Benjamin Franklin duPont was born in 1964; his father was the politician
Pierre S. du Pont IV. He graduated from
Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering in 1986.
Career In 1986 duPont began working for the
DuPont corporation, a company the du Ponts founded in 1802. He held a number of management positions in the company over 13 years. In 1999, he left DuPont to cofound
yet2.com with Phillip Stern, a U.S. patent distribution firm in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. DuPont became the company's president. After a year of development the firm had raised $24 million in financing and was described by
Forbes magazine as a "quasi-clearinghouse for technology developed by corporations" where both inventors and companies can post their patents for sale or lease to other firms. In December 2002, yet2.com was acquired by Scipher, but the next year duPont reacquired it from Scipher and became its executive director. In 2015, he co-founded Zip Code Wilmington. ==Personal life==