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| birth_date = 1972 or 1973
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'''Andrew Weinreich''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|aɪ|n|r|ɪ|tʃ}} {{Respell|WYNE|ritch}}) is an American businessman.
'''Andrew Weinreich''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|aɪ|n|r|ɪ|tʃ}} {{Respell|WYNE|ritch}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_hEKtpgDgw|title=What I've Learned After 5 Exits &#124; Andrew Weinreich, Serial Entreprenuer [''sic''], Andrew's Roadmaps|access-date=4 June 2020}}</ref>) is an American serial entrepreneur. He is a pioneer in the field of [[Social networking service|social networking]] and has been starting and building businesses since 1997.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-examples-of-good-tech-companies-that-were-destroyed-after-being-acquired|title=What are the best examples of good tech companies that were destroyed after being acquired?|first1=David|last1=Rose}}</ref><ref name="BusinesweekProfile">{{cite web | url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=2144277 | title=Andrew Weinreich Executive Profile | publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek}}</ref>

==Education & career==

Weinreich graduated with from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1990. He also holds a J.D. from [[Fordham University]].{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

After graduating from law school, Weinreich practiced law as General Counsel and served as Vice President for the Hertz Technology Group. He had also worked as a financial analyst at [[Merrill Lynch|Merrill Lynch & Co.]]<ref name="BusinesweekProfile"/>

Weinreich has served as Chairman of Xtify, Founder and Chairman of MeetMoi LLC, Director of AskIt Systems, Director of [[Drop.io|Drop.io, Inc.]], Chairman of Board of Organic Network Inc., and Director of Organic Network Inc.<ref name="BusinesweekProfile"/> He has also served as Member of Advisory Board at Visible Path Corporation<ref name="BusinesweekProfile"/> and at SNAP Interactive, Inc. since September 2012.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://newyork.citybizlist.com/article/snap-interactive-appoints-jerry-king-and-andrew-weinreich-advisory-board | title=SNAP Interactive Appoints Jerry King and Andrew Weinreich to Advisory Board | publisher=Citybizlist | access-date=2013-10-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022172858/http://newyork.citybizlist.com/article/snap-interactive-appoints-jerry-king-and-andrew-weinreich-advisory-board | archive-date=2013-10-22 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Entrepreneurship==
===SixDegrees===
In 1997, Weinreich launched [[SixDegrees.com|SixDegrees]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-social-networking/ | title=The History of Social Networking | first=Gordon | last=Goble | date=2012-09-06}}</ref> The online company was the first of its kind to allow users to identify relationships with people they know and then query for people they didn’t know through established connections, based upon the [[Six degrees of separation]] theory by [[Stanley Milgram]].<ref name="twoEntrepreneurs">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/technology/technology-media-patents-idea-for-online-networking-brings-two-entrepreneurs.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101102235354/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/technology/technology-media-patents-idea-for-online-networking-brings-two-entrepreneurs.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-11-02|title=TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA: PATENTS; Idea for Online Networking Brings Two Entrepreneurs Together - New York Times|date=2010-11-02|access-date=2018-07-22}}</ref> Though other services existed with similar features, SixDegrees was the first social media network to allow users to create a profile, show their friends list, and search through their friends list.<ref>{{cite book | last=Barker | first=Melissa | title=Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach | edition=1st | publisher=Cengage Learning | year=2012 | chapter=10 }}</ref> Weinreich authored the first patent on social networking, “Method and apparatus for constructing a networking database and system,” commonly known as the [[Six Degrees patent]], which secured the social media network's software code.<ref>{{ cite patent| country = US | number = 6175831 | status = patent | title = Method and apparatus for constructing a networking database and system | pubdate = 2001-01-16 | gdate = 2001-01-16 | fdate = 1997-01-17 | pridate = 1997-01-17 | inventor = Andrew P. Weinreich | url = https://www.google.com/patents/US6175831}}</ref><ref name="twoEntrepreneurs"/> At its height, SixDegrees had close to 100 employees and 3,500,000 fully registered members.<ref name="Kirkpatrick 2011">{{cite book | last=Kirkpatrick | first=David | title=The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World | publisher=Simon & Schuster | year=2011}}</ref> The company was sold to YouthStream Media Networks in 1999 for $125 million.<ref name="Angwin 2009 https://archive.org/details/stealingmyspaceb00angw_332/page/n148 52">{{cite book | last=Angwin | first=Julia | title=Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America | url=https://archive.org/details/stealingmyspaceb00angw_332 | url-access=limited | publisher=Random House | year=2009 | page=[https://archive.org/details/stealingmyspaceb00angw_332/page/n148 52]}}</ref> The site was closed in 2000.<ref>{{cite book | last=Barker | first=Melissa | title=Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach | edition=1st | publisher=Cengage Learning | year=2012 | chapter=10}}</ref> Weinreich later said, in reference to SixDegrees preceding the advent of widespread digital photography,<ref name="Kirkpatrick 2011"/> "We had board meetings where we would discuss how to get people to send in their pictures and scan them in. The real difference in 2002 was that by then people had digital cameras."<ref name="Angwin 2009 https://archive.org/details/stealingmyspaceb00angw_332/page/n148 52"/>

