[1] He previously worked at Apple Computer on Hypercard development, founded startups in online marketing and social media and held executive positions at Nokia Corporation and Google.

Brøndmo was born in Waterville, Maine, but moved before the age of one to Norway where he grew up outside of the town of Hønefoss, northwest of Oslo.

He was educated in public schools and served a year in the Norwegian military before returning to the United States to study computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[5] Diva, which was the first commercial spin-off from Media Lab, developed a Macintosh-based video editing program known as VideoShop and was acquired by Avid Technology in 1993.

[8] Brondmo went on to start Plum Ventures in 2005, a social networking service intended for small groups of friends and family.