John Manoogian III is an
American Internet entrepreneur,
software engineer, digital designer,
public speaker, and
teacher.
Manoogian co-founded social technology company
140 Proof
140 Proof is an advertising company that uses social data from many sources in targeting relevant ads based on consumers' interests as indicated by their social activity across networks.
History
140 Proof was launched in 2009 by Jon Elvekrog and ...
in 2009 and is recognized for practicing a "hybrid" or blended approach to design and
software development
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.
He graduated from the
University of Michigan and is based in
San Francisco.
Career
John worked for Sigma6 in
Detroit while studying
computer science,
cryptography, and
linguistics at the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor
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.
He joined
Organic Inc. 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
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link-sharing
social bookmarking startup
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.
[
He moved to San Francisco, California in 2007.][ Soon after, he co-founded NewCru, a mobile app for location-based wine recommendations.]
140 Proof
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.Mashable
Mashable is a digital media platform, news website and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005.
History
Mashable was founded by Pete Cashmore while living in Aberdeen, Scotland, in July 2005. Early iterations of the site were a ...
.[ a paper proposing a new method for "categorizing social media users using sequential trial experimentation and the public interest graph".
In 2016, 140 Proof was acquired by Acuity Ads in a deal that was valued up to $20 million.]
Contributions
Manoogian is the creator and teacher of the "Design Hacks" course at startup educational campus General Assembly,open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
projects like Racket, Rails Admin, and SABnzbd.
References
External links
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Living people
Businesspeople from Michigan
University of Michigan alumni
1977 births
Software developer communities