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Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur, philanthropist, and space tourist who became the first South African in space. Shuttleworth founded Canonical Ltd. and as of 2010, provides leadership for the Ubuntu operating system. He currently lives on the Isle of Man and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Shuttleworth was born in Welkom, Free State, South Africa as a son of a surgeon and a nursery school teacher. After attending school at Rondebosch Boys' High School and then Western Province Preparatory School[citation needed] and Diocesan College, Shuttleworth obtained a Business Science degree in Finance and Information Systems at the University of Cape Town in 1995 when he founded Thawte, a consulting firm that became a world leader in Internet security for electronic commerce. He sold the firm in 1999 to the U.S.-based company VeriSign and with his profits founded a venture capital firm and a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding education initiatives in Africa. He lived in Smuts Hall, where he was involved in the installation of the first residential Internet connections at the university.
WHD.global 2016 - Charting New Territory - A Talk With Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth on 16.04 - Ubucon/SCaLE 14x
Interview wtih Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu
Open Source in the World of App Stores
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Mobile World Congress 2016 | Mark Shuttleworth talks Ubuntu.
Mark Shuttleworth Interview | Linux Action Show 341
Go Open - Mark Shuttleworth Interview
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Mark Shuttleworth's Canonical Keynote: OpenStack Vancouver 2015
Talking about Ubuntu w/ Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth at ContainerCon
Mark Shuttleworth Pre-UOS Keynote and Q+A
Keynote | Mark Shuttleworth (Executive Chairman, Canonical) [4YFN 2016]