Alex Tew (born 1984) is a British entrepreneur and the co-founder of the meditation app Calm.
He began meditating when he was fourteen and he frequently read books about concentration, memory, and cognition.
[2] After the success of The Million Dollar Homepage in 2005, Tew began several internet ventures including Pixelotto, which sold advertising space on websites.
[2] In late 2008, he made a Flash game called Sock and Awe, a gamified version of the George W. Bush shoeing incident.
[3] Tew moved to San Francisco and in 2012, along with Michael Acton Smith, he co-founded Calm, a company that currently operates a meditation app.