Tom anderson & Chris dewolfe
Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson are Founders of MySpace.com.
The two buddies are the brains behind MySpace.com, the online networking site that has taken the world by storm.
The second venture for the pair, DeWolfe and Anderson’s first company was sold for several million dollars.
Now, MySpace.com, which allows members to create interactive profiles, blogs, and post just about anything they want, is the sixth most popular website in the world, and the third most popular in the U.S. But it was a business that almost never got started.
Myspace.com is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 to 2008, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States.
Myspace generated $800 million in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year.As of May 2014, Myspace was ranked 982 by total web traffic, and 392 in the United States. As of April 2016 the ranks were 1985 and 1747, correspondingly.
In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 employees. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timber lake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million.Under new ownership, the company had undergone several rounds of layoffs and by June 2011, Myspace had reduced its staff to around 200.
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