Jon Radoff

Jon Radoff
Jon Radoff at Gamescom Congress 2024
Born
United States
Alma materHarvard University
Occupation(s)CEO, Beamable Inc.

Jon Radoff is an American entrepreneur, author and game designer. His work has focused on online communities, Internet media and computer games. He is CEO and co-founder of Beamable, a Live Game services platform that enables the creation of online games based on Unity.

Radoff began his career when he dropped out of college to found NovaLink, an early internet service provider.[1] In 1991, while at NovaLink, he created Legends of Future Past, one of the first commercial MMORPGs.[1]

In 1997, he founded Eprise Corporation, a creator of Web content management software.[2][3] Eprise went public on the NASDAQ stock market in 2000[4] and was acquired by Divine Inc. in 2001.[5]

On September 21, 2006, Radoff founded GamerDNA, a social media company that developed social gaming communities and a videogame advertising network.[6] GamerDNA is now part of Live Gamer.

In March 2010, Radoff started a new social game company called Disruptor Beam that built games for Facebook.[7][8] In February 2013, the company released Game of Thrones Ascent.[9] The company ultimately sold its games to other publishers, underwent a reorganization, and relaunched as Beamable.[10]

  1. ^ a b Online Company SparkForge Formed, Coins 'MSOGs', GamaSutra, September 22, 2006
  2. ^ Ed Scannell, InfoWorld, February 11, 2000, "Eprise CTO guides businesses through Web maze," "Eprise CTO guides businesses through Web maze". Archived from the original on 2008-09-19. Retrieved 2006-12-31.
  3. ^ Jan Stafford, VARBusiness, May 23, 2000, "Eprise CTO Jon Radoff: Content Rules," http://qa.varbusiness.com/article/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EWVN4KK5M2VEKQSNDLUCKHA?articleId=18809992[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Eprise Expected To Rocket On Offering, Forbes, March 22, 2000
  5. ^ http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=77801 Divine closes acquisition of Eprise Corporation, Divine Inc. press release, December 5, 2001
  6. ^ GamerDNA company website[permanent dead link‍]
  7. ^ Rodney Brown, Mass High Tech, Radoff surfaces at Facebook game maker Disruptor Beam Archived 2010-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Scott Kirsner, Boston.com, Vidgame couple build new venture around 'social gaming' trend
  9. ^ John Gaudiosi (22 February 2012). "Jon Radoff Explains How Game Of Thrones Ascent Opens Westeros To Facebook Fans". Forbes. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  10. ^ Dean Takahashi (23 February 2021). "Beamable raises $5 million for Unity-based live game services platform". VentureBeat. Retrieved 1 March 2021.