Mark Jeffrey

Mark Jeffrey is a serial entrepreneur and author. He has co-founded three internet companies and written two novels. Most recently, Jeffrey co-founded business social networking company ZeroDegrees, Inc. and sold it to IAC/InteractiveCorp in 2004 with more than one million registered users. His podcast novel “Max Quick Book One: The Pocket and the Pendant” has received over 1.7 million downloads to date.

His first company, The Palace, Inc., was backed by Time Warner, Intel and Softbank and sold to Communities.com in 1998. The Palace was a popular avatar virtual world environment that grew to 10 million users at its peak. It was was selected ‘The Best of 1996′ by Entertainment Weekly received numerous awards and coverage including a Webby Award nomination; “Cool Innovation of the Year” nominee; Chicago SUN-Times` Best Website: 1998. Palace servers were run by brand marketers including Comedy Central (South Park), Ralph Lauren, Artisan Entertainment (Blair Witch), Capitol Records, Absolut Vodka, Wired, Playboy, Egghead Software, CBS, and numerous others.

He also was the co-founder and CEO of SuperSig, Inc. in 1999, an html email company with customers including Williams-Sonoma, ITXC (a VoIP company), and Yahoo / Launch Media.

Mark has been named on of ‘50 to Watch’ by Variety Magazine, selected as one of the “Digital Coast 50′ by the Silicon Alley Reporter, and one of the “Heroes of Multimedia” by Entertainment Weekly and presented as a featured speaker at the first Harvard University Conference on the Internet and Society in 1996.

Mark is currently CTO of Mahalo.com, Inc., a new human-powered search engine backed by Sequoia, CBS, Newscorp, Elon Musk and others.