Biography on tom anderson myspace guy

American internet entrepreneur (born 1970)

For other people named Tom Anderson, see Tom Anderson (disambiguation).

Thomas Anderson (born November 8, 1970)^[1] is an American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the social networking website Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe.^[2] He was later president of Myspace and a strategic adviser for the company.^[3][4] Anderson is popularly known as "Tom from Myspace", "Myspace Tom", "Tom HSE" or "My friend, Tom" because he would automatically be assigned as the first "friend" of new Myspace users upon the creation of their profiles.

Early life

Anderson's father was an entrepreneur.^[5] As a teenager at San Pasqual High in Escondido, California, Anderson was a computer hacker under the pseudonym "Lord Flathead" (friends with Bill Landreth), and prompted a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raid after he hacked into a computer system Tom Anderson Biography – Facts, Childhood, Family ..., carousel JIL