Andrew Paradise is the CEO and Founder of Skillz (NYSE: SKLZ), the leading mobile games platform for fair and fun competition, and the first publicly-traded mobile esports platform in the world. A pioneer of the idea of skill-based competition, under Paradise’s leadership, Skillz has become an industry leader in mobile gaming.
Paradise has been the founding inventor behind companies in technology sectors ranging from eCommerce to image recognition. His passion for innovation and tech started early. At the age of seven he learned to program by hacking a video game. He began his professional career in private equity and venture capital, but in 2008 pivoted into tech when he founded his first business, Double Picture, an advertising technology firm. He sold the company to MPA, Inc. in 2010.
In 2010, Paradise founded AisleBuyer, best known for pioneering mobile self-checkout prior to its sale to Intuit in 2012.