John Manoogian III

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John Manoogian III is an American Internet entrepreneur, software engineer, digital designer, public speaker, and teacher. [1] Manoogian co-founded the social technology company 140 Proof in 2009 and is recognized for practicing a "hybrid" or blended approach to design and software development. [2] [3] He graduated from the University of Michigan and is based in San Francisco.

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Career

John worked for Sigma6 in Detroit while studying computer science, cryptography, and linguistics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. [4] He joined Organic Inc. in 1999.[ citation needed ] 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 link-sharing social bookmarking startup. [4]

He moved to San Francisco, California in 2007. [4] Soon after, he co-founded NewCru, a mobile app for location-based wine recommendations. [5]

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. [2] [6] [7] It was the first social ad platform based on the Interest Graph. [8] [9]

140 Proof was able to secure funding from Founders Fund and BlueRun Ventures. As CTO, Manoogian led API and product development. [9] [10] He has written about the evolution of social technology for TechCrunch, MediaPost, and Mashable. [11] [12] In 2012, he and Kumar Dandapani co-published "A Relevance Engine from the Interest Graph", [13] 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. [14]

Contributions

Manoogian is the creator and teacher of the "Design Hacks" course at startup educational campus General Assembly, [15] and, along with Twitter CEO and fellow University of Michigan alumnus Dick Costolo, has lectured about startup pivots at the University of Michigan's Center for Entrepreneurship. [4] [16]

Manoogian is actively involved in the technology and design communities in San Francisco, serving as a technical adviser to startups Hud.dl, Hashgr.am, and Zivity, [17] [18] and as a contributor to open-source projects like Racket, Rails Admin, and SABnzbd. [19] [20] He is the founding organizer of SF NURDS, [21] San Francisco's first 3D rendering and modeling community.

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