Tom Anderson

Early Life and Education

- Born on November 8, 1970, in San Diego, California.

- Attended San Pasqual High School in Escondido, California.

- As a teenager, he was known as Lord Flathead and was a computer hacker. He was even the subject of an FBI raid after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system.

- Attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in English and rhetoric.

- Became the lead singer of a band called Swank.

- Moved to Taiwan after graduating from UC Berkeley.

- Returned to the United States to study film at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Career

- In 2000, while still attending UCLA, Anderson became a product tester and copywriter at XDrive, a digital storage company.

- When XDrive went bankrupt in 2001, he co-founded the direct marketing company ResponseBase with Chris DeWolfe.

- In late 2002, ResponseBase was sold to eUniverse later Intermix Media.

- In August 2003, Anderson, DeWolfe, and other eUniverse employees launched Myspace.

- Anderson served as president of Myspace and played a key role in its growth.

- In 2005, Myspace was sold to News Corp for $580 million.

- Anderson remained president of Myspace until April 2009.

- In 2012, Anderson became an advisor to RocketFrog Interactive, a company that created Facebook apps.

Myspace

- Co-founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe.

- Anderson's inspiration for Myspace was partly a reaction to Friendster and its policy of blocking accounts that did not use real names.

- Anderson, known as Tom from Myspace, Myspace Tom, Tom HSE or My friend, Tom, was automatically assigned as the first friend of new Myspace users.

- By 2010, Anderson was no longer the default friend on Myspace. He was replaced by a profile called Today On MySpace, or T. O. M..

Post-Myspace

- Anderson is an active travel photographer, sharing his work on social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter.

- He resides in Oahu, Hawaii.

- His estimated net worth is $60 million.

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