Elon University

Rutt, Jim

Jim Rutt was the man who coined the phrase “snail mail” (1981). He co-founded First Call, an Internet financial information service in the early 1990s and was later an executive with Network Solutions. According to a September 2001 profile in Wired, he was once called the “bad boy of the Internet” and “a wired version of Jesse Ventura.” (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)