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adamgries

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About adamgries

I'm a serial entrepreneur; sold three companies and built apps and games on iOS and Facebook reaching close to 100 million users. Having always been passionate about education I am now building products that help people learn on mobile devices.

Got my start co-founding an online restaurant business in college and developed skills in sales, running large distributed workforces, and building systems to collect and manage large complex data sets.

Since then I discovered I'm pretty good at creating contexts where people want to do things online. Specialties include social games, iOS games, viral mechanics, virtual currency based systems and micro transactions.

Occasionally I enjoy investing in and advising early stage startups.

I find purpose in empowering people to realize their potential, making the world more efficient and human beings better able to manipulate their environment.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #1844969

    Hey Guys, In practical terms, unless you become microsoft it probably doesn't matter which state you incorporate in tax-wise. We received advice saying that Delaware is favorable t…

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    Comment #1773789

    I think you should give people an option to get the full version of the application in return for viral actions. Some people prefer not to pay but would rave about your app to 10 p…

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    Comment #1773506

    love total finder!! It does get a bit greedy on memory though (only one window with two tabs open): http://skitch.com/adamgries/d4uc7/activity-monitor

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    Comment #1566372

    Hands down, Tel Aviv. London, Beijing, Boston, Tokyo (all places where I have been and interacted with the entrepreneurial community, at least in consumer internet) have nothing on…

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    Work on a genre-defining game for a few days starting right NOW

    We are a social media company that reaches around 35 millions users, now working on a genre-defining game that should be ready for launch in the next few days but have run into a f…

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    Comment #189364

    I come from the realm of web dev. In this realm, not knowing how to code will make sure somebody else usually has you by the balls. While an extreme micromanaging alpha type can pr…