Daniel Yomtobian

Daniel Yomtobian was born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, where he spent his childhood living with his parents and an older sister. Daniel’s father emigrated from Iran as a teenager and his mother, who was born in Hungary, moved to the U.S. around the same time. Growing up, Daniel and his family endured financial hardships. As such, he learned at a very young age to work hard and be self-sufficient by following the example of his father, a relentless businessman, and his mother, a social worker. Daniel began contributing to the family’s income by helping out in his father’s printing store during the summer months.

Like most teenage boys, Daniel was interested in sports. He especially enjoyed karate, soccer, and football—he even made the high school football team. Daniel was extremely disciplined for his age: he studied during the day and worked at night as a bag boy at the community supermarket in order to support his family. During his high school years, Daniel’s mother bought him his first computer. He was keen to understand computers as well as the ins and outs of the newly emerging World Wide Web, and so he educated himself on these topics in his spare time.

By the time Daniel graduated high school, his father had started to get involved in a number of online domain name investments. Inspired by this, Daniel began to explore the Internet industry for himself. On top of his daytime job, he attended business courses at the local university and started to experiment with website creation and design. In his early days as a web designer, Daniel worked for small companies from a variety of industries. He constantly developed his computer skills and eventually started to buy and sell dictionary-based domain names. Daniel soon realized that creating websites was only the first step: He saw a more lucrative opportunity in strategically place links for businesses and driving more visitors to their websites.

Daniel found early success in his business model, and decided that online advertising was where his career would take off. He soon co-founded WayInternet, an online media and advertising company, as well as the search engine Findology. However, in 2001 he founded his most successful business: ABCSearch.com, one of the Internet’s leading providers of cost-per-click searches. In 2009, ABCSearch.com was rebranded as Advertise.com, the company he leads today.

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