Andrew Paradise

Andrew Paradise, a serial founder and entrepreneur with multiple exits who now leads a company listed on the NYSE. He follows a precise pattern: spot a market before it exists, build the infrastructure for it, and prove the skeptics wrong. He created mobile self-checkout with AisleBuyer and sold it to Intuit, and his most recent company, Skillz, pioneered a $15 billion category. Skillz is now FIRY (NYSE: FIRY). A quick primer, since the name may be new to you: FIRY is a holding company built around three businesses that all serve game developers and share data to make each other smarter: a real-money, skill-based gaming platform, an AI-powered ad-tech engine, and developer infrastructure. Andrew built and owns the AI infrastructure behind it and trains it on proprietary data that no com...