page_title: Jack Dangermond
hierarchical_section_title: Jack Dangermond
caption_attribution_description: Jack Dangermond, Esri president. U.S. Mission photo by Eric Bridiers
context_page_description: Jack Dangermond, an American billionaire businessman and environmental scientist, co-founded in 1969 the Environmental Systems Research Institute, a privately-held geographic information systems software company.
  Dangermond, the company's president, works at its headquarters in Redlands, California. Dangermond founded Esri to perform land-use analysis; however, its focus evolved into GIS-software development, highlighted by the release of ARC/INFO in the early 1980s; the development and marketing of ARC/INFO positioned Esri with the dominant market share among GIS-software developers. As of 2020 Esri is the largest GIS-software developer in the world; its flagship product, ArcGIS, traces its heritage to Dangermond's initial efforts in developing ARC/INFO.
context_section_description: Jack Dangermond (born 1945), an American billionaire businessman and environmental scientist, co-founded (with his wife Laura) in 1969 the Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), a privately-held geographic information systems (GIS) software company.
  Dangermond, the company's  president, works at its headquarters in Redlands, California.  Dangermond founded Esri to perform land-use analysis; however, its focus evolved into GIS-software development, highlighted by the release of ARC/INFO in the early 1980s; the development and marketing of ARC/INFO positioned Esri with the dominant market share among GIS-software developers.  As of 2020 Esri is the largest GIS-software developer in the world; its flagship product, ArcGIS, traces its heritage to Dangermond's initial efforts in developing ARC/INFO.
caption: Dangermond in 2012
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