Edward Lerner
Education
500 Startups
Batch 25, 2019-04-01 - 2019-08-01
Wesleyan University
BA, Physics, Intellectual History 1900-01-01 -Work Experience
Hearo
2017-03-01 - 2024-12-01
Hearo
Sony Interactive Entertainment
2003-12-01 - 2017-02-01
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Electronic Arts (EA)
2003-01-01 - 2003-01-01
Electronic Arts (EA)
Propel Partners
2002-05-01 - 2002-12-01
Propel Partners
FireTalk Inc.
1999-01-01 - 2002-04-01
FireTalk Inc.
Multitude
1995-10-01 - 1999-01-01
Multitude
Looking Glass Technologies
1992-01-01 - 1995-11-01
Looking Glass Technologies
Lerner Research
1985-01-01 - 1991-01-01
Lerner Research
Skills
Summary
I make new media platforms. • Since age sixteen, built companies and teams from scratch to hundreds of people • Worked on over $5B of original, award-winning games including Chuck Yeager (’87), System Shock (’94), Sims2 (’04) and over one hundred PlayStation games (’05-‘17) • Founded Multitude, Inc. Made Fireteam, one of the first MOBAs, a LoL precursor. • Founded Firetalk, Inc. Made Firetalk, one of the first Internet conferencing services, a Skype precursor. • My products have been featured on The Today Show, the Superbowl pregame show, Good Morning America, New York Times, BusinessWeek, ... • Filed dozens of patents for inventions in payments, 3D, video, social, communications, multiplayer gaming, networking, messaging, CRM, AR
