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Wilmington, North Carolina once had a thriving Black middle class and an elected interracial government. In 1898 white supremacists used violence to overthrow that government, kill Black residents and drive many others from the city.
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Kevin Harvey | |
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| Born | Sunnyvale, California, U.S. |
| Education | Rice University |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist |
| Employer | General Partner at Benchmark |
Kevin R. Harvey is an American businessperson and venture capitalist. He is a founder and general partner at Benchmark Capital.
As a software entrepreneur, he founded companies such as StyleWare and Approach Software in the 1990s and was recognized for it.[1]
Harvey is also known for founding Rhys Vineyards and its offshoot Aeris.
Harvey was ranked No. 27 on the 2011 Forbes' Midas List[2] and was No. 59 in 2012.[3]
Harvey was born in Sunnyvale, California and spent his early life in Texas.[4]
For his college education, Harvey attended Rice University and graduated with a BS degree in electrical engineering in 1987.[5][6]
The first company Harvey founded was StyleWare, a software company which was based in Houston and was a publisher of more than ten software products, including Multiscribe.[7] In 1988, Claris Corporation, a subsidiary of Apple, acquired the company.[7] After the purchase, the Styleware continued to develop it as ClarisWorks.
Harvey founded Approach Software and was its president.[8] He led the development of the first end-user client/server database for Microsoft Windows. Lotus Development acquired Approach Software in 1993.[8]
Harvey co-founded Benchmark Capital in 1995.[9] The firm has invested in multiple companies, including eBay, OpenTable, Snapchat, Twitter and Uber. Some companies have gone to complete successful IPOs, including Red Hat and Proofpoint.[10]
As a general partner at Benchmark Capital, Harvey also led the firm's investments in such companies as BOKU, Bytemobile (now part of Citrix Systems), CollabNet, CloudPassage, Eucalyptus Systems (acquired by HP), Highlight (acquired by Pinterest), Ingenio (acquired by AT&T), Metaweb (acquired by Google), MySQL, oDesk, oFoto (acquired by Kodak), RemarQ Communities (acquired by Critical Path, Inc.), RightScale, Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft), When.com (acquired by America Online), Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!), and Minerva University.[6]
Harvey is on the boards of Upwork and Minerva.[5][9]
In 1995, Harvey began his wine project planting vines in his backyard and making wine in his garage.[1][11] This lead him to become the founder of Rhys Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where he had his first harvest in 2004.[11][4]
Rhys Vineyards has produced award-winning wines.[4] Antonio Galloni, a wine critic, has called it, "one of the finest wineries in the United States." [12]
Rhys Vineyards has developed eight estate vineyards. Six of these, including Alpine, Family Farm, Home, Horseshoe, Mount Pajaro and Skyline, are located in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA.[9] The two additional vineyards, Bearwallow, located in Anderson Valley, and Clarke Ranch, located in Mendocino County.[9]
In August 2019, Kevin Harvey agreed to pay $3.76 million in penalties after his company bulldozed a protected wetland and filled in a stream bed to build a vineyard in Mendocino County. This settlement represents one of the largest ever involving water quality on the North Coast. The damage to the stream is so extreme that regulators determined the stream system to be beyond saving, and large portion of the fine will go towards improving two other nearby stream systems.[13]
Rhys Vineyards has also developed a ninth estate vineyard, Centennial Mountain, devoted to Italian grape varieties.[14] These wines were sold under the Aeris label.[15] As part of this project, the Aeris team brought in two Sicilian grape varieties, Carricante and Nerello Mascalese, that are not known to have been grown in California prior.[16] The San Francisco Chronicle has described Carricante as "The best white wine you have never tasted".[14] Aeris also owned two vineyards in Sicily and these wines were also sold under the Aeris label.[16] In 2025, the label rebranded to the namesake of the vineyard, Centennial Mountain.
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Kevin R. Harvey is an American businessperson and venture capitalist. He is a founder and general partner at Benchmark Capital. As a software entrepreneur, he founded companies such as StyleWare and Approach Software in the 1990s and was recognized for it. Harvey is also known for founding Rhys Vineyards and its offshoot Aeris. Harvey was ranked No. 27 on the 2011 Forbes' Midas List and was No. 59 in 2012.
Software testing is the act of checking whether software meets its intended objectives and satisfies expectations. Software testing can provide objective, independent information about the quality of software and the risk of its failure to a user or sponsor or any other stakeholder. Software testing can determine the correctness of software for specific scenarios but cannot determine correctness for all scenarios. It cannot find all bugs. Based on the criteria for measuring correctness from an oracle, software testing employs principles and mechanisms that might recognize a problem. Examples of oracles include specifications, contracts, comparable products, past versions of the same product, inferences about intended or expected purpose, user or customer expectations, relevant standards, and applicable laws. Software testing can be functional or non-functional in nature. Software testing is often dynamic in nature: running the software to verify actual output matches expected. It can also be static in nature: reviewing code and its associated documentation. Software testing is often used to answer the question: Does the software do what it is supposed to do and what it needs to do? Information learned from software testing may be used to improve the process by which software is developed. A commonly suggested approach to automated testing is the "test pyramid," wherein most of the tests are unit tests, followed by a smaller set of integration tests and finally a few end-to-end (e2e) tests.
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Iterative and incremental development is any combination of both iterative design (or iterative method) and incremental build model for development. Usage of the term began in software development, with a long-standing combination of the two terms iterative and incremental having been widely suggested for large development efforts. For example, the 1985 DOD-STD-2167 mentions (in section 4.1.2): "During software development, more than one iteration of the software development cycle may be in progress at the same time." and "This process may be described as an 'evolutionary acquisition' or 'incremental build' approach." In software, the relationship between iterations and increments is determined by the overall software development process.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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