Clifford Lerner

Clifford Lerner is a social media visionary and entrepreneur based in New York City. He is widely recognized as a leading spokesperson on social media and has appeared on several TV networks, including CNBC, Bloomberg, and Yahoo! Finance. Lerner started his career as an equity analyst at Lehman Brothers before co-founding Snap Interactive, which achieved extraordinary growth of over 100 million users and $100 million in revenue. The company pioneered numerous social and online dating innovations, including the first dating site to integrate Facebook's social features, swiping, mutual interests, among others.

Lerner is also an accomplished author, publishing the Amazon best-seller "Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned Growing to 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million." In this book, he narrates his journey as an entrepreneur, sharing insights into entrepreneurship, marketing strategy, and management in order to achieve explosive growth.

Today, Lerner is currently working on a location-based messaging app and is the co-founder and CEO of FOMO Ventures, Inc., which invests in and incubates startups. He is also a former board member of Bumble, which was acquired for $3B by Blackstone.

Asides from his career, Lerner enjoys traveling, startups, crypto, Warren Buffet, Tony Robins, and playing basketball, where he often works on his 3-point shot.