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Mike Jones

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Michael Jones is the President of MySpace. He is the former CEO of Userplane and former Senior Vice President of AOL. He brought Userplane from a startup services business to an applications provider and an AOL subsidiary.

At AOL, Jones a Senior Vice President and manages Userplane within the Products division. He coordinates with other AOL subsidiaries and internal brands to enable distribution of Web applications to publishers under the Userplane brand.

After leaving AOL Jones started Tsavo, a web media company that launched with a rumored $20m in financial backing. His time as Tsavo’s CEO was short as MySpace’s new CEO made Jones his first hire in 2009, making him COO. In February of 2010, Owen VanNatta stepped down as CEO and Newscorp promoted Jones to co-President.

Jones opened his first Web consulting business during his junior year of college, and eventually migrated his practice into PBJ Digital, a 40-person firm that served an estimated 200 companies, including Sony and UPN. After selling PBJ Digital, Jones and his partners, Nate Thelen, Kevin Prentiss, and Javier Hall, formed Userplane.

Jones has a Bachelor of Arts in International Business and Marketing from the University of Oregon and was named the Universities Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 1997.

Milestones

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  Mike Jones added a position as Partner at Science.
  Posted 1/12/12 at 6:03am
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  Mike Jones added a position as Board Member at Bedrock.
  Posted 6/3/11 at 10:46am
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  Mike Jones added a position as Advisor at Dealmaker Media.
  Posted 6/3/11 at 10:46am
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  Mike Jones added a position as CEO at Tsavo Agency.
  Posted 6/3/11 at 10:46am
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  Mike Jones added a position as Advisor at CPUsage. (1/1/10)
  Posted 5/6/11 at 11:48am
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  Mike Jones added a position as CEO at MySpace. (10/1/10)
  Posted 12/8/10 at 4:50pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Board member at MoVoxx.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 6:15pm
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  Mike Jones added to Mobile Roadie.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 12:47pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Angel Investor at Affordit.com.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 12:47pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Angel Investor at brizzly.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 12:47pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Angel Investor at Ad.ly.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 12:47pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Angel Investor at Dogster.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 12:47pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Angel Investor at Goodreads.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 12:47pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Board member at MoVoxx.
  Posted 2/22/10 at 12:47pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Board Member at GumGum.
  Posted 1/3/10 at 10:55pm
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  Mike Jones added a position as Co-President at MySpace. (4/27/09)
  Posted 7/22/09 at 9:33am

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1. Gobbler Grabs $1.75 Million To Help Musicians Keep Track Of Their Files (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Mobile Game Monetization Platform Lunch Money Raises $1M From Google Ventures; Rebrands As Pocket Change (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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4. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]