The Hollywood Reporter - 12.02.2020

The Business

Creative Space

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 40 FEBRUA RY 12, 2020

Photographed by Damon Casarez

GROOMING BY SU NAEEM AT DEW BEAUTY AGENCY

B

ack in the mid-2000s,

everyone on Myspace was

automatically friends with

co-founder Tom Anderson, but

Chris DeWolfe boasted a real-life

relationship with the internet

icon. The pair founded the social

networking platform together

and grew it into the most popular

website in the U.S., with more

than 135 million unique monthly

visitors during its heyday.

DeWolfe, 53, has a knack for

getting in on the ground floor of

booming industries. Following

the $580 million sale of the social

network to Rupert Murdoch’s

News Corp. in 2005, he and fel-

low former Myspace execs Colin

Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb

Jam City

holds its staff

meetings at this

amphitheater inside

its modern industrial

headquarters in

Culver City.

Chris DeWolfe

Jam City’s veteran co-founder and CEO weighs

in on mobile gaming competition and lessons learned

from the rise (and $580 million sale) of Myspace

By Patrick Shanley

“What I’ve always admired

about Rupert Murdoch was

his decisiveness,” says Chris

DeWolfe, who sold Myspace

to News Corp. in 2005. He

was photographed Jan. 31 at

Jam City in Culver City.

DeWolfe

bookmarks the

page in the Banksy

book that features

a piece of art

referencing Myspace,

a reminder of the

site’s reach.

bought gaming startup MindJolt

and rode the boom in the now

$109 billion digital gaming indus-

try to turn the company, since

rebranded Jam City, into one of

the world’s biggest mobile game

studios. Today, the 10-year-old

private company has 700 employ-

ees across nine studios, including

international outposts in