Tom Anderson Biography
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 website’s president as well as its strategic adviser. 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 is 52 years old as of November 2022.
Tom Anderson Education
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 the ‘University of California – Los Angeles’. He earned his second degree in ‘Critical Film Studies’ in 2000.
Tom Anderson Married- Wife
Tom is believed to be currently single as there is no accessible data about 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 advertisement while still in film school and looking for extra cash. Following the failure of XDrive in 2001, he and DeWolfe co-founded the direct marketing firm 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 the successor to eUniverse, and it was under Intermix that Myspace achieved its current level of popularity. Anderson became president of the company after Intermix Media and Myspace were sold to News Corp. In 2005, News Corp paid $580 million for Myspace. Following the News Corp acquisition, 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. That can be inconvenient. But it’s not going to stop us.” “Tom [Anderson] was responsible for the product, but ended up being a complete bottleneck on getting things done,” an unnamed News Corp executive told Reuters.
Anderson announced in late May 2012 that he would be joining RocketFrog Interactive as an adviser to the 16-person Los Angeles-based company, which had created a Facebook app. However, Anderson did not mention any advisory roles in his life in a September 2014 interview, while his Twitter blurb in November 2018 read: “Enjoying being retired” and similarly in January 2021, “Enjoying the good life / New Hobby: Photography.” He explained in the interview that he is not interested in returning to his previous vocation, but concluded: “I’ll never say ‘never’ because, more than anything, I like the idea that anything can happen. I’m not sure where my life will take me. “I’ve always been drawn to adventure and the unknown.”
Tom Anderson’s Net Worth
Anderson has an estimated net worth of 60 million dollars as of 2022.