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| Education | Duke University (BA) Stanford Law School (JD) Stanford GSB (MBA) |
Darren Spedale is an entrepreneur and author. He founded StartOut, an organization supporting LGBT entrepreneurs.[1] He also founded Family by Design, a website supporting parenting partnerships.[2][3]
He attended Duke University,[4] where he published a senior thesis on the emerging field of domestic partnership benefits.[5] Spedale later said he began working in that field because "at that time employers were struggling with the idea of whether they should extend health care benefits and other benefits to unmarried partners of their employees."[6] In 1996, Spedale received a Fulbright Program Fellowship to conduct research in Scandinavia on their registered partnership laws.[7]
He is co-author with William Eskridge of Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse?, which was published by the Oxford University Press in 2006.[8]
Noting the lack of LGBT-specific support structure for LGBT, entrepreneurs[1] Spedale created the organization StartOut in 2009.[9]
In 2012 Spedale combined his interests in nontraditional families and entrepreneurship in a new startup focused on "parenting partnerships", whose purpose is to help adults to find an ideal parenting partner with whom to have a child together.[6]
In December 2013 and again in March 2019, Business Insider named Spedale one of the "Most Important Gay People in Tech".[10]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Bruder, Jessica (19 May 2010). "Building a Network of Gay Entrepreneurs". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ Fowler, Geoffrey A.; Rusli, Evelyn M. (12 January 2013). "Tech's Over-Sharing Economy". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ Ellin, Abby (9 February 2013). "Making a Child, Minus the Couple". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
- ↑ [s.n.] (October 2000). Answering the call. Duke University Alumni Magazine. September-October 2000.
- ↑ "The Domestic Partner Dilemma: Extending Benefits to Domestic Partners of Employees". Duke University Library Archives. 1993.
- 1 2 "Q&A: Darren Spedale, Co-Parenting Pioneer, Talks About His Latest Venture". The Advocate. 5 December 2013.
- ↑ "Fulbright Scholar Online Directory". Fulbright US Student Program. 1996.
- ↑ "Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse?". Archived from the original on 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2005-11-29.
- ↑ "Helping Gay Entrepreneurs: Conversation with Scott Wapner on CNBC". CNBC. 7 June 2010.
- ↑ Dickey, Megan Rose. "The 31 Most Important LGBT People In Tech". Business Insider. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
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