Robert Denis Glaser (born January 16, 1962) is the founder of RealNetworks, which produces RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services.
[3][1] Glaser, while chief executive of RealNetworks, clashed repeatedly with Tony Fadell, widely known as the Godfather of the iPhone and iPod, who then left the company after 6 weeks and went on to founding the products for Apple.
[4] In 1983, Glaser graduated Yale University with an BS degree in Computer Science and an MA in Economics.
[10][11] In 2020 Glaser invested $10 million of his own money into the company to support its move into facial recognition technology.
[17] In 2016, he set up a web site (PutinTrump.org) to monitor and report then-candidate Donald Trump's connections to Vladimir Putin.