Jeff Hawkins co-founded Handspring with Donna Dubinsky in July of 1998 after five years together at Palm Computing. In 1994, Hawkins invented the original PalmPilot products and founded Palm Computing. He is often credited as the designer who reinvented the handheld market.
An industry veteran with nearly 20 years of technical expertise, Hawkins currently holds nine patents for various handheld devices and features. His vision for handheld computing dates back to the 1980s, when as Vice President of Research at GRiD Systems Corporation he served as principal architect and designer for the GRiDPad and GRiD Convertible. Prior to that, he held key technical positions with Intel Corporation.
He is also the founder and executive director of the non-profit Redwood Neuroscience Institute, a scientific research institute working on theories and mathematical models of brain function.
Hawkins earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University.
At this time, Palm was 28 employees, we had $3M left I the bank (even at that time it wasn't a lot of
money) but what else were we going to do? Just sit around and stagnate and die? So he said, OK, let's
discuss this. We figured we didn't have time to hire more people. I was the only non-sof...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Jeff Hawkins Discusses Passion for Product Development Which Led to Becoming an Entrepreneur
Jeff Hawkins Discusses Starting a Software Company for Handheld Computers - Palm Computing
Jeff Hawkins Discusses Developing the Palm Pilot and Raising Additional Funds to Get to Market
Jeff Hawkins Discusses Importance of Following Your Passion - Which for Him is the Product
