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  2. Nov 9, 2021 · Dale Kyker is the owner of Kyker’s Extreme Automotive in Greeneville, Tennessee, whereas Scott Jones seems to be his right-hand man. While we know that the former is an area native who got into the industry at 15, the latter relocated to East Tennessee from Nevada to be closer to his step-sister.

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  3. Jul 15, 2021 · A six-foot-six-but-awkward basketball player who moved here from Kentucky with his parents during high school, Jones wasn’t good enough to play at North Central, so he taught himself how to build computers.

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    Jones is often credited with inventing voicemail, but in reality he improved a system that was already in existence. Inventor and entrepreneur Gordon Matthews invented voicemail in the 1970s, according to an obituary written by the New York Times. Fast forward to the mid-1980s, Jones and business partner Greg Carr founded Boston Technology Inc. Jon...

    Jones returned from Massachusetts to Indiana in 1995. And of the many things that he did here, he successfully lobbied for the Hoosier State to adopt daylight savings time. Doing so synchronized Indiana's business interests with those outside of the state. Jones funded a group called the Hoosier Daylight Savings Time Coalition, which visited city c...

    Flush with cash, Jones could have retired after leaving Boston Technology, but instead he embarked on a decades-long career in entrepreneurship and venture capitalism. He founded Escient Technology in 1996 to merge the Internet and television. He also has been credited as a founder or investor in a list of other companies, including Gazelle TechVen...

    Jones became a multimillionaire by age 28, according to former a IndyStar article. His inventive spirit not only brought him wealth, but it also made him a bit of a celebrity. Not only was he known in Indiana, but he also made headlines in newspapers nationally and internationally. People magazine named him one of America's Top 50 bachelors in the ...

    Jones' wealth and creative lifestyle aren't the only aspects of his life that landed him in the news. In 2011, Jones married Vee Lee, whom he met on a dating site. Roughly two years later, the couple would end up in the newswhen Vee told her 50,000 Twitter followers that her husband was having an affair with a ChaCha employee. She also talked about...

    Jones seems to be having an Icarus moment. In a shocking and sobering 2021 profile, The Indianapolis Monthlyreported that Jones burned through a more than $400 million fortune, thanks to the failure of ChaCha, a contentious divorce and lavish spending. At the the time, he had just $1,332 in his checking account, the magazine said, which asked if Jo...

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  4. Most folks in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel know Scott Jones as "the guy who invented voicemail." In the early '90s Jones made about $50 million on his company, which created the...

  5. Jul 31, 2013 · Teenage paralympic shot-putter Scott Jones talks to BBC Gloucestershire's Steve Kitchen about his ambitions for the future after his success at the IPC World Championships. The 15-year-old...

  6. Jul 31, 2013 · World champion shot putter Scott Jones says missing out on London 2012 has made him even more determined to compete at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. The 15-year-old from Cheltenham was left out of...

  7. Jul 25, 2013 · Teenager Scott Jones claimed a shock gold medal - and a world record - at the IPC World Athletics Championships. Competing in his first major international tournament, the 15-year-old from...