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Dan Kohn

American entrepreneur (1972–2020)

Life: 1972 – 2020
Born: November 20, 1972
Died: November 1, 2020
Nationality: United States

Dan Kohn was an American serial entrepreneur and nonprofit executive who led the Linux Foundation's Public Health initiative. He was the executive director at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates open source cloud software including Kubernetes and Fluentd, through 2020. The first company he founded, NetMarket, conducted the first secure commercial transaction on the web in 1994.