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Dec 1, 2023 · The current CEO of Chess.com is Erik Allebest, who co-founded the company with Jay Severson in 2005. Jay and Erik were college friends who later reconnected and decided to turn their love of chess into a website where they as chess players could feel at home.
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In 2005, Internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom "Jay" Severson, who met as undergraduate students at Brigham Young University, bought the domain name and assembled a team of software developers, redeveloping the site as a chess portal.
Jan 6, 2024 · We can say that Erik Allebest is somewhat of a Mark Zuckerberg of the chess world: in the mid-2000s, Eric, a student, bought the domain http://chess.com, which today has become the largest and...
Nov 29, 2021 · Chess.com CEO Erik Allebest talks about his journey from a student entrepreneur teaching chess as an after school activity to over $500M revenue.
Jun 21, 2023 · Chess.com, the world’s leading chess platform, has been named in TIME’s prestigious 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023 list. The site, founded in 2005 by college friends Erik Allebest and Jay Severson, is part of an impressive list, which you can find here.
With over 1 million games played every day, Chess.com is the leading online chess platform and mobile app. CEO Erik Allebest shares his journey building a #d...
Apr 30, 2016 · Getting to Know CEO Erik Allebest. Naturally, with this being a Chess site and our hosts being chess players, whether a host is a novice or pro, members are interested in hearing their chess-related answers to chess-related questions.
Erik Allebest, CEO of Chess.com, on the story of how we got the domain and why chess online started! Erik has disrupted the world of Chess forever. He started by making the company's logo a Pawn,...
Aug 23, 2021 · How Chess.com scaled a massive community. Nobody thought the old game of chess could turn into a real business in a world with internet. Frankly, there was a time when Erik Allebest, Chess.com’s founder, didn’t think it would and even tried turning his attention to a bigger, sexier market.
