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  1. Personal life and death. Meister has at least one brother, Peter. [4] Von Meister died of cancer in Great Falls, Virginia, at the age of 53, [8] leaving behind his son, Frederick William von Meister.

  2. Von Meister died of cancer in Great Falls, Virginia, at the age of 53, [8] leaving behind his son, Frederick William von Meister. As a descendent of Prussian nobility , William had the honour of carrying von in his last name.

  3. May 25, 1995 · May 25, 1995. William F. von Meister, 53, a pioneer of the online services industry, died May 18 in Great Falls, Va. He was known as a consummate entrepreneur and promoter whose management...

  4. Apr 26, 2014 · Two years latter when I tried to contact him, I was sad when I heard Bill Von Meister had died from pancreatic cancer that took his life in three months after diagnosis. When we last spoke he mentioned he had a pain in his gut and was going to see the doctor about it the following week.

  5. Feb 28, 2023 · Bill Von Meister died broke, with huge debts, including hefty medical bills and burgeoning mortgage demands, and very little to show for his itinerant journey from one hopeful start-up venture to the next.

  6. Oct 27, 2017 · A terrible businessman by most standards, he could nevertheless “raise money from the dead,” as one investor put it, thereby moving on to the next scheme while the previous was still going down in flames. Still, whatever else you could say about him, Bill von Meister had vision.

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  8. Jul 17, 2019 · Von Meister and two engineers devised an information network based on “piggybacking” digital data on FM radio broadcasts using a single sideband. The system, which von Meister named Infocast, could broadcast data up to the limit of an FM broadcast (about 75 miles).