“Newscorp has always been, for us, very easy to work with and they respect our opinions and let us run the site we wanted to. And, in fact, they wanted to keep us on. They weren't saying, hey, let's throw these guys out. They were buying into what MySpace was and the founders, and so it's been very good for me.”

American technology entrepreneur, born 1970s

Tom Anderson is an American technology entrepreneur from the early 21st century, best known as the co-founder of Myspace. He founded the social networking site in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe, later serving as its president and as a strategic adviser. He became widely recognized as “Tom from Myspace,” “Myspace Tom,” or “My friend, Tom” because new users were automatically assigned him as their first friend. His public identity is closely tied to the rise of Myspace and the early culture of social networking.