Company context
The public record describes Blackboard as business enterprise. Its recorded founding year is 1997.
- Public business description
- business enterprise
- Country in source record
- United States
- Founding year in source record
- 1997
Recorded founders
- Stephen Gilfus · American businessman
The linked people are recorded under the company’s founder property in the cited dataset. This is a founding association, rather than a verification of current equity or management responsibility.
Understanding Blackboard in context
Blackboard is included because its public company record connects a named business to an identifiable founding team. The business description, “business enterprise,” supplies the context for that relationship, with a recorded starting year of 1997. The founding association shown here is with Stephen Gilfus. A single association in this library should not be read as a complete list of everyone who helped establish the business.
The company website listed in the source is the next place to research its current offering. Compare the company’s own description, its leadership information, and dated announcements with this reference record before drawing conclusions about today’s business. A founding year describes a historical event; it does not measure business scale, growth, or the length of a founder’s continuing involvement.
This reference library documents public founding associations. It is separate from our revenue-qualified growth profiles. Founding does not establish current ownership, employment, company revenue, or an AE client relationship.
Research trail
- Wikidata public record Q2905535: company description, country, founding year where present, and founder associations.
- Blackboard website as listed in the public record
Following up with the business
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