About Nick Gray: Businessman, Investor, and Author

About Nick Gray: Businessman, Investor, and AuthorNick2020-07-25T16:18:38-04:00

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I’m a 38 year-old American man living in New York City. Founder of Museum Hack (sold 2019) and former Partner at Flight Display Systems (sold 2014).

I’VE BEEN FEATURED IN

FEATURE ARTICLES

Bloomberg Businessweek: Reaching Fresh Audiences
New York Times: Get the Most Out of a Visit to the Museum
National Trust for Historic Preservation: 40 Under 40: People Saving Places
My TEDx: How I learned to stop hating and love museums, by Nick Gray
Lifehacker: I’m Nick Gray, Founder of Museum Hack, and This Is How I Work

RECENT PROJECTS

MY BLOG

I write about business, investing, my hobbies, and travel

MY TRAVEL VIDEOS

Watch some short fun videos that I make for my friends

FRIENDS NEWSLETTER

Find out why CEOs, investors, and museum curators love my emails

THE $10,000,000 QUESTION

If I had $10M, how would I live my life differently? How would you?

INVESTOR RELATIONS FIRMS

I couldn’t find a good database or list of investor relations firms in NYC. So I made my own.

NORMANDIE PANELS BY JEAN DUPAS

I maintain this de facto online resource as a hobby project

MY BEST ARTICLES

Check out a few of my favorite business articles

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES

Investing for yield? I am curious about BDCs. Here’s where I share my notes on them.

I have spent the last 17 years habitually over-sharing my life on the internet. As such, you will find hundreds of unflattering photographs and video clips of me. I make no apologies for this. But trust that I will be ever as charming, and three times as attractive, when we meet in the flesh.

A Brief History of Nick Gray (That’s Me)

2020 Writing about business development companies and investor relations firms.
2019 I sold Museum Hack. Read about how, and to whom.
2015 ELLE.COM’S 41 MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELORS I was ranked 40 out of 41, so I guess I’m not the absolute worst.
2013 Museum Hack gives museum tours for people who don’t like museums (Founder, Tour Guide)
2011 BollyBrook Brooklyn Meets Bollywood Music Video (Producer, Creator)
2009 New York magazine: Meet Nick Gray, Thrower of ‘Culturally Significant’ Williamsburg Parties
2004 Flight Display Systems (family business, sold 2014)
2003 BuddyGopher (founder) — full page articles in USA Today, Washington Post
2001 American Pie 2 (Eugene Levy junket interview!)
1997 vs3 Web Services (web hosting business I started in high school)

KEYWORDS TO ME

Texas, Georgia, New York City • Wake Forest University, Clark High School and Forsyth Central High School, Hendrick Middle, Matthews Elementary • BuddyGopher, vs3 Web Services, TechnoTeen, GIF Animation Station • Arden Lake, Hunter’s Glen and Grove Park subdivisions in Kennesaw and Cumming, Georgia; Plano, Texas; and Mission Viejo, California. • I was an actor in the movie American Pie 2; you can see my six word performance on the DVD in the deleted scenes section. • My interview with Eugene Levy and Williamsburg, Brooklyn tea parties (not the political kind).