Anthony Perkins’ Curriculum Vitae

Tony is a Silicon Valley OG and the brands he helped create—SVB, Churchill Club, Red Herring, AlwaysOn, and now Cryptonite have been championing clever entrepreneurs since the birth of the Internet.

At the beckoning of Sean Parker, Graffiti artist David Choe agreed to paint colorful murals throughout the first Facebook office for $60,000 in initial Facebook stock. At Facebook’s IPO in 2012, Mr. Choe’s stock was worth $200 million, and today would be worth over $1.3 billion.

Cryptonite — Take Back the Power

Tony Perkins is a Silicon Valley Original Gangster and pioneering media entrepreneur. As founder and editor of Cryptonite, Tony is pursuing his life-long dream of connecting entrepreneurs and investors operating in the ‘global Silicon Valley’ onto a trusted social network. Once launched in 2003, Cryptonite will be the first Web3 social network in the world that allows content creators to own and control their content and build new wealth through crypto rewards. Cryptonite is proud to play a role in showcasing a booming new generation of AI-powered, decentralized applications, creating a more private and secure world. Tony believes, ‘The best days for the global Silicon Valley are yet to come!’ He has forecasted that Web3 represents $100 trillion of new wealth opportunity.

Red Herring Magazine — The Business of Innovation

Before Cryptonite, Tony founded Red Herring magazine. The Herring chronicled the entrepreneurs and investors pioneering the commercialization of the Internet boom in the 1990s and reached a paid subscriber base of over 600,000. The Wall Street Journal described the Red Herring as the “bible of the Internet.”

During his tenure at Red Herring, Tony interviewed most entrepreneurial leaders championing the early Internet, including Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Netscape founders Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen, and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang. He also interviewed the most influential venture capitalists funding the Internet, including Sequoia Capital founder Don Valentine, who seed-funded Apple and Google, and Tom Perkins and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. They seed-funded Genentech, Amazon, and Google. In the heat of the 2000 U.S. Presidental race, Tony spent two hours with future President George W. Bush, who said Tony’s interview was the ‘most insightful and thorough’ conducted during the campaign. Red Herring’s most famous intern was then Stanford University student Peter Theil. Peter went on to co-found PayPal and Palantir and give Mark Zuckerberg his first seed investment.

The January 1996 cover interview by Tony in Red Herring magazine. Eleven months later — in a stunning move — Apple announced it would purchase Next Software for $400 million and brought Steve Jobs back to the company he co-founded.

During this time, Tony co-authored with his brother Michael, The Internet Bubble: Inside the Overvalued World of High-Tech Stocks” (HarperBusiness, 1999). This internationally best-selling book foretold the dot-com bust.

AlwaysOn — Where the sun is always rising

During the 2000s, Tony was the founder and editor of the global events and blog brand, AlwaysOn. The company produced entrepreneurial summits at Stanford University, NASDAQ’s headquarters in New York City, Hollywood, and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he served as a Media Leader for ten years. AlwaysOn focused on connecting entrepreneurs in the media, entertainment, cloud, and Greentech industries with venture investors and major corporate partners. The AlwaysOn annual global Top 250 private companies list was world-renowned for highlighting the top technology companies before they became popularly known.

The Core Cryptonite team produced the AlwaysOn top 250 private company list from 2003 to 2015. Out of the 1,483 unique companies that made the AO 250 list, 572 companies were successfully acquired, and 192 companies went public, representing a 52 percent exit rate to date.

YouTube CoFounder Chad Hurley is trying to answer our question on how he expected YouTube to make money at the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford on July 26, 2006, just seven months after he and John Chen had founded the company. After pondering for a while, Chad eventually said he didn’t know and was quite satisfied with his answer.

While operating AwaysOn, Tony hosted and interviewed Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg (when he was 20 years old), Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, Skype founder Nicholas Zennstrom, YouTube founder Chad Hurley, Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify, Twitter and Square founder, Jack Dorsey, Zoom founder, Eric Yuan, and Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Shimon Perez.

When Google bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.7 billion after only a little more than a year in business, an event widely perceived as the mark of the top of the Wed 2.0 bubble, which ended up not being the case.

Taking rap social. Tony with Chamillionaire, MC Hammer, and Mista Fab in 2006 talked about how social networking allows artists to take back significant power from the music label Goliaths.

While Tony describes himself as an entrepreneur first, he has been a prolific writer, public speaker, and television commentator. In addition to contributing to the brands he created, Tony has written editorial columns for the Wall Street Journal and Wired, spoken at industry events worldwide, and has been a regular live-on-air commentator for CNN and MSNBC.

Before becoming a media entrepreneur and writer, Tony joined Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) at its inception and cofounded its Technology Group. SVB has grown into a $200 billion asset bank serving technology entrepreneurs worldwide. He also founded the 10,000-member non-profit Churchill Club, Silicon Valley’s most prominent speaker’s forum that has hosted almost every technology executive of significance, Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, and other prominent world leaders.