COFOUNDER | EXECUTIVE VP of PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

In September 1996 Dan Pelson & I founded Bolt, a social networking (back then it was called "community") site for over 7 million 15-24 year old members. I left in 2002 but it still existed until 14 August 2007, although in my opinion, as a shadow of its former self in the last few years as the new owner ran it into the ground. Anyway, we had an unbelievably talented, intense, creative and seriously fun staff, and were just a bit ahead of our time. We had our members creating all the content on the site, making videos of themselves, and even designing and voting on t-shirts that we would produce all the way back in 1999.