Built for the world after AI.
Two guys who spent their careers building things people play with and watch, now building for what comes next.
The world just changed. People didn't.
AI rewrote the rules of growing up, working, shopping, playing, and being known, in a couple of years, for everyone. Most of what's being built for that world is designed to do more for people. We think the better question is what leaves people more capable: sharper, safer, more generous, more in control of their own time.
That's the bet SideQuest is built on. Every product we run exists because a real person needed it, a parent, a browser, a shopper, a gamer, a reader, and because we believe technology and media should leave people better off than it found them.
The detours are where you level up.
In the games we grew up on, the main story is only half of it. The side quests are where you pick up the better tools, the extra skills, the map to the next area: optional detours that make you stronger for everything that follows.
Life after AI is the main quest now. We build the side quests: the tools, stories and rewards that help people and their kids come out of it more capable, not less. Different products, one conviction.
Twenty years of friendship. One company.
Mike Wann
Multi-exit entrepreneur. CEO of Mobcrush (acquired by Super League, Nasdaq, 2021), Head of Strategy at Tastemade, and CRO of Fullscreen (acquired by Warner Media, 2014).
Ryan Hoffman
Founder of multiple mar-tech companies with exits. Founder and CEO of RSS Graffiti (acquired by Demand Media), General Manager of Search at Demand Media through its 2011 NYSE IPO, and an early investor in Oculus (acquired by Meta).
We've known each other for almost twenty years, and SideQuest is the first thing we've built together. Between us: games, streaming, video, search, VR, two decades of building the things people spend their time on. SideQuest is what we think that time should be worth.
Built to serve people at scale.
Monthly active gamers in the SideQuest Network, 200MM+ in the US
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