Tom Anderson Net Worth

What is Tom Anderson’s Net Worth?

net worth:	$60 million
age:	53
date of birth:	November 8, 1970
gender:	male
high:	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
country of origin:	USA
Source of wealth:	entrepreneur
Last updated:	February 9, 2024

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Tom Anderson’s net worth is estimated to be $60 million.

Thomas “Tom” Anderson is the American co-founder of the social networking site Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe.

Anderson was known as “Tom from Myspace” because, until 2010, he was automatically assigned as the first “friend” when a new Myspace user created a profile.

early life

Thomas Anderson was born on November 8, 1970 in Santa Monica, California.

His father is an entrepreneur. He attended San Pascual High School in Escondido, California.

During high school, he worked as a computer hacker under the pseudonym “Lord Flathead.”

He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated in 1998 with a degree in English and Rhetoric.

He then joined the band “Swank” as lead singer.

Profession

Thomas Anderson began his career as a computer hacker using the alias “Lord Flathead” and his activities attracted the attention of the FBI.

Anderson has been practicing hacking since he was 13 years old. In 1985, when he was a sophomore in college, he successfully broke into the computer system of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Once inside, he showed the others how to operate and left a message on the computer demanding free use or he would destroy the system’s records.

Eventually, the bank contacted the FBI, and police raided Anderson’s home and seized 25 computers.

Despite his involvement in one of the largest FBI raids in California history, he is free to move on with his life after serving a suspended sentence.

Although he could have become one of the world’s wealthiest criminals, Anderson never hacked for the money and instead became an entrepreneur.

Start his career

After graduating from UC Berkeley, he became the lead singer of the band Swank and moved to Taiwan.

However, he soon returned to the United States to study film at the University of California, San Diego, and then became a product tester and copywriter for XDrive.

It was at this company that he met Chris DeWolfe, and after XDrive went bankrupt, the two founded digital marketing company ResponseBase.

In 2002, they sold ResponseBase to eUniverse, and a year later, Anderson created the first few pages of Myspace.

Tom Anderson began working on MySpace in response to Friendster blocking accounts that did not use real names.

The rise and fall of Myspace

In 2004, eUniverse changed its name to Intermix Media, and under this new brand, Myspace began to gain huge popularity.

Not only does it help people connect, it’s also a place where artists like Sage the Gemini upload their early music.

A year later, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million, and by 2006, it had more visitors than Google and Yahoo.

After the acquisition, Tom Anderson became the company’s president, although most people only knew him as “Friend” Tom.

By 2008, Myspace had revenues of $800 million and helped boost the profile of other sites like Zynga and Photobucket.

Myspace peaked in 2008 with 115 million monthly visitors, but began losing ground to newly formed Facebook the following year.

In 2011, Specific Media and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for $35 million, but it was sold to Time Inc. a few years later.

Although Tom left the company in 2009, Myspace is still accessible as it was recently acquired by Meredith Corporation.

Anderson’s career after Myspace

After Myspace was acquired by News Corporation, Anderson felt lost because he could no longer do what he wanted to do.

After he was removed as president in 2009, his default friend status on the site was removed the following year and replaced with “Today On MySpace.”

In 2012, Anderson announced that he would join RocketFrog Interactive as a consultant, but by 2014, he was no longer interested in his previous career.

Instead, he decided to change his lifestyle, become a landscape photographer, and say goodbye to Myspace.

While he remains active on social media, with profiles on TikTok and Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, he has no desire to return to the professional path.

Since 2014, Anderson has traveled around the world with friends to discover and photograph new and beautiful landscapes.