===Joltage===
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In 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of [[Wi-Fi hotspot]]s.<ref>{{cite news | first1=Cade | last1=Metz |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,5295,00.asp |title=Would You Like Wireless Access with That? | date=April 8, 2002 | work=PC Magazine}}</ref> The company was considered "slightly ahead of its time",<ref name="newsle">{{cite web | url=http://newsle.com/article/0/12418862/ | last=Surden | first=Esther | title=Web entrepreneur: 'If people don't think you are crazy, you are probably not thinking big enough' | date=28 February 2012 | access-date=2013-10-21 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022003831/http://newsle.com/article/0/12418862/ | archive-date=2013-10-22 | url-status=dead }}</ref> hoping to "spread Wi-Fi's footprint one base at a time to neighborhoods, office parks and campuses."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/news/2002/03/51353?currentPage=all | last=Boutin | first=Paul | title=Why Dial Up If You Can Wi-Fi? | date=28 March 2002 | work=Wired}}</ref> Joltage was forced to shut down in 2003 when the company ran out of funding.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039-990671.html | last=Shim | first=Richard | title=Start-up Joltage unplugs Wi-Fi service | date=28 February 2003 }}</ref>


===I Stand For===
==Career==
In 1997, Weinreich launched [[SixDegrees.com|SixDegrees]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/the-history-of-social-networking/ | title=The History of Social Networking | first=Gordon | last=Goble | date=2012-09-06}}</ref>
In 2003, Weinreich started [[I Stand For, Inc.]], a technology solution to transfer political fundraising online with content management and community solutions.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://tedxwallstreet.com/andrew-weinreich/ | title=Andrew Weinreich | publisher=TEDx Wall Street }}</ref> He said about the venture: "My vision five years ago was to revolutionize social networking (...) Now, it’s to revolutionize building member and constituent bases for political campaigns, not-for-profit organizations and other member-based businesses.”<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/weinreich-launches-political-asp | title=Weinreich Launches Political ASP | publisher=theWHIR.com }}</ref> He sold the company in February 2006.<ref name="nextweb">{{cite web | first1=Courtney | last1=Boyd Myers |url=https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/07/30/where-are-they-now-new-york-citys-dot-com-entrepreneurs-part-one/5/ |title=Where are they now? New York City's Dot Com Entrepreneurs | date=July 11, 2011}}</ref>


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In 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of [[Wi-Fi hotspot]]s.<ref>{{cite news | first1=Cade | last1=Metz |url=https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,5295,00.asp |title=Would You Like Wireless Access with That? | date=April 8, 2002 | work=PC Magazine}}</ref> Joltage was forced to shut down in 2003 when the company ran out of funding.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039-990671.html | last=Shim | first=Richard | title=Start-up Joltage unplugs Wi-Fi service | date=28 February 2003 }}</ref>
===MeetMoi===
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In February 2006, Weinreich co-founded [[MeetMoi]] with Jeremy Levy. MeetMoi offers “the first location-based mobile dating service,”<ref>{{cite web | title=25 New York Internet Pioneers – Then and Now | date=2013-09-26 | first1=Alexander | last1=Maykowski | url=http://www.alleywatch.com/2013/09/25-new-york-internet-pioneers-then-and-now/ | access-date=2013-09-26 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926233942/http://www.alleywatch.com/2013/09/25-new-york-internet-pioneers-then-and-now/ | archive-date=2013-09-26 }}</ref> combining Xtify's persistent location discovery and push notification technology.<ref name="CheckoutMeetMoi">{{cite web | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/meetmoi-location-based-dating-2012-10 | last=Smith | first=Kevin | title=Check Out MeetMoi, The Dating App That Has Quietly Reached 3 Million Users | date=24 October 2012}}</ref><ref name="nextweb"/> The site currently has over 3 million users.<ref name="CheckoutMeetMoi"/> When asked about MeetMoi's push-notification based platform, Weinreich responded, “There is intelligence in the cloud and it should follow you wherever you want to be followed.”<ref>{{cite web | url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/03/push-notifications-meet-dating-meetmoi-now-alerts-you-when-matches-are-nearby/ | last=Tsotsis | first=Alexia | title=Push Notifications Meet Dating: meetMoi NOW Alerts You When Matches Are Nearby | date=3 August 2010 }}</ref>


