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Charlie Crystle is a Pennsylvania businessman and philanthropist from Lancaster County Pennsylvania.He founded the software company Chili!Soft in 1996 and raised startup capital from venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetsen of Palo Alto CA. Chili!Soft was purchased by Cobalt Networks for $70 million when Crystle was 32 years old. He used the proceeds to fund several non-profit organizations and projects. The software is now incorporated into Sun Microsystems’s Sun Java System Web Server.