Career
Early career After graduating from Hampshire College with a Bachelor in Communications, Kurnit became a Program Director at WGBY-television (WGBH) He was the youngest program director in the Public Broadcasting Service system and served as program director for QUBE, the world’s first fully interactive cable television system. Showtime He started the first pay-per-view cable network and co-led the team that implemented the first use of national caller Idaho. Subsequently, he was president of Showtime Event Television Prodigy and Microwave Communications Incorporated Kurnit led the team that put the first web browser into an online service at the Prodigy network. Following Prodigy, Kurnit joined Microwave Communications Incorporated to oversee Microwave Communications Incorporated"s attempts to grow its business in the Internet market.
About.com Kurnit founded About.com and served as its Chief Executive Officer during its growth to a public market value of $1.5 billion.
About.com was acquired by PRIMEDIA in 2001, and later sold again to the New York Times Company in 2005. Kurnit left the Chief Executive Officer position in 2001 after the sale to Primedia.
In 2002 a class action suit was brought against About.com, Primedia, (About"s former owner) Kurnit and others The court dismissed all claims against Kurnit from the suit in August 2007.
Keep Holdings Kurnit founded AdKeeper.com in early 2010.
He is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Keep Holdings.com, the parent company of Keep.com (which allows keeping, discussion and sharing of favorite products), TheSwizzle.com (a product for managing commercial offers in user email boxes), and AdKeeper.com (a means by which users can save online advertisements for viewing at a time of their choosing). Kurnit serves on the boards or is active with Paley Center for Media and Mianus River Gorge Preserve.