Gina Bianchini is the co-founders of Ning; a platform for creating social media websites. Bianchini, along with Marc Andreessen, founded Ning in October 2005. Bianchini holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from Stanford Business School. Prior to Ning, she served as co-founder and President of Harmonic Communications.
With an estimated annual revenue of more than $10 million, Ning is considered to be the world’s largest platform for creating social websites, with more than 2.3 million user-created Ning Networks and more than 45 million registered users.
In 2010, Bianchini announced that she will be stepping down as CEO of Ning; moving to Marc Andreessen’s new venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as an Executive in Residence (EIR). Aside from being one of the co-founders of Ning, Marc Andreessen is also the co-founder of the popular Netscape browser.
Bianchini has been featured in New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, CNN and CNBC; and Ning has been labelled as one of the world’s most valuable start-ups.
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