Alex Tew
English businessman (born 1984)
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Alex Tew (born 1984) is a British entrepreneur and the co-founder of the meditation app Calm. He is known for The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005, at the age of 21, which earned him more than $1 million in five months.[1]
Career
Tew was raised in Wiltshire, England. He began meditating when he was fourteen and he frequently read books about concentration, memory, and cognition. He attended a business management program at the University of Nottingham before dropping out in December 2005.[2]
After the success of The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005, Tew began several internet ventures including Pixelotto, which sold advertising space on websites. He founded humor-focused social network called PopJam, and a Million Dollar Homepage-inspired website site called One Million People which featured photos instead of advertisements.[2] He made a Flash game called Sock and Awe in 2008, which was a gamified version of the George W. Bush shoeing incident.[citation needed] While he was the CEO of PopJam in 2011, he and developer Ben Dowling created a site called "Do Nothing For 2 Minutes".[3]
Tew moved to San Francisco and co-founded Calm with Michael Acton Smith in 2012 and serves as CEO. The company operates a meditation app.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
