Biography

At age 12, Chase began flying airplanes with his father in a 2-seater Cessna 152.

Before turning 18, Chase had already grown his first web hosting startup company to hundreds of active customers around the world.

Chase skipped 2 grades in school and graduated at 16 with honors from Santana High School in San Diego, CA and went on to attend 3 years of local community college before dropping out to run his first successful Internet company full-time.

At age 23, Chase founded the online video startup "Webmercials" and began producing small-scale local business commercials. After a mediocre launch, the startup was rolled into his larger online advertising agency.

Chase is related to Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby and Pokey and an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation.