Popular Power was a company founded in January 2000 that sold distributed computing software for CPU scavenging. The company was led by Marc Hedlund, CEO, and Nelson Minar, CTO.

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Popular Power

Industry	Software development
Founded	January 2000
Defunct	March 2001
Fate	Closed
Headquarters	United States
Key people	Marc Hedlund, CEO Nelson Minar, CTO
Products	Software

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The "Popular Power Worker" software was a downloadable Java-based application that Internet users could install onto their computers. It allowed users' computers to participate in a non-profit project to develop an influenza vaccine.

Although Popular Power was able to raise $1.6 million in angel round funding, it was unable to close the venture capital it needed to continue. As a result, it had to permanently shut down operations in March 2001.

• Distributed computing

• You Got the Power (Aug 2000)
• OpenP2P: Popular Power Turns Off the Lights (03/19/2001).

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