In 2004, FourCubed founder and CEO, Chris Carlson, left his job as a research analyst to see if he could turn his love for online poker into a business venture. After locking himself in a New York hotel room for six weeks, he emerged triumphant debuting raketracker.com, a first-of-its-kind website in the poker performance marketing space that served as an aggregator of statistics from dozens of online poker platforms.
As Chris’ venture increased, so did his vision. Focused on becoming an industry leader in the online gaming performance marketing space, FourCubed’s services and team continued to grow over the years.
2004
2005
2006
2007
Chris began supplementing his income by playing poker and decided to leave his analyst job to pursue a career path in Internet marketing.
Chris relocated from New York to Minnesota, opened CCRT following the successful launch of raketracker.com and hired his first employee. Currently, raketracker.com has more than 11,000 members.
yourpokercash.com (YPC), which offers a free starting amount of money to casual poker players, was built and launched. Currently, YPC services more than 500,000 members.
affiliateEV.com (AEV) the predecessor to PAS was built and launched. YPC hit 100,000 members.
2008
2009
2010
2011
CCRT was renamed FourCubed. pokeraffiliatesolutions.com (PAS), another first-of-its-kind website that replaced AEV, was built and launched. More than 40 percent of the top 100 performance marketing poker websites in Google is serviced by PAS. The website currently supports more than 6,000 publishers and services more than 100,000 members.
Version two of PAS was launched. YPC hit 300,000 members. PAS hit 2,000 publishers and 30,000 members.
Version three of PAS was launched. FourCubed acquired page10, one of the top 25 web development and design firms in the Twin Cities, to leverage its project management and web expertise.
FourCubed was ranked #1,678 on Inc.’s 2011 500/5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the country (#159 in the advertising/marketing industry nationwide). Locally, the company was ranked #27 on the list of fastest-growing Minneapolis-based private companies.
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In 2004, FourCubed founder and CEO, Chris Carlson, left his job as a research analyst to see if he could turn his love for online poker into a business venture. After locking himself in a New York hotel room for six weeks, he emerged triumphant debuting raketracker.com, a first-of-its-kind website in the poker performance marketing space that served as an aggregator of statistics from dozens of online poker platforms.
As Chris’ venture increased, so did his vision. Focused on becoming an industry leader in the online gaming performance marketing space, FourCubed’s services and team continued to grow over the years.