Andrew Weinreich
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Andrew Weinreich
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| Residence | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Nationality | United States |
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University of Pennsylvania Fordham University |
Andrew Weinreich is an American serial entrepreneur. He is a pioneer in the field of social networking and has been starting and building businesses since 1997.
Andrew Weinreich graduated cum laude with a B.A. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. He also holds a J.D. from Fordham University.
After graduating law school, Weinreich practiced law as General Counsel and served as Vice President for the Hertz Technology Group. He also worked a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co.
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. He has also served as Member of Advisory Board at Visible Path Corporation and at SNAP Interactive, Inc. since September 2012.
In 1997 , Andrew Weinreich launched SixDegrees. 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. 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. 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. At its height, SixDegrees had close to 100 employees and 3,500,000 fully registered members. The company sold to YouthStream Media Networks in 1999 for $125 million. The site closed in 2000. Weinreich later said, in reference to SixDegrees preceding the advent of widespread digital photography, "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."
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