Joseph Liemandt
- Joe Liemandt is the founder of ESW Capital, an investment firm that purchases software companies.
- ESW Capital has purchased dozens of small U.S.software companies with a strategy of moving their workforce to foreign freelance workers.
- Liemandt is known for founding Trilogy Software, a product and sales configuration software company that was prominent in the 1990s.
- He dropped out of Stanford U. to start Trilogy Software. By age 27, he was on the cover of Forbes magazine.
- A few months later, he appeared as the youngest self-made member of the 1996 issue of The Forbes 400 , with a $500 million net worth.
