Tom Anderson
American entrepreneur and former president of MySpaceWikipedia
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Oct 5, 2026
Ryan LehmanHOST
And, I mean, this is kind of slow here.
Ryan LehmanHOST
Tom just says, I will.
Ryan LehmanHOST
Vince kind of chuckles.
Jason GarberHOST
He's a good kid.
Jason GarberHOST
He's probably like a photographer who lives a quiet life with his family.
Jason GarberHOST
You know? Yeah.
Jason GarberHOST
Like Tom from
Ryan LehmanHOST
MySpace.
SydneyHOST
Fuck you," and he just, like, goes back out into the ether.
SydneyHOST
And, like, that guy, and MySpace Tom, and the Costco CEO, and the, the Arizona Tea guy are, like-
AmyHOST
These might be the best people amongst us in the world
SydneyHOST
...
Ryan RebalkinHOST
What, what's the name of the guy on Myspace? The-
Ruben RebalkinHOST
Tom?
Ryan RebalkinHOST
Tom, that's right.
Ryan RebalkinHOST
When, when, uh, Myspace was first created and I created an account, I didn't have any, of course I didn't have any friends or contacts, and Tom added me on Myspace.
Ryan RebalkinHOST
I kid you not, Ruben, I thought he was legit, like, I thought it was a legitimate friend, like, or, or a person that wanted to add me on Myspace.
Ruben RebalkinHOST
[laughs]
Ruben RebalkinHOST
Those universes overlapped.
Ryan RebalkinHOST
They did.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
Do you remember MySpace? It's the predecessor to things like Facebook and Instagram and all that.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
The founder of MySpace was a guy named Tom Anderson.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
Tom Anderson sold MySpace for some ridiculous amount of money, but I think he kept like 30 million of it was his proceeds or something.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
And in general, rather than starting a new business, investing in something crazy, going to the next platform, he kinda disappeared.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
I love that about him.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
And if you look at Tom Anderson's Instagram page, although I haven't seen it in three, four years now, he just kind of became a photographer.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
Start- started traveling and would take f- photos, and every once in a while, post something on his page.
Maurice PhilogeneHOST
So he put it down.
Kurt SchlichterHOST
You may know him on the Twitter machine as Cynical Publius.
Kurt SchlichterHOST
He's Tom Anderson.
Kurt SchlichterHOST
He was a ordinance officer, a logistics officer in the United States Army, airborne, not a five-jump chump like me.
Kurt SchlichterHOST
And he also became, after serving as a full colonel, became a mergers and acquisitions lawyer in Silicon Valley.
DannyAUDIENCE
There was a lot of symbolism used through art, trying to tell a story.
Chuck OchelliHOST
Well, even if you look at the Matrix, you know, and Neo, OK, he's new, but he's also Tom Anderson.
Chuck OchelliHOST
And if you look at the root, you know, the roots of those two names, Tom and Anderson, guess what? You put it all together.
Chuck OchelliHOST
You're talking about the son of man.
Chuck OchelliHOST
So if you look at it, Neo is a Christ figure.
Chuck OchelliHOST
Um, again, you know, some hardcore Christians would get upset at that, but it is what it is.
Chuck OchelliHOST
Uh, you know, what do you want me to tell you? Uh, and Tom Anderson, again, if you look at the roots, uh, the, the, the actual, you know, origins of those names, you have the son of man there.
Chuck OchelliHOST
Okay.
DorianHOST
Then the captain decided he wanted to go as fast as the ship could go at night without moonlight in the middle of an ice field and turn 1,500 people into popsicles.
DorianHOST
Another bad decision was in 2000 when Netflix founders, they reportedly tried to sell their company to Blockbuster for about $50 million.
DorianHOST
The people in the meeting for Blockbuster, they literally laughed at Netflix and they told them that they will never be worth anything and to leave now and that they wouldn't validate their parking.
DorianHOST
Well, less than 10 years later, Blockbuster went bankrupt and Netflix eventually became a global entertainment giant, all while Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010.
Mason MarangellaHOST
There we go, yes.
Brian OmilionHOST
Tom, MySpace Tom.
Mason MarangellaHOST
I think, I think my, my college or u- university was the, I think the second university to get Facebook when it used to just be like-
Grant KlassenHOST
No way
Cody SweezoHOST
I'm just people?
Tanner Richard KraftHOST
Oh, Myspace! Fake MySpace Tom fan.
Cody SweezoHOST
No, I was opposed.
Cody SweezoHOST
MySpace didn't exist.
Elise BrysonGUEST
When I got sober back in 2006, there were like three books at Barnes & Noble.
Elise BrysonGUEST
And I was hanging out with Tom on MySpace, which I read a headline yesterday.
Elise BrysonGUEST
I hope it's not a lie that MySpace is positioning for a comeback.
Elise BrysonGUEST
And that would thrill me to no end.
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