Jon Radoff | |
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![]() Jon Radoff at Gamescom Congress 2024 | |
Born | United States |
Alma mater | Harvard 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]