Howdy 👋🏼

I’m Nick Gray. Most people know me as the Founder of Museum Hack.

I hate museums. That’s why I started Museum Hack. It was featured in a popular TEDx talk. Then I grew it to a multi-million dollar business.

In 2018, I removed myself as CEO and put Tasia in charge.

Then in 2019, I sold Museum Hack in an interesting way. It starts with a juicy takeover; read the story here.

In my 20s (I’m 39 now), I helped build and grow our family business.

My father started Flight Display Systems in the basement of our house. The company made avionics equipment for private jets and military aircraft.

I helped grow it to 70+ employees by leading our hiring, marketing, and international sales.

My mother was our CFO. It really was a family business! Then we sold it. My parents sold it, really. I wasn’t much involved in the sale. I had moved on to start Museum Hack.

Please note: I have spent the last 23 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.

In middle school, I designed simple HTML websites for Texas companies. It felt neat to be 14 years old and making $70 per hour.

In high school, I started a web hosting company called vs3 Web Services. I got really lucky: if you searched on Yahoo! for the phrase “cheap web hosting,” my page was the first one to show up. That helped pay for my college.

I went to Wake Forest University in North Carolina. I was a member of the Lilting Banshees Comedy Troupe.

One project that I worked on in college got a lot of press:

BuddyGopher was like a blog for away messages on AOL Instant Messenger. We had thousands of daily users and full-page features in USA Today, the Washington Post, and more.

Anyhow. I guess I spent my 20s largely alone and working on our family business.

Then I spent my 30s in the hustle and bustle of New York City, launching and growing Museum Hack.

Now I’m 39, like I said, and I recently left New York City.

I never thought I’d say that — “I left New York City” — but this pandemic is wild.

I moved to Texas and I run a small family office, as one does, I guess.

I wonder what I’ll do with my 40s. I have some ideas! But let’s see.

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Like a great business book, an amazing Netflix show, or a great new tech gadget to share.

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(I don’t like unlinked sources.)