He began the business by developing an online database of public phone directory information.
[5] Algard also created an Internet community called CarDomain Network with a high school friend in 1999.
[7] In 2010 Whitepages' two biggest clients, Yellowpages.com and Superpages.com, cut their expenditures after Google ventured into local business searches.
Algard pledged his assets, savings accounts and his family's home to the bank to raise the extra $30m in capital required for the buyout.
In the spring of 2016, Algard created a new company to identify mobile phone spammers and robocalls and to ensure that important calls were not missed.