Emerson James Spartz was born on February 17,1987 and is the founder of the viral media company Dose and the founder of MuggleNet, a Harry Potter fansite.
12 Facts About Emerson Spartz
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At the age of twelve, Emerson Spartz convinced his parents to allow him to drop out of school and homeschool himself.
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Emerson Spartz developed his own curriculum, which his parents supplemented by requiring him to read four single-page biographies of successful people every day, which were collected from the pages of Investor's Business Daily.
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Emerson Spartz has subsequently attributed some of his entrepreneurial success to reading these short biographies.
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In fall 2006, while a junior at Notre Dame, Emerson Spartz co-authored a book, MuggleNet.
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In June 2007, Emerson Spartz went on a tour with Ben Schoen, another MuggleNet staff member, to promote their work.
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In 2009, Emerson Spartz launched Emerson Spartz Media, now called Dose, a company that originally crowdsourced viral web content across thirty websites.
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Emerson Spartz has launched at least thirty websites under the Emerson Spartz Media brand, all of which primarily rely on social media sites for web traffic.
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In 2016 Emerson Spartz was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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Emerson Spartz graduated in May 2009 from the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
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Emerson Spartz has stated that he read one book of nonfiction per day during college.
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Emerson Spartz married Gaby Emerson Spartz, his college girlfriend, in 2011.