Angus co-founded Tellme, a prominent Silicon Valley technology firm that grew a
profitable business to more than $100 million in sales and over 300 employees with $238
million in backing from Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital, among other investors.
In 2007, Microsoft acquired Tellme in its largest-ever acquisition of a private company.
Angus subsequently guided speech recognition product strategy across Microsoft for two
years before leaving in 2009 to explore new opportunities.
Prior to Tellme, Angus joined Netscape Communications in 1996, bypassing college to
become the company's youngest employee at age 18. At Netscape, Angus worked in the
office of the CTO and later he was product manager for the flagship Web browser and the
Web rendering engine known as “Gecko.” In an ironic twist, he played a key role in the
anti-trust suit against Microsoft. He participated in the AOL/Netscape merger and in
establishing Mozilla.org, one of the first commercial forays into open source software.
Angus has addressed numerous industry conferences on technology and business. He has
spoken on entrepreneurship at Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley and Brown University, among
others, and he has appeared in every major US business and technology media outlet,
including CNBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, BusinessWeek, C|Net and
others. In 2006 BusinessWeek named him one of the top ten entrepreneurs under age 30.
A New England native, Angus visits Silicon Valley often but now calls Providence, RI
home. Outside business, his passion is improving K-12 public education. In 2007,
Rhode Island’s Governor appointed Angus to the Board of Regents, the state’s chief
education policy body. In just two years, Angus led a major expansion of the charter
school law and passed regulations to allow new teacher programs like Teach for America.
Angus recruited a nationally acclaimed leader to become Rhode Island’s Commissioner
of Education, replacing a 17-year incumbent. Motivating this work is Angus’ goal to
close the achievement gap, as Rhode Island’s Latino-White gap is the largest in the
nation and not a single urban district middle school in the state has even half its students
performing at grade level in any subject measured (reading, writing or mathematics).
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