Andrew Torba is an American entrepreneur based in Texas. He is the co-founder of Gab and Automate Ads.
History
Torba co-founded Kuhcoon in 2011, a “social media as a service” company.[1][2]
Torba claimed to have purchased Bitcoin when it was valued at under $200. He wrote enthusiastically about paying for an order at Subway using Coinbase on November 19, 2013.[3][4]
In late 2014, Y Combinator invested in Kuhcoon, and Torba moved to California.[5] Kuhcoon changed its name to Automate Ads on June 25, 2015.[6]
Torba stepped down as CEO of the company in August 2016.[7] That same month, Torba co-founded Gab with Ekrem Büyükkaya, using crowdfunding platform StartEngine.[8]
External links
Ha, A. (2015, February 19). YC-Backed Kuhcoon Promises To Automate Facebook Ad Campaigns For Small Businesses. TechCrunch. http://archive.today/2023.04.27-045011/https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/19/yc-backed-kuhcoon-promises-to-automate-facebook-ad-campaigns-for-small-businesses/ ↩︎
About Us. Kuhcoon. Retrieved March 23, 2012, from https://web.archive.org/web/20120323001149/http://kuhcoon.com/index/aboutus ↩︎
Torba, A. I Bought Subway with Bitcoin and It Was Awesome. Medium. Retrieved December 7, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20131207144207/https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/48c233e67ddc ↩︎
Jeffries, A. (2014, February 11). The Bitcoin bump: stores turn to virtual currency for a marketing boost. The Verge. https://web.archive.org/web/20230427044405/https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/11/5401044/the-bitcoin-bump-stores-turn-to-virtual-currency-for-a-marketing-boost ↩︎
Dickson, C. (2018, October 30). Who Is Gab Founder Andrew Torba? HuffPost. http://archive.today/2020.10.24-201348/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gab-founder-andrew-torba_n_5bd89d70e4b0dee6eececbc5?guccounter=1 ↩︎
Pennsylvania Department of State. (2015, July 1). Automate Ads. OpenCorporates. http://archive.today/2021.02.08-024310/https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_pa/4365645 ↩︎
Gab. StartEngine. Retrieved November 30, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20201130113341/https://www.startengine.com/gab ↩︎
Wolverton, T. (2018, October 27). The suspected Pittsburgh shooter allegedly had a following on a social network that many call the far-right’s alternative to Twitter — here’s everything we know about Gab. Business Insider. http://archive.today/2018.10.28-063204/https://www.businessinsider.nl/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-gab-2018-10/?international=true&r=US ↩︎
