Gerard Adams

Gerard Adams
Millennial Mentor Gerard Adams
Born	(1984-12-20) December 20, 1984 (age 32) Livingston, New Jersey, United States
Other names	“Entrepreneur’s entrepreneur”, Millennial Mentor
Citizenship	United States
Occupation	Businessman, entrepreneur
Employer	Elite Daily, FOWNDERS
Known for	Co-founder, Elite Daily, FOWNDERS startup accelerator
Website	Gerard Adams Official Website

Gerard Adams (born December 20, 1984) is an American serial entrepreneur, millennial branding expert, philanthropist, TEDx speaker and business executive. Adams is best known as co-founder of Elite Daily (known as the “voice of Generation Y”), which sold to the Daily Mail in 2015 for $50 million. He is also a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine.

Adams was born in New Jersey in 1984, and grew up in Belleville, New Jersey. His father worked at Prudential Financial and his mother at A&P. In an interview with BeYou, Adams said he was born with a “natural hustle mentality.”

He graduated from Belleville High School and became interested in the stock market at the urging of his father, who asked him to look up Prudential stock. He spent one semester at Caldwell University before he dropped out to work for an investor relations firm.

In the 2000s, Adams was inspired by online forums on Raging Bull and Silicon Investor, which he said had contributors who lacked credibility, and added a ratings system to his own forum to found StockSpot. The website included a 5-star ratings feature to evaluate writer contributions. Adams claimed he grew StockSpot to $10 million in revenue before the 2008 stock market crash. He founded several other finance-related companies, including an online investor-relations and financial-marketing company, and the National Inflation Association, which educates consumers on how to survive in any economic environment.

In an interview with journalist Farnoosh Torabi, Adams said that he took a position in investor relations at nanobatteries firm mPhase to build an 18,000-investor audience. Adams pitched the idea to mPhase executives of a real-time demonstration of the mPhase nanobattery. However, in front of an audience of hundreds of investors the technology failed to operate, leading to what Adams has called his “first failure.”