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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.
2. Selling Pixels Online. Aptly named “The Million Dollar Homepage,” this website was conceptualized and launched online in 2005 by a student named Alex Tew.Tew sought to raise enough money ...
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 ...
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]
What’s more, Alex Wagner, who has hosted weeknights at 9 p.m. save for a Monday night led by Rachel Maddow, is expected to be named a contributor, according to three people with knowledge of ...
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