Dr. Bobby and Lori Savoie have donated $5 million to the University of New Orleans College of Engineering. It is the largest gift to an academic college in the history of the University.
David vs. Google-iath: Inventor with Big Easy origins takes on Big Tech
“Imagine the money that Google has generated and think of what would have happened had that money been located here in New Orleans. Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 10:43 PM CDT May 13, 2021 Updated: 10:43 PM CDT May 13, 2021
Two years before Google’s humble beginnings in a Silicon Valley garage, David Hoyle was working on his own internet inventions in a bare-bones family apartment in Destrehan in 1996.
“I didn’t even have a garage. I had a kitchen table,” Hoyle said.
That table was where Hoyle started a company called Big Easy Technology.