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Mark Jeffery is an American author and entrepreneur, known for the New York Times bestselling books, Max Quick Series, and as an award-winning serial entrepreneur of innovative technology companies.
Most recently, Mark founded Guardian Circle, an app-based personal safety network that lets friends, family and neighbors protect one other.
His previous companies include The Palace (backed by Time Warner, Intel and SoftBank; sold to Communities.com in 1998 with 10 million users), ZeroDegrees (sold to InterActiveCorp / IAC in 2004 with 1 million users), ThisWeekIn (co-founded with Kevin Pollak and Jason Calacanis), and Mahalo / Inside.com (backed by Elon Musk, Sequoia, Mark Cuban and others). Mark also consulted for several years directly for Travis Kalanick, now CEO of Uber, on his first company Red Swoosh.
His first novel, MAX QUICK: THE POCKET AND THE PENDANT, was published in hardcover and ebook by HarperCollins in May, 2011. The book was initially podcast as a series of episodic mp3's and received over 2.5 million downloads.
Mark Jeffrey holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire and is a TEDx speaker. On Twitter, he is @markjeffrey.