Gerard Adams

Adams was a celebrity judge for the 2016 Shorty Awards.

Adams provided the initial funding for Elite Daily, a news site targeted at millennials, which he co-founded with his interns David Arabov and Jonathan Francis, who were both 19 at the time. By the end of 2013, the company earned $400,000 in profit and averaged 41 million readers monthly. In 2015, Adams, along with his co-founders, sold Elite Daily to DMG Media, which also owns the British Tabloid, The Daily Mail, for $50 million. Elite Daily was later sold by DMG to another holding company, Bustle Digital Group.

In the 2000s, Adams started a stock market forum named StockSpot. The website included a 5-star ratings feature to evaluate writer contributions. Adams claimed he grew StockSpot to $10 million in revenue before the 2008 stock market crash. He founded several other finance-related companies, including an online investor-relations and financial-marketing company, and the National Inflation Association, which educates consumers on economic changes.

Gerard Adams (born December 20, 1984) is an American entrepreneur. Adams was co-founder of Elite Daily a news site targeted towards millennials, which sold to the Daily Mail in 2015 for $50 million. He is also a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine and the founder of Newark, New Jersey start up accelerator, Fownders. Adams is also the host of internet-television series, Leaders Create Leaders.

Adams was born in New Jersey in 1984, and grew up in Belleville, New Jersey. His father worked at Prudential Financial and his mother at A&P.