{{Short description|English businessman (born 1984)}} '''Alex Tew''' (born 1984) is a British entrepreneur and the co-founder of the meditation app ''Calm''. He is known for The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005, at the age of 21, which earned him more than $1 million in five months.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pierce |first1=Sarah |title=The Million-Dollar Home Page |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/82936 |website=Entrepreneur |language=en |date=13 January 2006}}</ref>
== Career == Tew was raised in Wiltshire, England. He began meditating when he was fourteen and he frequently read books about concentration, memory, and cognition. He attended a business management program at the University of Nottingham before dropping out in December 2005.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last1=Garone |first1=Elizabeth |title=The man behind the million-dollar homepage |language=en |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160914-the-man-behind-the-million-dollar-homepage |access-date=30 July 2021}}</ref>
After the success of The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005, Tew began several internet ventures including Pixelotto, which sold advertising space on websites. He founded humor-focused social network called PopJam, and a Million Dollar Homepage-inspired website site called One Million People which featured photos instead of advertisements.<ref name=":0" /> He made a Flash game called Sock and Awe in 2008, which was a gamified version of the George W. Bush shoeing incident.{{cn|date=October 2025}} While he was the CEO of PopJam in 2011, he and developer Ben Dowling created a site called "Do Nothing For 2 Minutes".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tsotsis |first=Alexia |date=2011-01-21 |title=Creator Of Million Dollar Homepage Makes Do Nothing For 2 Minutes |url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/21/creator-of-million-dollar-homepage-makes-do-nothing-for-2-minutes/ |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=TechCrunch |language=en-US}}</ref>
Tew moved to San Francisco and co-founded ''Calm'' with Michael Acton Smith in 2012 and serves as CEO. The company operates a meditation app.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alex Tew, Calm.com Inc: Profile and Biography |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/22076354 |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=Bloomberg.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=Alex Tew, creator of the Million Dollar Homepage, wants you to keep calm |url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/visit-reload-and-refresh |access-date=30 July 2021 |magazine=Wired UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Alex Tew |url=https://smithandwilliamson.com/en/solutions/entrepreneurs/entrepreneurs-hall-of-fame/alex-tew/ |website=Smith & Williamson |access-date=30 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=DiPiazza |first1=Daniel |title=This Entrepreneur Skipped College and Made $1,037,100 In Five Months |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/292422 |website=Entrepreneur |access-date=30 July 2021 |language=en |date=24 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Crockett |first1=Zachary |title=How the Million Dollar Homepage kid became the $250m app man |url=https://thehustle.co/million-dollar-homepage-alex-tew |website=The Hustle |date=12 May 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Callum |last1=Jones |title=Keeping Calm and carrying on with a long-term ambition |url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/markets/article/keeping-calm-and-carrying-on-with-a-long-term-ambition-qr7ggnh2v |access-date=30 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Yiannopoulos |first1=Milo |title=Is Alex Tew the most annoying man on the internet? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8022539/Is-Alex-Tew-the-most-annoying-man-on-the-internet.html |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref>
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