David Friend

Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder at Carbonite, Inc

David Friend has been a successful technology entrepreneur for over 25 years. He previously co-founded five companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software, Computer Pictures Corporation and ARP Instruments. He has been featured in USA Today, Tech Capital, The Boston Globe, Mass HiTech, Fortune, Forbes and Tom Peter's best-selling management book, The Pursuit of Wow!

David has been a lecturer at MIT's Sloan School of Management and is an active supporter of music and the arts in Boston. He is a trustee of the New England Conservatory (emeritus), Berklee College of Music, and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

David holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Yale University and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow. He is an avid marathoner, distance cyclist, windsurfer, and hiker.

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Podcast: Boston.com Interview with David Friend
Carbonite Online Backup CEO, David Friend, talks about his company's strategy, and raising the money to get it off the ground.


Article: Outside the Box: David Friend
An Interview with the Boston Business Journal.


Video: Carbonite: Backup. Simple.
Carbonite Co-Founder and CEO David Friend talks about the backup service and the importance of automatic, offsite backup.


Article: BackupReview.info Interviews David Friend
BackupReview.info Interviews David Friend, CEO, Carbonite Online Storage.


Article: Interview with David Friend CEO of Carbonite, Inc
Interview with David Friend CEO of Carbonite, Inc


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  • Dave is named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
  • June 25 2010
    The Carbonite team is very fortunate to experience the leadership and vision of our founder and CEO, David Friend, every day. We've all experienced Dave's passion for Carbonite and have been able to learn from the expertise he brings from more than 25 years of experience leading six different companies. Last night, Dave was recognized by one of the preeminent business organizations in the world, Ernst & Young, for his career accomp ...
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  • Best Places to Work Update: Carbonite is #6!
  • June 14 2010
    In a previous post, Dave mentioned that the Boston Business Journal named Carbonite one of the top 60 companies to work for in Massachusetts. At an awards breakfast on Friday morning, the 60 companies were ranked in three categories, and ...
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  • World Cup Twitter Competition – Tweet to Win
  • June 10 2010
    It may have escaped your notice, but the FIFA World Cup is almost upon us. We're big fans here at Carbonite, especially of the goal keepers. Why is this? Because we're both all about saving. Goal keepers save shots on goal, we save people's data.During World Cup, we're running a Twitter competition asking you to guess how many goals will be saved during selected World Cup matches. One lucky winner will win a brand new 16 ...
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  • Carbonite named one of the top 60 places to work in Boston
  • May 19 2010
    The Boston Business Journal recently released this year's list of the best places to work. And I'm happy to announce that Carbonite made the list! There were over 400 companies nominated for this honor and the list of the top 60 companies was determined based partly on emp ...
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  • Carbonite Wins New England Innovation Award
  • May 14 2010
    Last night Carbonite was selected as a winner of the New England Innovation Awards by the Small Business Association of New England.Over 160 companies were selected to participate in the awards process and present to a panel of judges why their company should be chosen as one of the most innovative and successful companies in New England.Carbonite was selected as one of the 16 finalists two wee ...
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  • Introducing the Carbonite App for BlackBerry phones
  • May 11 2010
    A few months ago, we introduced our iPhone app. Since then, I've gotten so much use out of it. I love being able to access my backed up files from my iPhone no matter where I am. If I'm sitting at the airport and someone calls and urgently needs a document, I can just pull it up on the iPhone and email to them. I don't need to locate a WiFi hotspot or worry about booting up my laptop.I used to use remote desktop software to ...
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  • Carbonite iPhone App passes 10,000 downloads
  • April 29 2010
    I just noticed that we passed 10,000 downloads of our Carbonite iPhone application and it's only been out a few months. It's such a useful app. My wife and I were in the car last week when she got a call from her publisher who urgently needed a copy of a chapter from her latest book. My wife's Mac is backed up with Carbonite, so she was able to find the file on her iPhone and email ...
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  • Why offsite backup is so important
  • April 12 2010
    I ran across this blog post last week:  ...
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  • Introducing Carbonite Pro
  • February 02 2010
    After lots of discussions with our small business users, we're happy to say that the product they've been asking for — Carbonite Pro — has arrived! We think it does a great job of meeting the needs of the various business owners and managers — especially with regards to being simple to use and a great value.First, unlike the Carbonite you're used to where you get unlimited backup of one PC, Carbonite Pro le ...
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  • Carbonite goes iPhone (and iPod Touch)
  • January 19 2010
    Man, this is what I've been waiting for! I have my iPhone with me wherever I go (I have to confess to being a little obsessed with it) and now I can view my backed up files — anywhere, anytime — using the new Carbonite app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. I had my first great experience with it while waiting for my plane at LaGuardia Airport. I was supposed to give a talk at a conference later that day, so I pulled up m ...
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  • Laptop Failure Rates
  • November 23 2009
    I read an interesting article on Yahoo news this morning: 1 in 3 laptops die in the first three years.The survey, conducted by SquareTrade, a warranty company, highlighted the following statistics: Looking at the first 3 years of ownership, 31% of laptop owners reported a failure to SquareTrade. Two-thirds of this failure (20.4%) came ...
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  • Listen to Carbonite CEO, Dave Friend, in the TechByter podcast
  • November 18 2009
    Bill Blinn of TechByter Worldwide interviewed our CEO, Dave Friend, for the November 15, 2009 TechByter podcast. As a Carbonite fan, Blinn discussed his confidence in our online backup service as he introduce this week’s TechByter podcast, "The real safety net, and it's one that has saved me more times than I like to admit, is Carbonite. It's easy to make a du ...
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  • Jeff Flowers is named CTO of the Year
  • November 09 2009
    I am very pleased to announce that my long-time business partner and Carbonite CTO has won the coveted "CTO of the Year" award from the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. The award was given at a big dinner at the Boston Marriott last week, and we're very proud of Jeff. He joins a group of technology leaders from the Northeast that includes many of the pionee ...
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  • Continued praise for Carbonite for Mac
  • October 28 2009
    Our Mac product, which launched earlier this year, continues to receive a good reception from the media.We've recently had reviews published with MacFormat and MacWorld magazines.Christopher Phin from MacFormat awarded ...
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