Some of these prior efforts also involved the same approach of finding and partnering with existing developers, Decrem notes, including the original Tap Tap Revenge developer.
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The latter landed him at Disney following an acquisition, as the head of the mobile games group, which put out products like the “Where’s My Water” series and some “Temple Run” titles. He later went on to more entrepreneurial efforts including the VC-backed social web browser Flock (which received its fair share of TechCrunch coverage back in the day), followed by an early smartphone game maker Tapulous, makers of Tap Tap Revenge. He was also a part of the search monetization discussions, including the initial Google search deal. There, he ran marketing and business affairs and worked on branding and the international launch. While others on that project later ended up building Safari and other technology at Apple, Decrem found himself at the Mozilla Foundation ahead of the Firefox 1.0 launch.
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In ’99, Decrem worked on a Linux startup called Eazel which aimed to make Linux easier to use. The new Mammoth founder’s background is both in open source and consumer apps, in addition to entrepreneurship.
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Mammoth is a free Mastodon app for iOS that makes it easier to get started And while the total investment round is undisclosed, Decrem characterized the pre-seed as a small amount - “a million or two is the general round” at this stage, he says. Now, the team at Mammoth is just three full-time employees and a handful of contractors. Mammoth was the result of those efforts, but it has since been acquired by the company that’s now running the project, led by principal developer Bart Decrem. The latter was impacted by Elon Musk’s Twitter API changes, which put an end to third-party Twitter clients, prompting Mehboob to turn his attention to the decentralized and open source Twitter alternative Mastodon. The app was originally built by iOS developer Shihab Mehboob, the creator behind a number of apps, including the whimsical music app Vinyls and the Twitter client Aviary 2.
The company has a unique founding story as well.
The company confirmed that its leading pre-seed investor is Mozilla, a proponent of the open web, which invested in the company’s first general round alongside others, including Long Journey Ventures and Salesforce’s Marc Benioff. Mammoth, a recently launched Mastodon app that’s trying to make it easier on users who want to join the decentralized social web, has a notable financial backer.
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