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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.
The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education.The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks.
Calm was founded on May 4, 2012, by Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew. [7] Tamara Levitt became the Head of Mindfulness in November 2014 and is one of the app's primary narrators. [8] The company generated $22 million in revenue in 2017 and reached an annual revenue run rate of $75 million. [9] As of 2017, Calm had raised $1.5M in angel investments.
Sock and Awe is a minimalist 2008 Flash game created by British entrepreneur Alex Tew, recreating the Bush shoeing incident and putting the player in control of journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi who flung a shoe at George W. Bush during a news conference. Although the game was hastily put together, it went viral and received widespread news coverage ...
Alex Tew (born 1984), British Internet self-promoter; George Washington Tew (1829–1884), American Union army officer and brevet brigadier general; Gloria Tew (1923–2022), American abstract artist; Henry Tew (1654–1718), colonial Deputy Governor of Rhode Island; Mary Tew (1921–2007), British anthropologist Mary Douglas
In late 2012 Acton Smith co-founded Calm.com, along with Alex Tew. [17] In 2013 the company announced a $450,000 funding round from a group of Angel investors. [18] By 2015, Calm had reached 2 million downloads worldwide and, after winning a British competition, launched the world's first "slow TV Ad". [19]
In 2014, Levitt reached out via e-mail with a résumé to Calm's co-founders, Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith. [5] She has held the title of Head of Mindfulness at the app since November 2014 [5] [11] and has undisclosed equity in the company. [8] [5] As the Head of Mindfulness, Levitt leads the creative development of content on Calm.
The Internet has played a large part in the popularity of modern beatboxing. Alex Tew (aka A-Plus) started the first online community of beatboxers in 2000 under the banner of HUMANBEATBOX.COM. An early example of modern beatboxing was seen in the 2001 South Korean romantic comedy film My Sassy Girl. In 2001, Gavin Tyte, a member of this ...