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Dec 1, 2023 · The current CEO of Chess.com is Erik Allebest, who co-founded the company with Jay Severson in 2005. Jay and Erik were college friends who later reconnected and decided to turn their love of chess into a website where they as chess players could feel at home.
· Experience: Landover · Location: San Jose · 175 connections on LinkedIn. View Jay Severson’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
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May 7, 2007 · Discover the online chess profile of Jay Severson (jay) at Chess.com. See their chess rating, follow their best games, and challenge them to play a game.
Jun 21, 2023 · Chess.com, the world’s leading chess platform, has been named in TIME’s prestigious 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023 list. The site, founded in 2005 by college friends Erik Allebest and Jay Severson, is part of an impressive list, which you can find here.
A story of LinkUp’s client, Jay Severson, the co-founder of chess.com, the creator of other brilliant ideas, and his advice to those who are about to start t...
Feb 1, 2024 · Our guest today is Jay Severson who co-founded Chess.com and was its CTO. He joins the podcast to talk about the origins of the site, its development, scaling the platform, and what he’s working on today.
Jul 31, 2020 · Read writing from Jay Severson on Medium. Founder of Nutty Party. Every day, Jay Severson and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium.
Jan 15, 2024 · If you want to hear the full story of Jay Severson, where he tells how he dropped coding even though he didn’t want to, how he started and stopped at exercise.com, what other games he made and which piece of advice he would give to all the startupers, listen to our new podcast.
In 2005, Internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom "Jay" Severson, who met as undergraduate students at Brigham Young University, bought the domain name and assembled a team of software developers, redeveloping the site as a chess portal.
Apr 20, 2023 · After selling Wholesale Chess for $2.5 million, he bought the domain Chess.com for $55,000 and teamed up with his college buddy, Jay Severson, to build the world's best online chess community.