In 2003, Weinreich started I Stand For, Inc. He sold the company in February 2006.<ref name="nextweb">{{cite web | first1=Courtney | last1=Boyd Myers |url=https://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/07/30/where-are-they-now-new-york-citys-dot-com-entrepreneurs-part-one/5/ |title=Where are they now? New York City's Dot Com Entrepreneurs | date=July 11, 2011}}</ref>


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In February 2006, Weinreich co-founded [[MeetMoi]] with Jeremy Levy.<ref name="CheckoutMeetMoi">{{cite web | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/meetmoi-location-based-dating-2012-10 | last=Smith | first=Kevin | title=Check Out MeetMoi, The Dating App That Has Quietly Reached 3 Million Users | website=[[Business Insider]] | date=24 October 2012}}</ref><ref name="nextweb"/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/03/push-notifications-meet-dating-meetmoi-now-alerts-you-when-matches-are-nearby/ | last=Tsotsis | first=Alexia | title=Push Notifications Meet Dating: meetMoi NOW Alerts You When Matches Are Nearby | date=3 August 2010 }}</ref>
===Xtify===
In 2008, Weinreich and Jeremy Levy spun off the persistent tracking technologies of MeetMoi into a separate company called [[Xtify]]. Xtify was "the first geo-notification API that powers 'persistent location,' allowing a user’s location to be extracted from a mobile device on a periodic and continuous basis."<ref name="nextweb"/> Xtify was acquired by IBM on October 3, 2013.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Joab |title=IBM buys e-commerce tool maker Xtify |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2485573/ibm-buys-e-commerce-tool-maker-xtify.html |work=Computerworld |date=3 October 2013 |language=en}}</ref>


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In 2008, Weinreich and Jeremy Levy spun off the persistent tracking technologies of MeetMoi into a separate company called [[Xtify]].<ref name="nextweb"/> Xtify was acquired by [[IBM]] on October 3, 2013.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Joab |title=IBM buys e-commerce tool maker Xtify |url=https://www.computerworld.com/article/2485573/ibm-buys-e-commerce-tool-maker-xtify.html |work=Computerworld |date=3 October 2013 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-333536285.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105225450/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-333536285.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 November 2013 | title=Patent Issued for Location-Based Services Platform | publisher=Telecommunications Weekly | date= 5 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2013/05/23/7157678.htm | title=U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York | date= 23 May 2013}}</ref>
The ‘Location-based services platform' patent,<ref>{{ cite patent
| country = US
| number = US8447332
| status = patent
| title = Location-based services platform
| pubdate = 2013-05-21
| gdate = 2001-01-16
| fdate = 2009-05-01
| pridate = 2008-05-02
| inventor = Andrew P. Weinreich
| url = https://www.google.com/patents/US8447332
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}}</ref> invented by Weinreich ''et al.'', is a platform providing location-based services and location data to third-party service providers, currently utilized by Xtify.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-333536285.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105225450/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-333536285.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=5 November 2013 | title=Patent Issued for Location-Based Services Platform | publisher=Telecommunications Weekly | date= 5 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2013/05/23/7157678.htm | title=U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York | date= 23 May 2013}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 19:15, 9 January 2025

Andrew Weinreich
Born1972 or 1973
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Fordham University

Andrew Weinreich (/ˈwaɪnrɪtʃ/ WYNE-ritch) is an American businessman.

Career

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In 1997, Weinreich launched SixDegrees.[1]

In 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots.[2] Joltage was forced to shut down in 2003 when the company ran out of funding.[3]

In 2003, Weinreich started I Stand For, Inc. He sold the company in February 2006.[4]

In February 2006, Weinreich co-founded MeetMoi with Jeremy Levy.[5][4][6]

In 2008, Weinreich and Jeremy Levy spun off the persistent tracking technologies of MeetMoi into a separate company called Xtify.[4] Xtify was acquired by IBM on October 3, 2013.[7][8][9]

References

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  1. ^ Goble, Gordon (2012-09-06). "The History of Social Networking".
  2. ^ Metz, Cade (April 8, 2002). "Would You Like Wireless Access with That?". PC Magazine.
  3. ^ Shim, Richard (28 February 2003). "Start-up Joltage unplugs Wi-Fi service".
  4. ^ a b c Boyd Myers, Courtney (July 11, 2011). "Where are they now? New York City's Dot Com Entrepreneurs".
  5. ^ Smith, Kevin (24 October 2012). "Check Out MeetMoi, The Dating App That Has Quietly Reached 3 Million Users". Business Insider.
  6. ^ Tsotsis, Alexia (3 August 2010). "Push Notifications Meet Dating: meetMoi NOW Alerts You When Matches Are Nearby".
  7. ^ Jackson, Joab (3 October 2013). "IBM buys e-commerce tool maker Xtify". Computerworld.
  8. ^ "Patent Issued for Location-Based Services Platform". Telecommunications Weekly. 5 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013.
  9. ^ "U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York". 23 May 2013.
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