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Josh Abramson is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is best known as the co-founder of CollegeHumor, a popular comedy website. He is also the co-founder of Connected Ventures, a media company that owns and operates several websites, including BustedTees and Vimeo.
Abramson was born in 1981 in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied computer science. After graduating, he moved to New York City and began working as a software engineer.
In 1999, Abramson and his college roommate, Ricky Van Veen, founded CollegeHumor. The website quickly became popular, and in 2006, Abramson and Van Veen founded Connected Ventures to manage their growing portfolio of websites.
In addition to his work with CollegeHumor and Connected Ventures, Abramson is an active investor in early-stage technology companies. He is also a board member of the New York City-based venture capital firm, FirstMark Capital.
Abramson is estimated to have a net worth of over $100 million.
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Josh Abramson Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Josh Abramson's Wife?
His wife is Gabrielle Borden Finley (m. 2010)
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Josh Abramson Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Josh Abramson worth at the age of 42 years old? Josh Abramson’s income source is mostly from being a successful Entrepreneur. He is from United States. We have estimated
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Timeline
In October 2018, TeePublic was acquired by Redbubble, a global online marketplace based in Australia, for US$41 million.
Abramson launched TeePublic in March 2013 with the aim of creating a self-sustaining community of T-shirt designers and T-shirt lovers. The T-shirt designs are submitted by artists, designers, and celebrities, and are curated through crowdsourcing.
Abramson has invested in several early-stage tech companies, including BarkBox, a subscription e-commerce and content company for dog-lovers, AmberJack, a booking platform for fishing trips, ManagedByQ, an office management platform, and Shinesty, a retro clothing company, among others. In 2013 Abramson joined venture capital firm FirstMark Capital, the New York-based firm behind major companies like Pinterest and Shopify, in a venture partner role.
Abramson resides in New York City. In April 2010, he married Gabrielle Borden Finley.
By 2005 the site was receiving 6-8 million unique visitors each month and was generating over 5 million dollars per year in advertising and T-shirt sales. In 2006 Abramson and company sold 51% of Connected Ventures, CollegeHumor's parent company, whose properties include CollegeHumor, Vimeo and BustedTees, to Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp for a reported $20 million.
Abramson and company created BustedTees in 2004 as a forum to sell T-shirts marketed on CollegeHumor. BustedTees was included in the 2006 sale of Connected Ventures to IAC/InterActiveCorp but in In 2011 Abramson bought the company back and is the current president.
Abramson and Van Veen co-founded CollegeHumor in 1999 when they were both freshmen in college, Abramson at the University of Richmond and Van Veen at Wake Forest. They began by posting silly photos of themselves as well as jokes, links, and other amusing material they collected from emails circulating among college students. Within three months the site was receiving over 600,000 visitors per month and $8,000 in monthly revenue. In under a year they received a buyout offer from an Internet company called eFront for $9 million, most of which would have been financed with stock shares. Abramson and Van Veen refused the offer and continued to grow the company themselves. In 2001 they added Jakob Lodwick, a student at Rochester Institute of Technology, and Zach Klein, a friend of Van Veen's from Wake Forest. By the time the group graduated from college the site had earned more than $100,000 and the partners still owned 100 percent of their business, which at that time was attracting 2 million viewers a month. The group moved the company to San Diego briefly before settling in New York City in 2004, where they set up shop in a 4,800 square-foot loft in TriBeCa.
Josh Abramson (born 1981) is an American entrepreneur, and co-founder of the comedy website CollegeHumor. He is one of the principal owners and founders of Connected Ventures, whose properties include Vimeo and BustedTees, and the owner and CEO of the crowdsourced T-shirt design company TeePublic.
