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    Tom Hadfield

    Tom Hadfield

    Founder @message-io • Studied at @harvard-university

    Founder Austin Harvard University
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    Experience
    Mio
    Mio
    Founder, CEO 2015 - Present (almost 11 years)
    Messaging interoperability
    Fetch
    Fetch
    Founder, CEO 2013 - 2015 (over 2 years)
    AeroDesigns
    AeroDesigns
    Founder, CEO 2010 - 2013 (about 3 years)
    Co-founded with Harvard professor David Edwards with $23.7m financing, led by Polaris Partners and Flagship Ventures.
    Schoolsnet
    Schoolsnet
    Founder, General Manager 1999 - 2003 (over 4 years)
    Online education company with 32 employees, now owned by Hotcourses.
    Soccernet.com
    Soccernet.com
    Founder 1995 - 1999 (over 3 years)
    The world's most popular soccer website with 100+ million page views per month, acquired by ESPN for £25 million in April 1999.
    Founder
    Mio, Fetch, Soccernet.com, Schoolsnet, AeroDesigns
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    Attorney
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Tom Hadfield is a British entrepreneur whose first company, Soccernet.com, was sold to ESPN for $40 million when he was 17 years old. Today, Tom is the CEO of Message.io, a Y Combinator-backed startup based in Austin, Texas. Tom was previously the CEO of AeroDesigns where he raised $23.7 million from Polaris Partners and Flagship Ventures. Tom graduated from Harvard University in 2008 and he is a board member at Heifer International, a charity working to end hunger and poverty around the world.

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    Skills
    Entrepreneurship Financing Term Sheets Growth Hacking E-Commerce Public Speaking
    Locations
    Austin
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    Venture Deals, by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

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