Richard Zack

March 13, 2026

The Unfinished Digital Estate

“Richard Zack, DADE community group member and CEO of the digital estate and legacy management platform, Eternal Me, said: “Digital estates are often treated as an afterthought in traditional planning. Yet our lives now live... Read More

November 20, 2024

Protecting Your Digital Assets

I recently had a wonderful conversation with @Angelina Carleton on the Design Your Legacy podcast about the importance of protecting your digital assets. Check it out here!... Read More

October 21, 2024

This Is Just The Beginning for Digital Assets. Are you prepared?

“The emergence of digital assets has significantly complicated the estate planning process in several ways… The sheer volume and variety of digital assets can make it difficult to identify and manage all relevant holdings. An... Read More

September 15, 2024

Eternal Me aims to help people manage their digital assets after death

“Digital assets, we think, are much more living. The estate plan to be effective needs to be updated much more frequently than a traditional estate plan…” Thank you, Sam Raudins and Albany Business Review for covering... Read More

June 14, 2021

Richard joins Canonical / Ubuntu as Global Vice President

After 4+ amazing years of running a startup, I’m excited to pursue a new leadership opportunity by joining Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux operating system (and many other products),  as their new Global Vice President of... Read More

August 5, 2020

Our.News creates ‘nutritional’ fact-checking labels to help audiences make healthier news consumption choices

“Want to know exactly what makes up your media diet? This tool breaks down all the ‘ingredients’ of online articles to fight misinformation and build readers’ trust” — Read more a Journalism.co.uk and... Read More

February 7, 2020

TechCrunch: Our.News fights misinformation with a ‘nutrition label’ for news stories

“We’ve intentionally combined objective facts about the article with subjective views,” Zack added. “We think that’s the solution … If you go purely subjective, then it’s just a popularity contest. If it’s just objective,... Read More

January 21, 2019

Troy-based start-up aims to combat online misinformation

“What if you could quickly check the “nutritional” information of a news article – the author, the story’s sources, the publisher and any bias the publication may have – like you can check the sodium in... Read More

November 3, 2018

Facebook, Twitter make moves to guard against misinformation in 2018 midterms and beyond

“On Oct. 2, New York-based tech startup Our.News has launched a Google Chrome and Firefox browser extension called Newstrition that provides users background information on media publishers for any given article, as well as... Read More

November 1, 2018

Why this serial entrepreneur in Troy is building a startup to fight misinformation

“Our.News is developing that application with the Newseum, a Washington, D.C. museum that celebrates free expression and the First Amendment, through a joint venture.” Thank you, Chelsea Diana and Albany Business Review for... Read More

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