| Website | meetmoi.com |
| @meetMoi | |
| Birthplace | New York, New York |
Andrew Weinreich is an American businessman and Internet executive in New York City��s Silicon Alley. Weinreich is the founder of sixdegrees.com, Joltage, and I Stand For. He is currently the CEO of meetMoi and the Chairman of Xtify. Weinreich spent a year as a financial analyst at Merrill Lynch before returning to school to study law at Fordham and earning a Juris Doctorate. He subsequently practiced law for two years, before leaving his position as General Counsel of the Hertz Technology Group to found sixdegrees.com – his first Internet start-up.
Since 1995, Weinreich has been a “classic trailblazing entrepreneur.” He has described the motivation behind each of his ventures as the search for a “paradigm shift” in a new industry. The idea for sixdegrees – widely acknowledged as the Internet’s first ‘social network,’ originated from Weinreich when he was first practicing law. “Long before the founders of YouTube sold out for $1.65 billion and the creators of MySpace cashed in for $580 million, there was Andrew Weinreich … . The online community for young adults began as an idea scribbled on paper.” As Weinreich described it years later: the idea behind building a social network on the Internet was motivated by making the process of “meeting people you don’t know through the people you do know” more efficient. The company was ultimately sold to YouthStream Media Networks in December 2000. Weinreich has been a mainstay of Silicon Alley since.
In July 2001, Weinreich founded Joltage, an infrastructure services business devoted to building out a global network of WiFi hotspots. Wired Magazine referred to Joltage as the “first [network for unregulated radio spectrum] to focus on mom-and-pop operators with a single base lying around the house, allowing them to become “micro-ISPs.” In December 2003, Weinreich founded I Stand For, Inc., which he sold in February 2006. I Stand For offered a complete technology solution to political campaigns, including the construction of online communities; online fundraising tools; a full content management system and a customer relationship management system.
Current work
In February 2006, Weinreich started meetMoi, “the first location-based mobile dating startup in the United States.” The company charges a monthly subscription fee appended to a user’s cellular phone bill.
In 2008, Weinreich spun off the persistent tracking technologies of meetMoi into a separate company called Xtify. Xtify is the “first platform for geo-targeted mobile messaging.”
