Dan Kurzius (born 1971/1972) is an American

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000, one billion units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultr ...

businessman, the co-founder and chief customer officer of

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Early life

Kurzius's father ran a bakery-deli in

Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), also known as ABQ, Burque, the Duke City, and in the past 'the Q', is the List of municipalities in New Mexico, most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, Bernal ...

, New Mexico that was "eventually forced out of business by big bakery chains", and he had a fatal heart attack a few years later, when Dan was 14.

Career

Kurzius started out as a DJ then worked in real estate. In 2001, Kurzius and Ben Chestnut were running a web design company and founded

, which they own jointly, as a sideline. The company has always been self-funding, and has never had any outside funding. As of March 2019, Forbes estimates Kurzius' net worth at $2.1 billion which makes him one of 13 residents from Georgia that are included in Forbes' 33rd annual ranking of the world's billionaires.

Personal life

Kurzius is married with two daughters, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He collects vintage skateboards.

References

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