Anthony "Tony" McTony (born 1979) is an American businessman and programmer, who was one of the founders of Bleeter social networking site, and currently owns several shares in both Lifeinvader, and Facebook, and several other social networking and video sharing websites, as well as the owner of several other social networking and video sharing websites.
Biography[]
Early Life & Childhood[]
Anthony "Tony" McTony was born and grew up in The Bronx, New York City, New York, to an African-American family. Having grown up poor on the streets, Tony was a victim of bullying during his childhood, due to him being a geek with an interest in technology (specifically the then growing filed of computer science), which also prevented him from getting any lasting romantic relationships until adulthood.
Tony graduated from high school in 1997 at the age of 18, and with the help of his family, started to attend Cornell University, due to the latter's already established computer department. There, he attended a 4-year computer science program, from which he graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After that, Tony worked a number of manial jobs, usually as a store clerk. This period in life would be marked with some grievences, mainly concerning his height - Tony was 5'3 feet tall, an average height for a man, but Tony felt insecure about it. It supposedly led to many small incidents, such as an alleged incident at Coney Island in 2005, where he was denied entry to a rollercoaster due to not being tall enough, for which he angrily assaulted the ticket booth clerk for, leading to him getting arrested.
Becoming Rich[]
Around 2008, at the age of 29, McTony, as well as a couple of his friends, decided to make their own social networking service, which they decided to name "Bleeter". The company was met with massive success, and as a result, Tony suddenly became very wealthy. Wasting no time, he moved to Eaglewood, New Jersey, where he purchased a mansion with a helipad (his primary residence). He also bought a luxury mansion in Hollywood, Los Angeles (which is mainly used for hosting parties), and a glass penthouse with a hard glass elevator and hard glass jacuzzi in 3 Second Street at Harborside in Jersey City, New Jersey.