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Adam Gries

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Vitalist | Founder @ Vitalism.io | Co-Founder Vitalism Society | Managing Member @ House Authentic
United States

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  • V
    Founder
    Vitalism
    Jan 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)
    The revolutionary movement to solve biological aging and death.
  • JOOR
    Chief Product Officer
    JOOR
    Jan 2022 - May 2022 (5 months)
  • Harvard Innovation Labs
    Mentor
    Harvard Innovation Labs
    Aug 2021 - Jan 2025 (3 years 6 months)
    Helping entrepreneurs from the very early stages.
  • H
    Managing Member
    House Authentic
    Jan 2021 - Current (5 years 4 months)
    House Authentic produces unique, innovative online experiences and services as well as telehealth services. Also, we invest in cutting edge tech startups, with a focus on initiatives in the aging and longevity space.
  • Material World
    Co-Founder
    Material World
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2022 (3 years 4 months)
    I lead growth strategies and key parts of product development. Also, I lead the engineering team and make key decisions about architectures, technologies, hiring and programming approaches.
  • O
    Founder and CEO
    OKpanda Inc Sold to ALC Press
    Jan 2013 - Oct 2018 (5 years 10 months)
    OKpanda is an English learning platform that includes instant messaging, live voice, and digital curricula. On the team I oversaw all curriculum development, product development and engineering. We use technology and big data to offer an integrated experience of digital practice and live lessons such that the English learning experience is more personalized, effective and fun.
  • P
    Co-founder
    Product X
    Aug 2011 - Jun 2012 (11 months)
    Architected and coded Pinslist, a visual-driven ecommerce site with innovative UI/UX and content. Coded in node.js backend + railway, JS front end. Architected and coded Superhumangoals, a social habit-tracking and goal achievement system. Coded in LAMPhp+JS Explored business models and development in 18 verticals.
  • S
    Co-founder and CEO
    Social Expeditions Sold to Kama Games
    May 2009 - Jul 2011 (2 years 3 months)
    Built a distributed team of fifteen employees (product, engineering, design) to build some of the biggest apps on the iOS, Facebook, Myspace platforms reaching some 70 million users. Photo of the Day: The largest photo sharing app on the Facebook platform for over 18 months. At our peak we had 30M monthly active users and 1.5M daily actives. The product was a way to engage with historical photos and communicate with friends. On iOS, released an RPG (Tap Quest, 500K users), a birthdays app (top birthday app on iOS for over 18 months, over 1 million users) and a resource management game (Mall Party, millions of users). Led all product development on this team
  • S
    Senior Software Engineer
    SGN Social Gaming Network
    Jan 2008 - Jan 2009 (1 year 1 month)
    Designed the infrastructure layer for traffic sharing among SGN apps. Conceived, designed and launched Name-It, an innovative take on Scattegories in a social context.
  • S
    Co-Founder and CEO
    Social Dynamics Sold to Social Gaming Network
    May 2007 - Apr 2008 (1 year)
    Taught myself web programming to take advantage of the Facebook platform opportunity. Built blockbuster apps I am Hungry and Naughty Gifts within 6 weeks of writing my first line of web code, reaching over 4 million users. Continued developing applications on social platforms directing product and defining the vision, growing the userbase to over 10 million users. Grew and managed a team of 5 developers.
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  • Sophia University
    Bachelor's degree, Economics
    Sophia University
    Activities and Societies: Sophia Alpha
  • Brandeis University
    B.Sc., B.A, Neuroscience, Economics, Psychology
    Brandeis University
    Activities and Societies: A-Cappella
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