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'''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|website=[[YouTube]] |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 | date=22 May 2023 | publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
'''Andrew Weinreich''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|w|aɪ|n|r|ɪ|tʃ}} {{Respell|WYNE|ritch}}) is an American businessman.


==Education & career==
==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>


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


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"/>
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>


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>
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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>


==Entrepreneurship==
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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>
===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|website=[[The 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 | author-link=Julia Angwin | 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]| isbn=9781400066940 }}</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 magazine | 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 | magazine=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===
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>

===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 | website=[[Business Insider]] | 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>
===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>

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 [[A language is a dialect with an army and navy|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==

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Andrew Weinreich
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Fordham University

Andrew Weinreich (/ˈwaɪnrɪtʃ/ WYNE-ritch[1]) is an American serial entrepreneur. He is a pioneer in the field of social networking and has been starting and building businesses since 1997.[2][3]

Education & career

Weinreich graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He also holds a J.D. from Fordham University.[citation needed]

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 & Co.[3]

Weinreich has served as Chairman of Xtify, Founder and Chairman of MeetMoi LLC, Director of AskIt Systems, Director of Drop.io, Inc., Chairman of Board of Organic Network Inc., and Director of Organic Network Inc.[3] He has also served as Member of Advisory Board at Visible Path Corporation[3] and at SNAP Interactive, Inc. since September 2012.[4]

Entrepreneurship

SixDegrees

In 1997, Weinreich launched SixDegrees.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8][6] At its height, SixDegrees had close to 100 employees and 3,500,000 fully registered members.[9] The company was sold to YouthStream Media Networks in 1999 for $125 million.[10] The site was closed in 2000.[11] Weinreich later said, in reference to SixDegrees preceding the advent of widespread digital photography,[9] "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."[10]

Joltage

In 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of Wi-Fi hotspots.[12] The company was considered "slightly ahead of its time",[13] hoping to "spread Wi-Fi's footprint one base at a time to neighborhoods, office parks and campuses."[14] Joltage was forced to shut down in 2003 when the company ran out of funding.[15]

I Stand For

In 2003, Weinreich started I Stand For, Inc., a technology solution to transfer political fundraising online with content management and community solutions.[16] 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.”[17] He sold the company in February 2006.[18]

MeetMoi

In February 2006, Weinreich co-founded MeetMoi with Jeremy Levy. MeetMoi offers “the first location-based mobile dating service,”[19] combining Xtify's persistent location discovery and push notification technology.[20][18] The site currently has over 3 million users.[20] 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.”[21]

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."[18] Xtify was acquired by IBM on October 3, 2013.[22]

The ‘Location-based services platform' patent,[23] invented by Weinreich et al., is a platform providing location-based services and location data to third-party service providers, currently utilized by Xtify.[24][25]

References

  1. ^ "What I've Learned After 5 Exits | Andrew Weinreich, Serial Entreprenuer [sic], Andrew's Roadmaps". YouTube. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  2. ^ Rose, David. "What are the best examples of good tech companies that were destroyed after being acquired?".
  3. ^ a b c d "Andrew Weinreich Executive Profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. 22 May 2023.[dead link‍]
  4. ^ "SNAP Interactive Appoints Jerry King and Andrew Weinreich to Advisory Board". Citybizlist. Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  5. ^ Goble, Gordon (2012-09-06). "The History of Social Networking".
  6. ^ a b "TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA: PATENTS; Idea for Online Networking Brings Two Entrepreneurs Together - New York Times". The New York Times. 2010-11-02. Archived from the original on 2010-11-02. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  7. ^ Barker, Melissa (2012). "10". Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach (1st ed.). Cengage Learning.
  8. ^ US patent 6175831, Andrew P. Weinreich, "Method and apparatus for constructing a networking database and system", published 2001-01-16, issued 2001-01-16 
  9. ^ a b Kirkpatrick, David (2011). The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. Simon & Schuster.
  10. ^ a b Angwin, Julia (2009). Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America. Random House. p. 52. ISBN 9781400066940.
  11. ^ Barker, Melissa (2012). "10". Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Approach (1st ed.). Cengage Learning.
  12. ^ Metz, Cade (April 8, 2002). "Would You Like Wireless Access with That?". PC Magazine.
  13. ^ Surden, Esther (28 February 2012). "Web entrepreneur: 'If people don't think you are crazy, you are probably not thinking big enough'". Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  14. ^ Boutin, Paul (28 March 2002). "Why Dial Up If You Can Wi-Fi?". Wired.
  15. ^ Shim, Richard (28 February 2003). "Start-up Joltage unplugs Wi-Fi service".
  16. ^ "Andrew Weinreich". TEDx Wall Street.
  17. ^ "Weinreich Launches Political ASP". theWHIR.com.
  18. ^ a b c Boyd Myers, Courtney (July 11, 2011). "Where are they now? New York City's Dot Com Entrepreneurs".
  19. ^ Maykowski, Alexander (2013-09-26). "25 New York Internet Pioneers – Then and Now". Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2013-09-26.
  20. ^ a b Smith, Kevin (24 October 2012). "Check Out MeetMoi, The Dating App That Has Quietly Reached 3 Million Users". Business Insider.
  21. ^ Tsotsis, Alexia (3 August 2010). "Push Notifications Meet Dating: meetMoi NOW Alerts You When Matches Are Nearby".
  22. ^ Jackson, Joab (3 October 2013). "IBM buys e-commerce tool maker Xtify". Computerworld.
  23. ^ US patent US8447332, Andrew P. Weinreich, "Location-based services platform", published 2013-05-21, issued 2001-01-16 
  24. ^ "Patent Issued for Location-Based Services Platform". Telecommunications Weekly. 5 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013.
  25. ^ "U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New York". 23 May 2013.
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