Charlie Jackson (software)
Charlie Jackson is an American computer software entrepreneur who founded Silicon Beach Software in 1984 and co-founded FutureWave Software in 1993. FutureWave created the first version of what is now Adobe Flash. He was an early investor in Wired magazine, Outpost.com, Streamload and Angelic Pictures. Jackson is currently founder/CEO of Silicon Beach Software, which develops and publishes application software for Windows 10. Business life. Startups. Jackson founded Silicon Beach Software in 1984. The company developed and published Macintosh software. It was best known for its graphics editors SuperPaint, Digital Darkroom and the multimedia authoring application  SuperCard. Silicon Beach was acquired by Aldus Corporation in 1990. That year he was named Entrepreneur of the Year in San Diego for High Tech. In 1984, Jackson also founded the San Diego Macintosh User Group. Jackson co-founded FutureWave Software with Jonathan Gay in 1993. FutureWave developed and published FutureSplash Animator. Macromedia acquired FutureWave in 1996 and renamed the product Flash 1.0, which in turn became Adobe Flash when Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems. Since late 2009, Jackson has been a mentor for San Diego sessions of the Founder Institute. In 2015, using the name Silicon Beach Software  again, he founded a company to develop graphics software for Windows 10. The company's first product is SaviDraw. Investments. Although no longer an active seed investor, Jackson made some notable investments in the 1990s. In 1993, he and Nicholas Negroponte were the two seed investors in Wired magazine. In 1994, Jackson loaned Wired Ventures the money that allowed the company to start up HotWired, the first commercial web magazine. Jackson was the seed investor in Outpost.com, an early online reseller of computer equipment. Outpost.com gained some notoriety for its TV ads in which gerbils were shot out of a  cannon and wolves attacked a high school marching band. Jackson was the first investor in Angelic Pictures, Inc. Jackson was the first investor in Streamload, an online media storage and retrieval company that was subsequently renamed Nirvanix and he was the first investor in Pacific Coast Software, publisher of WebCatalog, an e-commerce package. Current Ventures. Jackson is a principal in Angelic Pictures, Inc., a movie production company. He has been an executive producer of Angelic's movies, "The Month of August", "Hole in One: American Pie Plays Golf", "Beach Bar", "Music High", "La Migra", "Fearless" and "Space Samurai: Oasis