Andrew Paradise

Andrew Paradise
Born	1982
Nationality	US
Organization	Skillz
Title	Founder

Andrew Paradise (born April 10, 1982) is an American entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of Skillz, a company that enables cash tournaments in mobile games.

Paradise was born on April 10, 1982 in Acton, Massachusetts. He learned to program at age 7 by hacking a video game with a hex editor and later wrote his first game in Pascal. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, summa cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and his Bachelor of Commerce in Economics from University of Auckland in New Zealand.

In 2008, Paradise founded Photrade, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. While at Photrade, Paradise created patent-pending advertising technologies, forged business development partnerships with companies such as Apple, and led the eventual sale of Photrade to publicly traded, MPA, Inc.

In 2010, Paradise founded AisleBuyer, a virtual shopping assistant that lets retail customers bypass checkout lines by paying on their mobile phone. He invented a technology which allows shoppers to scan a bar code, allowing them to read product details and customer reviews and then make a purchase on the spot – either in-store by skipping the line or online by opting for home delivery. Shoppers could also browse a retailer’s entire product catalog from within the app. Paradise sold the company to Intuit, the maker of Quickbooks and GoPayment, for a reported price of up to $100 Million in April 2012.

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