Jerry Paffendorf

Current

• Flounder, Smartist, and Adventure Zapitalist at Crazy Company
• Co-Founder and Creative Director at Wello Horld, Inc.

Past

• Resident Futurist at The Electric Sheep Company
• Resident Futurist at The Electric Sheep Company (ESC)
• Community and Research Director at Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF)

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Education

• Montclair State University
• University of Houston-Clear Lake

Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Jerry Paffendorf’s Summary

Jerry Paffendorf is an artist, futurist, and entrepreneur at the intersection of the web, video games, virtual worlds, and the real world. Pretty sexy, no? He is co-founder of Wello Horld, a startup whose mission is to transform the World Wide Web into the World Wide World. Previously he was Resident Futurist with The Electric Sheep Company where he provided strategy insights, a public face, and R&D direction as the company grew from 3 to more than 60 employees and opened up the platform virtual world development space. Jerry often organizes and speaks at conferences and is co-author of the Metaverse Roadmap cross-industry foresight report with the Acceleration Studies Foundation, where he also worked previously as a community and research director. He has an MS in Studies of the Future, a BFA in video and multi-media, a GED, and lives in Brooklyn, New York (AKA "Silicon Ghetto"), the emerging world metaverse capital. Jerry is turtles all the way down.

Jerry Paffendorf’s Experience

• Flounder, Smartist, and Adventure Zapitalist

  Crazy Company

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Crazy enough to work. A fun side project that may become something bigger. More soon. (note on Crazy Company pronunciation: it's like "Crazy Company" with the first letters flipped ;))

• Co-Founder and Creative Director

  Wello Horld, Inc.

  (Online Media industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  It's turtles all the way down.

• Resident Futurist

  The Electric Sheep Company

  (Online Media industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

• Resident Futurist

  The Electric Sheep Company (ESC)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  December 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  Sheeping around.

• Community and Research Director

  Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF)

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Think Tanks industry)

  May 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 7 months)

  Going up and to the right with John Smart.

Jerry Paffendorf’s Education

• Montclair State University

  BFA , Fine Arts (video and mixed-media)

• University of Houston-Clear Lake

  MS , Studies of the Future