The subject of the summary is Mr. Barkin, who is the co-founder and CEO of Wordhop- a company that aims to enhance communication between businesses and their customers through messaging. Prior to this, Mr. Barkin founded two other businesses; Stagename, a mobile entertainment company which had a user base of 30 million, and Professor Print, which was a self-service design and printing company that was sold in 2010. In 1999, Mr. Barkin launched Get 1 on 1, which was one of the first web-based live chat tools.