John Gotts has been starting companies since he was ten years old and on the Web with his father since 1993. In the last seventeen years John has worked in many different spaces including search, wiki, online auctions, file-sharing, computer security, email protection, credit card reward tracking, as well as offline pursuits in agriculture, electric vehicles and hydrogen generation.
In July 2009 John moved to Palo Alto and co-founded Chum.ly (CHUM dot LY). Chumly is a social media super site, which enhances the use of Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites and blogs. John serves as the Chairman & CEO of Chumly. John is now building the team that will make Chumly one of the most important social media sites on the Web. The team is growing on a daily basis and this is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
John currently lives in the forested foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley. From his home office John works globally with more than fifty people who are dedicated to making Chum.ly a great place to manage many social sites from a single, simple location.
John Gotts is a junior politician who ran for State Representative in Washington and who will return to the area in 2011 to run for U.S. Congress in 2012.
John Gotts has a profound love for business and has since riding his skateboard to E.F. Hutton at ten years old. As a boy John spent many of his summers at the Lansing Public Library pouring over annual reports, which he'd discuss afterwards with his father. While living in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1994 to 1997 John Gotts wrote a stock trading newsletter called TrendTrading.com, which focused on buying and shorting core blue-chip stocks based on historical charts and trends. The trades returned over 100% annually and was followed in real-time by nearly five hundred people. John stopped writing the newsletter when valuations and traditional methods of valuing stocks went out the window with the birth of the dot coms. John believes that we live in the greatest country in the world and that anyone has the ability to solve a problem and create a business that employees people at a living wage solving that problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the potential business from the solve. That is John's belief and passion and that is what John hopes to share.
John is an avid high-speed snowboarder and enjoys playing the guitar, singing karaoke and skydiving. Chum.ly is now John's single focus. John will help guide Chumly to becoming a very important player in the social media space. Chum.ly went live in June 2010 on the Web, iPhone and iPad.
