Biography of Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking website Myspace with Chris DeWolfe in 2003. He and his colleague Chris DeWolfe founded the website “MySpace” in 2003 while working as product testers. He was the president of the site as well as its strategic advisor. Anderson became known as “MySpace Tom” and was dubbed “the soul of the website”.
How old is Tom Anderson? – Age
Anderson was born on November 8, 1970 in Santa Monica, California, United States of America. He turns 52 in November 2022.
Education of Tom Anderson
In Escondido, California, he attended San Pasqual High School. He graduated from the University of California – Berkeley in 1998 with a degree in English and Rhetoric. Anderson spent some time in Taiwan before returning to “University of California – Los Angeles”. He obtained his second degree in “Critical Film Studies” in 2000.
Tom Anderson Married – Wife
It is believed that Tom is currently single as there is no accessible data on his love life.
Tom Anderson Career
Anderson met DeWolfe in 2000 while working as a product tester and copywriter at XDrive, a digital storage company. He first joined XDrive as a product tester after responding to a flyer ad while still in film school and looking for some extra cash. Following the failure of XDrive in 2001, he and DeWolfe co-founded the direct marketing company ResponseBase. In late 2002, they sold ResponseBase to Brad Greenspan’s eUniverse. Anderson and other eUniverse employees created the first Myspace pages in August 2003. He created the site in part in response to Friendster’s policy of blocking accounts that did not use real names.
Intermix Media was founded as a successor to eUniverse, and it was under Intermix that Myspace reached its current level of popularity. Anderson became president of the company after the sale of Intermix Media and Myspace to News Corp. In 2005, News Corp paid $580 million for Myspace. Following the acquisition of News Corp, Anderson said, “Before [the acquisition], I could do whatever I wanted. It now takes longer to get people to agree on things. Every budget review and process. It can be annoying. But that’s not going to stop us. » “To M [Anderson] was responsible for the product, but ended up being a complete bottleneck in getting things done,” an unnamed News Corp executive told Reuters.
Anderson announced in late May 2012 that he would join RocketFrog Interactive as an advisor to the 16-person Los Angeles-based company, which had created a Facebook application. However, Anderson did not mention any advisory role in his life in a September 2014 interview, while his Twitter blurb in November 2018 read, “Enjoying retirement” and similarly in January 2021, “Enjoying the beautiful life / New hobby: photography”. He explained in the interview that he was not interested in returning to his previous calling, but concluded, “I would never say ‘never’ because, more than anything, I love the idea that anything can arrive. I don’t know where my life will take me. “I have always been drawn to adventure and the unknown.”
Tom Anderson’s net worth
Anderson has an estimated net worth of $60 million as of 2022.
