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What is Ricky Van Veen’s Net Worth?
Ricky Van Veen is an American entrepreneur who has a net worth of $25 million. Ricky Van Veen earned his fortune because the co-founder of on-line comedy firm, CollegeHumor. Van Veen co-founded CollegeHumor.com with Josh Abramson in 1999. Over the following a number of years the location grew to draw thousands and thousands of month-to-month guests who loved CollegeHumor’s movies, photographs, illustrations and articles. CollegeHumor would ultimately department into the TShirt enterprise with their firm BustedTees, and a manufacturing firm that has been concerned with TV and movie. The web site has additionally produced a number of tv sequence and hopes to department out in to films. In 2006, CollegeHumor was acquired by InterActiveCorp (IAC) for $25 million. Before the acquisition, the corporate was incomes $15 million per 12 months.
Ricky at present serves as Head of Global Creative Strategy at Facebook. Among his different initiatives, Van Veen was beforehand the CEO of Notional, a tv manufacturing firm and was a co-founder of an organization referred to as Connected Ventures which owned an early fairness stake in Vimeo. He can also be recognized for being married to actress Allison Williams from 2015 to 2019.
Early Life and Education
Ricky Van Veen was born on December 14, 1980 in Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland to Helen and Richard Sr. As a younger grownup, he attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, graduating in 2003 with a level in administration and knowledge techniques.
CollegeHumor
While he was a scholar at Wake Forest in late 1999, Van Veen co-founded the web site CollegeHumor along with his previous highschool buddy Josh Abramson. In the start, they used the location to submit humorous images, essays, and movies their mates created. Eventually, CollegeHumor expanded into a significant on-line comedy firm with unique comedy content material posted on YouTube. Among its staple options are CH Originals, that are sketches and brief movies written and produced by the CollegeHumor workers. Members embrace Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, and Adam Conover. CH Originals embody every little thing from movie and tv parodies to music movies and animation, with notable sequence together with “Jake and Amir,” “Full Benefits,” “POV,” “Adam Ruins Everything,” “Troopers,” and “Hot Date.” By the tip of 2022, the CollegeHumor YouTube channel had amassed greater than seven billion views and over 14 million subscribers.
In 2018, CollegeHumor established the subscription-based streaming service Dropout, which turned the host for a variety of new scripted and unscripted sequence. Following the corporate’s sale to Sam Reich in 2020, the platform started that includes unscripted sequence solely as a result of finances constraints. On Dropout, CollegeHumor’s sequence have included the dwell play tabletop role-playing present “Dimension 20” and the sport reveals “Game Changer” and “Um, Actually.” Among different CollegeHumor initiatives was “The CollegeHumor Show,” a short-lived sitcom that aired on MTV in 2009. Van Veen appeared as a fictionalized model of himself on the present, alongside Sam Reich, Dan Gurewitch, Amir Blumenfeld, Jake Hurwitz, and Sarah Schneider.
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Vimeo
In late 2004, the video-sharing web site Vimeo was based by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein. Originally created as a by-product of CollegeHumor, the location was primarily used to share humorous movies amongst colleagues. Both CollegeHumor and Vimeo had been acquired by IAC in 2006. Vimeo, which along with internet hosting movies gives subscribers with instruments for video creation, modifying, broadcasting, and extra, has over 260 million customers and round 1.6 million subscribers. In the spring of 2021, it turned a standalone public firm.
Other Ventures
In the summer season of 2009, Van Veen was introduced because the CEO of a brand new manufacturing firm referred to as Notional. Focused on manufacturing for linear tv, the corporate is answerable for the reality-based cooking sport present “Chopped,” which has aired on the Food Network since 2009. Later, in 2015, Van Veen co-founded the product firm Scroll Commerce, by which he creates merchandise to promote on-line, equivalent to the favored Homesick Candle. The firm was acquired by BuzzFeed to function the inspiration of its new Product Labs division.
In 2016, Van Veen was employed by Facebook within the new place of Head of Global Creative Strategy. His actions in that position embrace working with varied media firms and creators to spice up viewers engagement on the social media platform.
Personal Life
Van Veen married his first spouse, actress Allison Williams, in 2015. The pair divorced in 2019. Van Veen went on to wed Caroline Kassie, the enterprise associate of Chelsea Clinton, in the summertime of 2021.
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