1993 UNC Chapel Hill , BA , Journalism and mass communications |
Entrepreneur
I want to change the world.
Keepskor
Never enough time to do all the things I want to do.
Not focusing enough on customer acquisition
1. Customers before all (investors, employees)
2. The solution to the problem you're solving is not the first iteration
3. Obscurity is worse than negative comments
Tristan Louis is an Internet veteran, having worked in the Internet industry since 1993. Mr. Louis was the founder or co-founder of two publicly traded companies (Internet.com and Earthweb) and two companies that were sold (Net Quotient and Moveablemedia) during the dotcom boom.
Mr. Louis' last company was acquired by a large financial firm, leading him to a decade-long career on Wall Street where he built back-end payment systems for the likes of Linden Labs (Second Life), Blizzard (World of Warcraft), Google (Wallet), Amazon (Payment), and Apple (app store). Mr. Louis also worked as Chief Innovation Officer, helping with some of the first NFC offerings in the world.
Today, Mr. Louis is one of the co-founder and the CEO of Keepskor, a new gaming platform that allows anyone to create simple games on mobiles devices, connected TVs and more, without having to write a single line of code.
A journalist by trade, Mr. Louis has written extensively about the Internet, first in industry publications like Internet World, Business 2.0, the Silicon Alley Reporter, and on his popular weblog, TNL.net. Many of the pieces he's written on his blog have led to interviews in mainstream media both in print (Business Week, the New York Times, the Financial Times, etc...) and broadcast (the BBC, NPR, CBC, etc...) and to speaking engagements around the world.
A pioneer in Internet development, Mr. Louis has been involved in several important developments in the industry:
Born in France but living in the United States, Mr. Louis believes that globalization is now a fact of life and that companies or governments which believe it can be stopped or averted are fooling themselves. He has led development teams on multi-national projects involving development and project management across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.