capital fund for developing Internet companies, with former Disney Internet chief Jake Winebaum. A privately held company, eCompanies successfully launched LowerMyBills.com, which was purchased by Experian in 2005 for $380 million and JAMDAT Mobile, which went public and was then purchased by Electronic Arts in 2005 for $680 million. Dayton and eCompanies made headlines by buying the Business.com domain name for $7.5 million, believed to be the highest price ever paid for a domain at the time, during the height of the dot com bubble; they later sold the Business.com search portal to RH Donnelly in 2007 for $345 million.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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EarthLink started in a small office of 600 square feet (56 m) in Los Angeles, California. By the summer of 1995, EarthLink reached an agreement with UUNET allowing it to provide service nationwide. By 1996, the company was growing at a rate of 5–10% a week. Dayton transitioned his title from founding CEO to executive chairman, handing over day-to-day operations of the company to Charles “Garry” Betty. A long-time Mac user, Dayton led the creation of a strategic partnership with Steve Jobs at Apple in 1998 that made EarthLink the default ISP pre-loaded on the iMac. This arrangement led to a $200 million investment by Apple in EarthLink. EarthLink grew to become the second largest U.S. Internet service providers, after AOL, with more than four million customers and over $1 billion in annual revenue.

Who is Sky Dayton Dating?

According to our records, Sky Dayton married to Arwen Elys Dayton. As of January 13, 2024, Sky Dayton’s is not dating anyone.

In 2005, Dayton became CEO of Helio, a mobile phone joint venture of EarthLink and SK Telecom, formed with $220 million in funding from each company. At that time, Dayton resigned as chairman of EarthLink but remained a director. In January 2008, he was appointed Chairman of Helio’s Board of Directors for the months leading up to Helio’s acquisition by Virgin Mobile USA in June, 2008.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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In 1994, Dayton founded EarthLink, an Internet service provider (ISP) that would offer Internet access to the public. Kevin O’Donnell, father of a childhood friend, and Reed Slatkin became EarthLink’s first financial backers. Other investors followed, including Greg B. Abbott, former AT&T CFO Robert Kavner, Chip Lacy, and eventually larger investors such as George Soros.

In 2007, Dayton served on the advisory board of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Facts & Trivia

Sky Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Sky Dayton celebrates birthday on August 8 of every year.

In 2011, he co-hosted an event to support then Deputy Mayor and Independent candidate Austin Beutner in the Los Angeles mayoral election, 2013.

How much is Sky Dayton worth?

Dayton is a board member of digital education company Age of Learning, which raised $150 million in 2016 at a $1 billion valuation, and $300 million in July 2021, giving the company a $3 billion valuation.

Who founded Earthlink?

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Does anyone still use EarthLink?

Earthlink Internet services claim over 1 million customers. With the Trive Capital acquisition in January 2019, EarthLink services include Internet access, premium email, web hosting and privacy and data security products.

Is EarthLink owned by AT&T?

AT&T Broadband agreed to offer Internet provider EarthLink Inc.’s service on its cable lines, in a move that could help satisfy potential regulatory concerns about its merger with Comcast Corp.

Is EarthLink the same as CenturyLink?

EarthLink and CenturyLink are two of the largest internet providers in the United States. Both providers offer widespread DSL and fiber connections with a variety of pricing and speed options. EarthLink provides service to 43 states. Trailing closely behind, CenturyLink supplies service to 39 states.

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