Ben Pasternak
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Benjamin Pasternak (born September 6, 1999) is an Australian technology entrepreneur.
He is the founder of Monkey, an American social media company that enables teenagers to video chat with like-minded people.
Monkey was acquired by Chinese social media company Holla for an undisclosed sum.
Ben is recognized as one of the youngest people to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 15.
Ben is currently the founder and CEO of NUGGS, a chicken nugget simulation company, which has raised US$7M in investment to date.
Early life and education
Pasternak was born in Sydney, Australia, to Anna Pasternak and Mark Pasternak. He has a younger brother, Jake, and a younger sister, Maya. Pasternak was raised Jewish in Vaucluse, eastern Sydney and grew up in a custom built, $15.1M home. He was educated at Moriah College and Reddam House.
Pasternak developed a passion for developing software at the age of 13. He designed his first publicly launched mobile app, Impossible Rush, while bored in science class at school. He showed the idea to his online friend Austin Valleskey, an iOS engineer from Chicago. The pair completed building the game in a matter of hours. The game went on to be downloaded millions of times and peaked at No. 16 on the US App Store (iOS) top charts, in front of Tinder and Twitter at the time.
In January 2015, Facebook and Google both offered Pasternak internship opportunities. Months after declining both opportunities, Pasternak dropped out of high school, at the age of 15, and relocated to New York City to accept an offer to receive venture capital funding for his first company, Flogg. Ben was recognized as one of the youngest people to receive a round of venture capital in technology, at the age of 15.
Personal life
Pasternak lives in the Soho neighborhood of New York City.
Career
Pasternak founded Flogg, a social networking service for young people in April 2015. Binary Capital, a venture capital company, was attracted by Pasternak's early success. Binary agreed to lead a round of venture capital investment in Flogg before the app was launched. Other investors, including Greylock Partners, John Maloney, and Paul Bricault, had joined Binary. Flogg was launched in April 2016 and was temporarily the No. 1 in the United Kingdom. On the Apple Store, there is one trending app (iOS). Due to a lack of funds in late 2016, Flogg shuts down.
Ben co-founded Monkey, an app that enabled teenagers to video chat with like-minded individuals in November 2016. Monkey had raised $2 million in funds. The app had more than 20 million users by January 2020 and had enabled over 20 billion calls. The app hit No. 1 on the charts. 1 on the App Store in the United States (iOS). Holla, a social media firm, announced on December 1, 2017 that it had acquired Monkey for an undisclosed sum.
SIMULATE was founded by Ben in early 2018. SIMULATE's aim is to help the world move to healthy eating. NUGGS, SIMULATE's first product, is a chicken nugget simulation made from plant inputs. Bloomberg reported that SIMULATE had raised over US$50 million in funding from investors including Alexis Ohanian's venture fund Seven Seven Seven Six, Chris Sacca, McCain Foods, and Jay-Z at over a US$250 million estimate in June 2021.