Randy Adams

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Randy Adams is a serial entrepreneur who has founded 6 venture-backed startups in the last 25 years in Silicon Valley. Adams received his undergrad degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering. Some of his accomplishments are:

• Co-founded the popular comedy video site, Will Ferrell’s funnyordie.com

• Director of Engineering for Adobe, led design team for Acrobat and PDF formats

• Secured the initial venture funding for Yahoo, Inc. from Sequoia Capital

• Served on the Yahoo Board of Directors during its first year of operation

• Originated the eBay drop off store concept, founded AuctionDrop, Inc.

• Founded the first Internet Shopping site, the Internet Shopping Network

• Designed and developed the first PC desktop publishing app, PFS First Publisher

Adams lives in Menlo Park with his wife, Nicole and their 7 children.

Milestones

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• Invested in SearchMe. (5/08)
  Posted 5/30/08 at 8:49pm
• Added position as CEO at SearchMe.
  Posted 3/11/08 at 3:29am
• Added position as Co-Founder at Funny Or Die.
  Posted 3/11/08 at 6:04am

Videos

Investments

Sources

1. More betting on visual search: SearchMe raises another $12.6M (venturebeat.com) [edit]