====== Andrew Torba ======

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**Andrew Torba** is an American entrepreneur based in [[united_states:Texas]].

===== History =====

Torba co-founded [[Kuhcoon]] in 2011, a "social media as a service" company.((Ha, A. (2015, February 19). //YC-Backed Kuhcoon Promises To Automate Facebook Ad Campaigns For Small Businesses.// TechCrunch. http://archive.today/2023.04.27-045011/https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/19/yc-backed-kuhcoon-promises-to-automate-facebook-ad-campaigns-for-small-businesses/)) ((//About Us.// Kuhcoon. Retrieved March 23, 2012, from https://web.archive.org/web/20120323001149/http://kuhcoon.com/index/aboutus))

Torba claimed to have purchased [[Bitcoin]] when it was valued at under $200. He wrote enthusiastically about paying for an order at [[Subway]] using [[Coinbase]] on November 19, 2013.((Torba, A. //I Bought Subway with Bitcoin and It Was Awesome.// Medium. Retrieved December 7, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20131207144207/https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/48c233e67ddc)) ((Jeffries, A. (2014, February 11). //The Bitcoin bump: stores turn to virtual currency for a marketing boost.// The Verge. https://web.archive.org/web/20230427044405/https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/11/5401044/the-bitcoin-bump-stores-turn-to-virtual-currency-for-a-marketing-boost))

In late 2014, [[Y Combinator]] invested in Kuhcoon, and Torba moved to [[united_states:California]].((Dickson, C. (2018, October 30). //Who Is Gab Founder Andrew Torba?// HuffPost. http://archive.today/2020.10.24-201348/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gab-founder-andrew-torba_n_5bd89d70e4b0dee6eececbc5?guccounter=1)) Kuhcoon changed its name to [[Automate Ads]] on June 25, 2015.((Pennsylvania Department of State. (2015, July 1). //Automate Ads.// OpenCorporates. http://archive.today/2021.02.08-024310/https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_pa/4365645)) 

Torba stepped down as CEO of the company in August 2016.((//Gab.// StartEngine. Retrieved November 30, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20201130113341/https://www.startengine.com/gab)) That same month, Torba co-founded [[Gab]] with [[Ekrem Büyükkaya]].((Wolverton, T. (2018, October 27). //The suspected Pittsburgh shooter allegedly had a following on a social network that many call the far-right’s alternative to Twitter — here’s everything we know about Gab.// Business Insider. http://archive.today/2018.10.28-063204/https://www.businessinsider.nl/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-gab-2018-10/?international=true&r=US))

===== External links =====

  * [[https://www.crunchbase.com/person/andrew-torba|Crunchbase]]
  * [[https://wiki.whiteroseintelligence.com/Andrew-Torba|White Rose Wiki]]