Go back homeTom Anderson
1970-11-08
Tom Anderson co-founded Myspace in 2003 and became the internet's default first friend to hundreds of millions. Sold it for $580M in 2005, watched Facebook crush it, walked away in 2009, now shoots landscape photography full-time.
The Overview
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Connections, Finances & Insights
Met Anderson at XDrive in 2000; co-founded ResponseBase and then Myspace together, with DeWolfe as CEO and Anderson as president for the company's entire run. Both were replaced by News Corp in the same week in April 2009.
Timeframe: 2000–2009
Acquired ResponseBase, brought Anderson onto eUniverse's staff, and personally approved building Myspace as an internal side project in mid-2003 — without Greenspan's greenlight, Myspace never gets built.
Timeframe: 2002–2005
Personally pursued and closed the $580 million Intermix/Myspace acquisition in 2005, making Anderson wealthy but also folding him into corporate structures that Anderson said constrained his decision-making.
Timeframe: 2005–2009
Brought Anderson to Burning Man 2011 and is directly credited by Anderson for his rapid skill development as a landscape photographer — the person most responsible for Anderson's entire post-Myspace second act.
Timeframe: 2011–present
Fellow 1980s teenage hacker and friend during Anderson's 'Lord Flathead' era; Landreth later authored a published book on computer security.
Timeframe: Mid-1980s
Data quality: 5/10 completeness, 5/10 confidence
Based on 18 sources • Last updated: 2026-08-21