John Manoogian III

John "jm3" Manoogian III is an American Internet entrepreneur, software engineer, digital designer, public speaker, and teacher. Manoogian co-founded social technology company 140 Proof in 2009 and is recognized for practicing a "hybrid" or blended approach to design and software development. He graduated from the University of Michigan and is based in San Francisco.

John worked for Sigma6 in Detroit while studying computer science, cryptography, and linguistics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He joined Organic Inc., the original project host for the Apache server mailing list and one of the first digital marketing agencies, as an engineer in 1999. Manoogian led engineering in several offices and remained at Organic during the IPO process and until the eventual sale to Omnicom, leaving as a Director of Engineering.

In 2002, while leading an engineering team at Organic, John founded Feed Me Links, an open source link-sharing social bookmarking startup.

He moved to San Francisco, California in 2007. Soon after, he co-founded NewCru, a mobile app for location-based wine recommendations.

In July 2009, John co-founded social API company 140 Proof with Jon Elvekrog in San Francisco, originally as a business enabling Twitter developers to earn revenue with targeted ads. It was the first social ad platform based on the Interest Graph.

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