Rodriguez was born in Venezuela. At the age of nine, he learned to program on an Apple II.[4] He graduated with honors from Harvard University with an A.B. in Social Studies in 1996.[5] After working for two years (see below) he returned to university to complete an MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of Business over the period 1998 to 2000.[6]
Career
After a job with Boston Consulting Group,[4] he worked at Abuzz Technologies, a social Q&A site that was founded by his brother Andres and acquired by The New York Times in 1999.[7][8] In 2000, he founded a company, Memora, with his brother. The company built and sold a home server called Servio.[8] It closed in 2001 with the bursting of the dot-com bubble.[2] He moved to New York to join MyPublisher (now part of Shutterfly[9][10]) which manufactures photo books.[2] In 2005, he founded Tabblo, a photo storyboarding website and printing company, and was CEO.[11] It was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007.[12][13] After the acquisition, he became CTO of HP's consumer printing group.[14][15]
Rodriguez holds a seat on the board of directors of Adelphic, Almond Systems, Care.com, Flatiron School, Intent Media, Markforged, Oculus VR, and Sqrrl.[4]
In academia
He was a judge in the 2012 MIT Auto-ID Labs Big Data Conference, run by the Industrial Liaison Program at MIT.[22] He was cited for his opinions on software development by Laseter et al. in a MIT Sloan Management Review.[23]
^ abMoore, Galen (2010-03-16). "Rodriguez joins Matrix Partners". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Serial entrepreneur Antonio Rodriguez announced on his blog this morning that he will take a general partner position at Waltham venture capital firm Matrix Partners.
^ abKirsner, Scott (2001-07-16). "Serve Yourself". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2015-04-23 – via HighBeam Research. Andres and Antonio Rodriguez are already living in a better world than you or me.Archived copy
^Walker, Leslie (2006-07-06). "A Clearer Picture of You". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-04-23. "We are making a big and bold bet that personal content is not about eyeballs that can be sold in quite the same way news and stock quotes are," said founder and chief executive Antonio Rodriguez.
^Rosmarin, Rachel (2007-03-22). "HP Gets Artsy". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-04-23. HP announced on Thursday that it bought Web 2.0 start-up Tabblo for an undisclosed sum.
^Malik, Om (2007-03-22). "HP goes web 2.0, buys Tabblo". Gigaom. Retrieved 2015-04-23. It was only in May 2006, I was introduced to Tabblo founder Antonio Rodriguez by Jason Shellen,
^MacManus, Richard (2007-11-07). "How a Startup Inspired HP's Print 2.0 Strategy". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved 2015-04-23. HP's Antonio Rodriguez - formerly of startup Tabblo, now Director of Research and Development for HP 's embedded web-to-print group.
^Rodriguez, Antonio. "About me". Bio at personal web site 'The Grain'. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
^Timothy M. Laseter; Elliot Rabinovich; Kenneth K. Boyer; M. Johnny Rungtusanatham (2007-04-01). "3 Critical Issues in Internet Retailing". MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved 2015-04-23. There's been a sea change in how you develop software, particularly in the consumer Internet. Cycles are now measured in ten days ... or even shorter; ...
