Randy Adams

Current

• Partner at Silicon Valley Productions, Inc.
• Director/Co-Founder at Funny or Die

Past

• Founder/CEO at Searchme.com
• Board of Directors at Yahoo!
• Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems, Inc.

• Senior Software Engineer (employee #15) at Next
• Principal at Booz Allen
• Contractor at T/Maker
• CEO at IIAT
• Senior Associate at Booz Allen
• Expert Consultant at National Library of Medicine
• CIO at Jackson Laboratory

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Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Connections

383 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Funny or Die

Randy Adams’s Summary

Founder/Chairman/CEO/President of seven high technology and retail corporations over a 25 year period. Accomplishments include:

• Co-founded web's most popular comedy video site, Will Ferrell's funnyordie.com
• Director of Engineering for Adobe, conceived Acrobat and PDF formats
• Secured the initial venture funding for Yahoo, Inc. from Sequoia Capital
• Served on the Yahoo Board of Directors from inception to public offering
• Originated the eBay drop off store concept, founded AuctionDrop, Inc.
• Founded the first Internet Shopping site, the Internet Shopping Network

Randy Adams’s Specialties:

Internet Search, Visual Search, Internet Video, Hollywood/Silicon Valley crossover.

Randy Adams’s Experience

• Partner

  Silicon Valley Productions, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Director/Co-Founder

  Funny or Die

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

• Founder/CEO

  Searchme.com

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — July 2009 (4 years 2 months)

  Searchme.com is a next generation web search engine, written from the ground up over the last three years. Helping the world Search, Organize and Share information on the web through a unique visual desktop, Searchme brings innovation to internet search.

• Board of Directors

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

  Introduced Jerry Yang and David Filo to Mike Moritz at Sequoia Capital and helped secure Yahoo's first round of finding - Was on the board of directors until the company went public.

• Director of Engineering

  Adobe Systems, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1991 (1 year )

  In charge the engineering of all application products including PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc. Was responsible for the original concept of PDF and Acrobat for Adobe. Directed a staff of 200 engineers.

• Senior Software Engineer (employee #15)

  Next

  (Internet industry)

  1986 — 1990 (4 years )

  Was responsible for the design and implementation of the original Objective C toolbox, which has evolved into the SDK for Apple Mac OSX.

• Principal

  Booz Allen

  (Internet industry)

  1980 — 1990 (10 years )

• Contractor

  T/Maker

  (Internet industry)

  1985 — 1986 (1 year )

• CEO

  IIAT

  (Internet industry)

  1982 — 1985 (3 years )

• Senior Associate

  Booz Allen

  (Internet industry)

  1979 — 1982 (3 years )

• Expert Consultant

  National Library of Medicine

  (Internet industry)

  1979 — 1982 (3 years )

• CIO

  Jackson Laboratory

  (Internet industry)

  1974 — 1979 (5 years )

Randy Adams’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  BS , EE , 1970 — 1974

Additional Information

Randy Adams’s Websites:

• Funny or Die

Randy Adams’s Interests:

randy@searchme.com

Randy Adams’s Groups:

Friends of Robert Simon

Randy Adams’s Contact Settings

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