Ben Parr

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ben Parr
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1985(1985-02-12)
Age	39
Birthplace	Princeton
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Aquarius

Ben Parr Biography

Ben Parr is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on February 12, 1985 in Princeton, Illinois, United States. Parr is born the year 1985 from rural Princeton, Illinois to Harold E. Parr Jr. and Vilarat Nid Parr. He resigned from the football team to become a drummer. He achieved his rank as an Eagle Scout in 2002 and was valedictorian at Princeton High School in 2004.

After the 2008 graduation ceremony Parr was a mentor to Troy Henikoff and Mark Achler in launching Free Lunch, a Facebook application development firm. Following the time that Facebook changed its policies for app developers, Parr moved on with Achler to work for Veritas Health.

In 2010, Parr was named a “Technology Industry Trendsetter, Luminary & Chronicler” by the Public Relations Society of America.

In 2011, Parr was named one of the top 10 tech journalists in the world by Say Media. Parr was also named San Francisco’s coolest social media geek by SF Weekly.

Parr began working at Mashable as writer in August of 2008, but became Associate Editor by March 2009. He was then promoted Co-Editor by September 2009 and Editor at-Large in May 2011. While at Mashable of writing, he published 2,446 articles that focused on web technology media, business, and business. He also established the Mashable West Coast office and was a part of the editorial staff at Mashable. He was dismissed from Mashable in November of 2011, following a dispute over the amount of compensation.

Ben Parr Net Worth

Ben Parr is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ben Parr 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ben Parr (born February 12 in 1985) was an American journalist and author. He is also a venture capitalist, author and an entrepreneur. He is the writer of Captivology The Science of Attracting People’s Attention A book about the psychology and science of attention and the ways to grab the interest of other people. He is the president and co-founder of Octane AI, a marketing automation and chatbot business for e-commerce. He was a former venture capitalist, editor-at-large and co-editor-at-large of Mashable as well as an author and commentator for CNET. He was selected as one of Forbes 30 Under 30, which is Forbes 30 Under 30.

Parr is an entrepreneur with a track record of success and started his first business while at Northwestern University. In September of 2006, during his senior year at Northwestern Parr began an initiative to protest against the debut of Facebook’s News Feed feature. The group he set up, “Students Against Facebook News Feed” was at its peak with over 730,000 members at the time before Facebook accepted the protests and enacted more privacy restrictions.

Parr graduated from Northwestern University in 2008 with a B.A. in Science in Human Culture, Political Science and a minor in Business Institutions. He was awarded the Kapnick Prize for his work in promoting entrepreneurship on campus. He worked as a Community Assistant at Elder Hall and was elected president of InNUvation, Northwestern’s entrepreneurship club, as an undergraduate.

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In 2013, Parr was designated as a fellow of the Tribeca Film Festival’s Disruption foundation.

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Ben Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ben Parr celebrates birthday on February 12 of every year.

On February 4, 2014, Parr announced that he was in the process of writing his first book, Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention, released by HarperCollins in March 2015. His book focuses on understanding the psychology of attention and how that scientific knowledge can be applied to capture the attention of others. His book includes interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, Steven Soderbergh, Jeff Weiner, Grant Imahara, Brian Stelter, David Copperfield, Daniel Pink, Shigeru Miyamoto, Alan Baddeley, Susan Cain, Michael Posner, Adrian Grenier and others.

Who is ben Parr?

Ben Parr is President and Co-Founder of Octane AI , the all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.

Where is octane AI located?

Octane AI is located in San Francisco, California, United States .

What does octane AI do?

Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.

What is the company octane?

The company, which offers “instant” financing for large recreational purchases , boasts impressive financials in a startup world whose inhabitants are mostly unprofitable. For one, Octane is both net income and operating cash flow positive, and expects to originate more than $1 billion in the next 12 months.

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