Rubin's Page

I joined PublicEarth full time in August, 2009-- as Chief Product Officer -- and became CEO in February 2010.

What can i say: I'm a geek. I grew up with a rock and fossil collection, and a shelf that extended the length of my room that was a band of yellow -- every issue of National Geographic that arrived in our home for more than a decade. I extracted the maps from the special issues, and they decorated my walls (organized by scale). I like maps. Always have.

Today I have a wide range of interests -- including (but not limited to) movies, business, technology -- longest of those is photography, followed closely by publishing. I've written and/or published about a dozen books: Most recently DROIDMAKER, the story of George Lucas and the creation of Pixar. I designed editing systems, and edited movies and television for many years - a high point of that career was working with Bernardo Bertolucci in London, making The Sheltering Sky. I was also co-founder and CEO of Petroglyph Ceramic Lounge, one of the companies that pioneered pottery painting studios back in the early 1990s.

Bottom line: I love creating things, designing interfaces, writing and teaching, developing ideas and making them tangible. My last job was as one of the architects of the website at Netflix.